Charming Monsters the game

The blog for Charming Monsters the game, a Visual Novel based on the boy's love webcomic. Stay tuned for info on the progress of the development, screencaps, art, music and much more!

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Inktober day 3. Jaehee is a precious angel. Enjoy the week of MM inktober! #inktober #mysticmessenger #mysticmessengerjaehee

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2nd Inktober, this time the cutie Yoosung! All this week will be Mystic Messenger art. #inktober #mysticmessenger #mysticmessengeryoosung

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Remember, last week of inktober will be charmon, meanwhile enjoy the fanart!

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1st inktober post! Every week it will be about a different fandom & this week it’s Mystic Messenger. Patrons will get to pick a piece every week to turn into a full illustration. #inktober #mysticmessenger #mysticmessengerzen

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I haven’t touched real pens in years so this month is gonna be a challenge!

All October I’ll be drawing:

- Mystic Messenger

- Steven Universe

- Mob Psycho 100%

- Siklo and Charming Monsters (original).

Become a Patron to vote on the finished pieces, or hit the inbox in this blog to sugest ideas for inktober!

https://www.patreon.com/thooruchan

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I’ll be doing Inktober stuff for Charmon the last week, meanwhile enjoy the fanart!

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Hello guys.

In my quest for fighting unemployment and homelessness, I have launched a Patreon.

Take a look at it and see if you can support me! You will get exclusive content such as streams, tutorials, merchandise, heavy discounts on merchandise & commissions, and much more!

Join me on making games and spread the word!

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This will be the official Patron for Charming Monsters, so if you want to enjoy exclusive content and perks, see about contributing and spreading the word as much as you can!

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TBH I would have liked to start working on the new version of the demo as soon as the jam was finished, but I’ve been struggling with health issues that have kept me away from it. I still don’t know when I’ll be able to get to it, but I managed to break a bit of my block and a little sketch to make sure I haven’t forgotten how to draw.

So here is Noel fighting with his mess of curly hair. I feel his pain every day.

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I know the quality is subpar, but I wanted to share this happy moment.

Charming Monsters is now playable on android devices!

It's been a matter that has caused me many headaches but now that it's fixed I can focus on making the game better without worrying about technicalities.

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Hello dear followers!

FIrst of all, we’d like to welcome all new followers and thank everyone who has downloaded and played the demo released for yaoijam. We hope you liked it, we’d love to hear your opinion and hit our inbox any time.

Now, the next steps we are taking with charmon is working on a 1.2 demo version with all the features we want the game to have.

We will work on a new GUI, finish and add backgrounds and CG, touch up the writting and make sure everything is 100% the best it can be!

We are planning on a demo release for Halloween, exactly on the 4th anniversary of the webcomic’s debut.

As you can see on the second picture up there, we are porting charmon to a new engine that will allow us mobile and browser porting, so you can play it on the go if you please. Isn’t that cool?

We want to share our fun and excitement as we work on it, so we are opening up our picarto channel to all of you, and from now on we will be streaming regularly as we work on game art and other promotional images, as well as tutorials and other fun stuff.

We’d like to launch our first stream next week, but before we dedice on a date and time, we’d like to know when would be the best time for you guys, since we don’t want you to miss it!

When would you like the streams to be?

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Shoot some asks!

The inbox is now open (I'm  an idiot and didn’t notice it wasn’t before) so feel free to send us some asks.

If you send something to the characters they’ll reply with  little doodle :)

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Shoot some asks!

The inbox is now open (I'm  an idiot and didn't notice it wasn't before) so feel free to send us some asks.

If you send something to the characters they'll reply with  little doodle :)

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The demo for Charming Monsters is OUT!

It was quite the journey, but we made it in time for the YaoiJam! We had to leave out stuff we would have liked to include in the demo, and leave other in a sort of unfinished state, so this can be considered a beta demo, but we are already pretty excited to work on polishing it and releasing a finished version once the jam is over :3

Meanwhile, we encourage you all to try Charming Monsters and let us know what you think of it, what you’d like to see added, what you think could be improved.

The end of the Jam is not the finish line, just the beginning!

You can download the demo at our Itch.io Page

If you have an itch.io account, please vote for Charming Monsters!

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Go and download, play, watch, comment, share and rate Charming Monsters right now!

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Opening the ren’py files and realizing I forgot how to do all of this...

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They might be charming but they are still monsters;

Only five days left for the end of Yaoijam and working hard to finish the demo.

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Deadline Extended to Aug. 7th!

After a twitter poll, we decided to extend Yaoi Game Jam for another week!

But, it’s okay to not have a finished game by the deadline! 

You can always submit a demo and/or finish the game later on. Message us if you want your game in the itch.io collection even after the deadline! And don’t fear if you just heard about yaoijam just now, we will have another Yaoi Game Jam next year!

Thanks for everyone who’s participating and good luck to all finishing their games!

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More time to work on the CGs! :D

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So, the jam is on its last leg, but sadly development has slowed down for charmon. I suffer migraines and backpains which have flared up since friday to the point I had to stop working my regular 9-6 job. Working on my computer for more than a couple hours makes my neck hurt and I get nausea-inducing migraines as well as hip pains and etc.

This means i don’t know if I’ll be able to get the demo finished in time or if I’ll have time to implement all the changes I wanted. I’ll keep you guys updated on any new developments.

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Let's add to this my niece hit me yesterday (she's a baby with a surprisingly long reach) and I got my retina scratched. It hurts and it's swollen and i gotta put drops and gunky lotion on it every few hours and I can't see much qt all. Hopefully I'll get better in a couple days and idk pull off a last-minute miracle crunch. Here is a random sprite

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So, the jam is on its last leg, but sadly development has slowed down for charmon. I suffer migraines and backpains which have flared up since friday to the point I had to stop working my regular 9-6 job. Working on my computer for more than a couple hours makes my neck hurt and I get nausea-inducing migraines as well as hip pains and etc.

This means i don't know if I'll be able to get the demo finished in time or if I'll have time to implement all the changes I wanted. I'll keep you guys updated on any new developments.

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This week has been pretty uneventful and I’ve been essentially working through my sprite list, and here are some of my favorites so far.

What do you people think?

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Status Update

We have reached the equator of the Yaoi Jam 2016 edition, and here we are! After re-designing some of the characters (especially the siblings!), here is the current status for the demo:

Script: 85% done Sound: 80% done Backgrounds: 100% done Sprites: 30% done CG: 15% done

That's 60% done, with half of the time left, so  we are going to keep working hard for the next four weeks :D