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[zmakesgames]

Hello,

I am making this post because as of late, I, my friends and loved ones have been harassed. Vinca @flor4zul / @iso7010 / 4Nil on Itch.io , a developer who I have spoken to in the past has been accusing me of transmisogyny and anti-blackness. She first sent me a message message in the middle of the night calling me out and telling me to rot over a scene found in my game, Mare.

Mare by Zmakesgames

What is it I can't remember?

Spoilers for Mare:

Trigger warning for Transphobia, Transmisogyny, use of a Transphobic slur, Bullying, Violence and attempted suicide

Document will contain text of wishing someone's death and harm to an individual.

My experience with Vinca

Hello, I am making this post because as of late, I, my friends and loved ones have been harassed. Vinca @flor4zul / @iso7010 , a developer

Once more, I ask even with what I have provided here that you do not harass Vinca or their friends. While they have hurt me, I do not endorse hurting others in turn.

[artfromsaturn]

I don’t know how many pictures of Holly from @hogwashdev agricultura I will draw but i ain’t stopping now

[game-meak]

Fissure v.0.01 is Live!  Download from itch.io

I can feel in my heart that I will not make much within the next 5 days, so I’ve decided to just upload what I have at this point to the Dream Diary Jam.  It’s nothing too fancy, mostly still me attempting to wrangle RMVX Ace again, but it’s updated!

Now Featuring:

MC with an Actual Name

The game now informs you when you’ve gotten something (!!!)

5 ADAPT (effects)

3 Hub Worlds

4 additional nested worlds

An additional window theme

There’s still no end state, though.  Thank you for checking it out, though!

[daiko-dev]

agricultura update 09

a solarpunk farming sim

1) the shop screen is nearly complete! a few things like the buying and selling of produce haven’t been implemented yet, but this is a major milestone to reach!

2) you can also go to bed now and progress to the next day! these two mechanics being complete is a load off my shoulders. the game is slowly becoming playable

thanks for reading

• twitter // https://twitter.com/hogwashdev

[daiko-dev]

BTW sorry my goofy ass hasn’t posted for like 6 months i had an intense job and then yeah

tryin’ to stick to a saturday posting schedule from now on but???

[daiko-dev]

agricultura update 09

a solarpunk farming sim

1) the shop screen is nearly complete! a few things like the buying and selling of produce haven’t been implemented yet, but this is a major milestone to reach!

2) you can also go to bed now and progress to the next day! these two mechanics being complete is a load off my shoulders. the game is slowly becoming playable

thanks for reading

• twitter // https://twitter.com/hogwashdev

[daiko-dev]

new year, new twitter icon

here’s to agricultura’s development throughout 2020!

[manda-no-yume]

[daiko-dev]

agricultura update 08

a solarpunk farming sim

01) holly arrives at Yatakang’s west station! also known as “the city of rivers”, Yatakang has a reputation for its unique public transportation -- people hail water taxis! west station in particular is a popular stop point for passengers to board and be ferried throughout the maze-like tributaries and waterways of this trendy, welcoming metropolis

02) AgSec is a company officially licensed by the government of Huanjing to be a supplier of seeds and receiver of produce for the nation’s farmers. the robot who works behind the register seems friendly, if a little goofy. could holly be interested in making friends with him?

thanks for reading

• twitter // https://twitter.com/hogwashdev

[daiko-dev]

could i ask how you managed to put in animated talk sprites? its really cool and id like to try it to! THO GOSH, THIS GAME LOOKS REALLY GOOD IVE BEEN FOLLOWING FOR A WHILE AND EACH UPDATE GETS ME SHAKING, i wish u good luck on development! waves pom poms

😭 thank you so much!!!

maybe i could make a standalone tutorial of animated talk sprites if enough people asked for it, but the simple explanation is that i’m just using rpg maker 2003′s Show Picture spritesheet feature (which i explain in-depth here) !

[daiko-dev]

holly speaks the language of her people

[daiko-dev]

agricultura update 07

a solarpunk farming sim

• twitter // https://twitter.com/hogwashdev

details about this update below the cut:

01) the animation when entering holly’s house has been sped up, and the “exit” box looks nicer! also, you can look at different things in the house now, such as holly’s room

02) as holly learns to take better care of herself and find things that make her happy, her bedroom will slowly get more decoration

03) i made the choice to switch her talk sprite to something smaller and more easy to animate! the simpler sprite means i can give her more animated & visually interesting expressions (it’s also much less time consuming!). i hope you like it!

thanks for reading

[daiko-dev]

agricultura title text drafts! do you have a preference? vote here if you want:

https://twitter.com/hogwashdev/status/1177719668980748290

[daiko-dev]

thanks for the q’s everybody! asks are always open but i figured i’d answer some tonight 🤘

[daiko-dev]

I simply LOVE the entire aesthetic and concept! I can't wait to play it, I hope you keep working at it! Are you planning on adding more characters and places to go? Also, it would be cool if you could add *permaculture* mechanics to fit the solarpunk theme, like growing certain plants together makes them easier to maintain/grow or have better quality... I'm not a game dev so I'm not sure how hard would it be, just throwing out an idea! Again, I love it, and good luck with the development!

thank you so much!! holly will have 4 friends she can make, and meeting them all is one requirement for the golden ending.

yes, there are three towns!: yatakang, (the trendy commercial city) neo peking (the capital, where you unlock things for your farm) and tiangong (the urban seaside city). there’s a secret fourth optional location, as well

plants contributing certain nutrients to the soil was a planned concept up until very recently. the way it would have worked was that certain plants have adjacency bonuses to other plants, improving their quality. it would have cost somewhere around triple the number of variables that the planting system uses on its own right now, so it unfortunately had to be scrapped :-(

again, thanks a bunch for following the project and for the supportive words! i’ll try to make it a game worth playing 💪

[daiko-dev]

My question to oh lord hoggy the great, what kind of plants are going to be available to farm, what meals can we cook, can we date Pico

is this who i think it is………

i listed every type of plant in the game in my previous update, but the only real important distinction between them is in what farm zone they were grown in and if they’re a fruit or a flower! all of these catagories have randomized modifiers that affect their price every 10 in-game days or so (tentatively, the mechanic hasn’t been added yet), so you could have a situation where sunflowers are suddenly in high demand, flowers are in high demand, and anything grown in the meadow farm is in high demand, leading to a sunflower being worth 6 times as much as normal

<:3c as for cooking, it was a planned feature i ended up having to scrap, partially for the sake of development finishing more quickly, but also because i couldn’t really find a way to make it fun with RPG Maker’s limitations. you will be able to collect and sell trading cards and rehabilitate different kinds of fish in your own fish tank, as well as other things! i hope it’ll be enough to keep people interested…

there is no dating mechanic either, but you are free to ship them to your hearts content if you like! i imagined holly would be straight, but that doesn’t come up in the game at all, so go ham

[daiko-dev]

Hello yes my question is who let you be this good at making things and how did you tame the beast known as RPG Maker

this might be an unhelpful answer to some people, but i only know what i know because of what i wanted to make! the first step is having an idea for a game or even a mechanic, and the second step is busting your ass learning exactly how to do it with the tools RPG Maker gives you

if anyone needs a place to start though, i recommend getting real familiar with how variables, switches, and conditional branches work. you can do like, a dillion things once you have that down 👍