Doll House

"It's an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose, they can only be chosen. They cannot do, they can only be done by." -Rumer Godden, "The Dolls' House"

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hi. i was a big fan of the boogeyman storyline, and it's nice to see you're still going at it. i know it can be hard, but oh well. life sorta shits on you every now and then. was wondering on getting to know you better actually? i know it's a random thing to ask but the question's out there.

I don’t know about Boogeyman Storyline but I’ll still respond to this.

Yeah sorry for the long period of inactivity. But yeah....life does dump and it can dump hard. Between jobs and dealing with mental health things haven’t been the best.

When I started this blog and development, I was on medication for mental heath but I went off of it and....let’s just say I probably shouldn’t have done that. I’m trying to get my butt back in gear and to do that I need to find myself a new doctor and get myself back on medication. Once that is going then I can start getting my ducks in a row and perhaps one day get this game done.

tl:dr If you are taking medication for mental health don’t drop it, your work WILL suffer. The suffering artist trope is complete BS. Take care of yourself first.

[paper-mario-wiki]

this is really frickin neato

[doll-house-project]

hey.. are you alright? you haven't updated your tumblr in awhile..

I’m alright it’s just....a lot going on in my life right now.

Currently I’m only employed part time on a as need basis so any time I’m not working I’m searching for full time employment. That’s been my main priority.

Sadly, this has zapped most of my motivation to work on the game. I get home and I only have the energy to do smaller projects. It’s been a problem of mine if a project has gone on for a long time, motivation to keep going plummets severely. 

There were also computer problems that has trouble some but I’ve gotten a new laptop (it’s a gaming one so it’s good).

Lastly, what I have manage have been rather......spoilery. I’ve been browsing other artist’s projects to see how they can keep providing content while not giving to much away and it has been giving me some ideas.

This past year has been rough with my employment situation and dealing with Hurricane Harvey on top of other family obligations but hopefully you will see something from me in the coming weeks.

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Last picture update for the day (didn’t have work so I was able to focus for a long time). So glad I gave the portraits an update because Franz is now a lot easier to draw.

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Working on a character redesign for a character that is in chapter 2. I felt that her previous design was too simple especially when compared to the rest of the cast. So I found a old sketch of Odette here and combined elements from that with the outfit I had her in. Now to think about the color palate. 

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Big change is coming and sorry for the lack of updates. Things....happened.

Anyway as part of my updates to the art is that I want to change how I’m doing the character portraits. I haven’t decided on what kind of shading style I want yet but I want to make all the poses different rather than just the same post with different expressions.

I figured this would be better in the long run as it would be easier to tell what expression is happening at a glance rather than having to look closely at the details. Once I’m done with this I’ll move on to the CGs.

[doll-house-project]

how are you? xx and how is the development for the game going? everything going as planned? xo

EVERYTHING IS NOT GOING TO PLAN RUN!!!!!!

But in all honesty work on it is rather sporadic as I’m juggling a lot of things right now and my computer has been giving me some issues that makes me rather nervous working on the files in fear of loosing them.

[doll-house-project]

I CANNOT WAAAAAAAAAAIT FOR THE GAME TO COME OUT OMFG. I seriously LOVE LOVE LOOOOOOVE rpg games, especially when it's about dolls!!1!!!1!

I love dolls too! I am working as hard as I can so please do keep an eye out for updates!

[doll-house-project]

There we go! Updated turnarounds of Coppelia and Franz!

My art style changed so much.....

I’m going to have to redraw.....everything...

[doll-house-project]

Happy Late Christmas everyone! It’s winter break so that means more time to myself! My next goal is working on art assets and to prepare for that I’m making a updated turn around of Coppelia which in hindsight really should of been done when I started work.......This will give me an updated look for Coppelia and will make a better reference and color pallet when I’m done. There will be one for Franz too.

[doll-house-project]

how are you doing?

To be honest, wish I had more time to myself. I’m busy with work that leaves me rather creatively exhausted but I really want to keep working on Doll House.

[pixelartus]

+40 Pixel Art Tutorials

A growing collection of animated Pixel Art Tutorials by Pedro Medeiros (@saint11) of Studio Miniboss (they previously worked on TowerFall and are currently working on Celeste and Skytorn)

All +40 Pixel Art Tutorials can be found on blog.studiominiboss.com/pixelart (10 Pixel Art Tutorials are posted below)

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Not the pixel style I use but still very helpful information that’s worth sharing.

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Important update

As you my have heard, Hurricane Harvey has hit Texas and has hit Houston. Unfortunately, that’s where I am. My house thankfully escaped damaged but many friends have not. I won’t be working on the game until most of the clean up efforts have finished since I plan to help with those and to be honest, I can’t really focus on working on the game at this time. Thank you for understanding.

If you want to help, just donate to the charity of your choice. We’ll take anything at this point.

[doll-house-project]

Seriously considering remapping the third level. I feel like it’s not at the same level as the first two. Also coding wise that’s where a lot of the variables for the multiple endings kick in so that’s going to be fun to figure out......

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Revisiting childhood by rewatching that famous Princess Tutu amv Hall Om Mig and now I really want to draw Coppelia and Franz doing ballet! 

*smacks head on desk and sobs* But I’ve got coding to do!!!!!!!

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Current progress

Main story coding on floor two done. One cutscene needs some debugging and reworking due to a script rewrite. Floor three layout is starting but I’ll need to make a lot more pixel art due to being some very unique rooms located there. Also need to refresh my memory on some coding work due to the fact that I need to start coding the multiple endings very soon.

[doll-house-project]

Good progress was made today...great way to kick off the summer break.