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Our Life: Ages

Well, as far as I can tell, this is accurate. So, here y'all go I guess!

The colours coincide with the games btw, and their respective Steps from - 1 to 4. BlueGreen for OLBA, GoldOrange for OLNF.

It doesn't have all the ages, but it has most of the relevant ones presently. I'll probably make another one later with the NF parents and extras too, but I just wanted this one for easy reference atm.

I forgot how to color bruv 🙈

T'is my girl from the mega hit IF infamous by @infamous-if 🥵

I accidentally, somehow, perhaps made a devil walking. And the way she cares about nobody but herself and her so called fame I'm struggling to see how I'll manage to pull any bitches that will be willing to stay at the end.

Definition of don't meet your heroes I'm sorry Maya.

Venera - otherwise Yoshinaga Keiko, the lead vocalist of Double Gum Gun.

Demo Update (April, 24, 2025): Episode 2

Added: +150k (including code + duplicate job scenes with text variations)

TOTAL: 303,452 WORDS

Here is episode 2. The demo is over 300,000 words and since the last update I've learned the trick of separating files so there will likely be errors and maybe some inconsistencies/continuity errors. Please give me a heads up if you do find any error or typo. I will be looking for beta testers in the future. This is my first IF so I'm still learning as I go.

After fixing everything, I remain uncertain about the stats. A large part of me doesn't want visible stats at all since there's so many I can use, limiting myself to a couple is making it difficult to balance them. If anyone has any suggestions from other IFs or from experience, I'm happy to hear them.

In this episode:

See the aftermath of episode 1's cliffhanger.

Get a taste of what work is going to look like now that you're starting...and learn news of a possible promotion opportunity. The seeds of a rivalry are planted.

Meet two new people that may or may not become regular faces in your life.

Meet G (editor route)

Go to a club with your roommates to cheer up.

Play Apt. 502 here.

How can I NOT repost this to my one follower to see i love everything abt this

I have a VISION🥺

Why not share a sketchy, never fully finnished design of my OL1 mc?

Ignroing that comment up there, neither is quite her name lol

The Update is out!

Change of plans, instead of updating "soon", I've just updated it right now. The chapter was complete, I'd fixed all of my beta reader's reported errors... The only thing left to do was get it out to you guys. So here it is, you can play Track 3 of Press Play right here.

It's 81k words excluding code, bringing the entire game up to 200k words. I encourage you to try a lot of different things, because this chapter is the branchiest yet, and you may be surprised by what you find can happen. In this chapter, you will...

go to a party (or stay home)

record your first song... and then another!

get the chance to reach a truce with that one shadow from your past

have a cozy Christmas dinner with your friends and family

get your career boosted by a completely unexpected opportunity

...and lots more!

I'm very excited to share this with you. Also, I guess that this means my askbox needs opening again, which I am slightly reluctant to do after originally wanting a break from it but am going to anyhow. I'm really looking forward to what you have to say! If there's any glaring issues, don't hesitate to reach out. Also also, reblogs help me out a bunch so feel free!

Visual Novels, Sprite Crops, and You

Ridiculously specific thing I'm thinking about (and this is in really broad strokes and will segue later) but something I've noticed is that English Visual Novels tend to have their character sprites cut off around the knees more than I usually see in Japanese VNs, where they'll cut off around the hips or waist (unless characters are supposed to be explicitly standing further away.)

(Screenshots from Hustle Cat, Dream Daddy, and Growing Up's Steam pages)

(Screenshots from Little Busters, Aokana, and White Album's Steam pages)

Obviously this is a huge oversimplification. I've seen lots of EVNs that have sprite crop at the hips or thighs and vice versa.

But I think there's interesting presentation benefits to both methods.

If you crop at the knees, you can see more of the character designs, and probably fit more characters onscreen without it feeling as cramped. That would be useful for third person games, where you'll probably have more than one character on-screen for most of the game, if you decide your main character should have their own sprite when they talk.

The hips method, on the other hand, could make the speaking character feel closer to the camera/an invisible first-person protagonist. I think that could promote a more "intimate" feeling, which could be desirable in romance games.

It also never hurts to experiment with visuals that zoom in and out on the sprites, with varying crops.

(Screenshots from Muv-Luv's VNDB page)

For example, I think Muv-Luv looks fantastic. It positions the characters on a sort of 3D plane, and I remember it having small camera pans. It's useful for immersion, even before it begins showing action sequences. I know it's taxing to direct, but I've always wished more VNs looked like Muv-Luv. It's also a game from 2003, which makes it doubly impressive.

I've heard minori titles like Supipara and eden*, or Type-Moon titles like Mahoutsukai no Yoru or the Tsukihime remake are also a cut above the rest in how "cinematic" they feel, but I have less familiarity with those games (although I'm planning to play them in the future). I'm also running low on space in the post to add many more pictures, and expressing the focus on "movement" in more cinematic VNs is difficult to do with still images.

I don't really have a point to end on, these are just some assorted visual novel thoughts.

Tramell Tillman in SEVERANCE 1.07 // 2.10

Hurried and unfinnished just like my last drawing of my mc from @collegetennisoriginstory 🥵

But also my first drawing just for fun in like 4 months no joke, im rusty now.

After i (hopefully) pretty this one up and finnish the other drawing im contemplating between a drawing of her w someone from the story. Alr thats it i have nothing more interesting to say college tennis updated go play.

Me when I realise I could ppst my our life oc's on here 🍂

Ahhhh!

I'd love to talk abt them. There's also still the step 3 designs I haven't finnished yet.

Anyways, Adam and Donnie are for qiu, Ophelia and Reggie are for Tam!