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We're Millie (24, she/they) and Viktor (20+, he/him), two devs trying to make their first game.

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Hi! We're Millie and Viktor, a two person gamedev team. For now this blog mostly serves to post the progress we're making in our current attempt at making a game!

Our current project is:

♦️ Terrible, Terrible Things

Tags:

terrible terrible things / TTT - official tags for the game

devlog - updates on the development of the game

TTT art - art Viktor made for TTT that he posts on his main blog

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Hello, it's been a while. Life gets in the way but progress still happens when there's time!

A lot of the stuff that got done has to do with scripting and writing, so not much visual updates to offer. But the first part of Gabriel's route is fully scripted and functional :)

Also worked on a system where there's reactions to your "personality" in dialogue, scenes and endings through your dialogue choices. Different endings will lead to their predetermined conclusions, but they will have variations depending on how you've acted.

This is definitely a project we're doing when we have moments out of our daily schedule to dedicate to it, so it goes slowly, but it goes.

Will try to give shorter burst updates like this, even when there's not much visuals to share.

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Devlog Nº2 - some more design stuff and functional UI/menus

With the end of the month arriving, we have some more things to show! We've done a lot of progress and are almost finished with all of the visual and functional part of the ui and menus.

Menus are the least fun part, especially if you want to completely change how they look from the default renpy and are learning how to do it as you go.

Basically rearranging renpy's default organs until it looks the way we want and hopefully not break something along the way.

We've been abusing the hell out of using images as buttons, and where we couldn't figure out how, we went around by making a custom font to replace any text buttons to match the drawn ui. Making a custom font you can type with and renpy would read the file of was another riddle to solve, but we liked how it turned out.

The gallery is (almost) fully functional now and basically on hold waiting for the cgs and endings that will be unlockable, with the characters' profile descriptions also gradually unlocking as you go through their routes.

(These two will still have some more revisions on how they look.)

Now that we have the style and ui as we wanted and have the base for the gallery to be functional, we're getting back to the script coding again!

Before we started posting on here, we already did have the routes fully planned and with one of them have a full finished script, now it's a case of getting started writing the interactable dialogue and choices.

The start of next month is for finishing the prologue and first parts of the routes, and to also work on more sprites and backgrounds to go with the script.

We'll see where that leads.

Until the next one. :)

[vikkzo101]

Some more art i made for the game I'm working on 👁

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Self Reflection..

(1/?)

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Devlog Nº1 - UI and design

♦️ To start with the first devlog we decided to show off some progress we made on the menus, ui and just the visual identity of the game.

Since the game revolves around deciding to, well, doing some terrible things with your new totally stable friends, there's 3 main visuals we ended up going with: crime scene imagery, harsh silhouettes and broken glass.

We messed a lot with the colors since the start . We also messed around to remove and change things about the quick menu that is usually glued to the dialog box in renpy.

Each character also as their own slightly different dialog box personalized to them.

For the main menu, we had a vision of what we wanted (as seen on the previous two images), but it took some tries to get something we were content with.

Tbh, the hardest part was figuring out how to replace all of renpy's default buttons with functioning image buttons. Once that became a case of repeating the same and now familiar process, we wanted to overall the look of the ui instead of sticking to the default of renpy.

Including the preferences menu. The save and load pages are completely different beast, as we are trying to change how they work mechanically, so that'll be for another post when we're more confident we got the effect we want.

And ofc, a gallery as well! Or the start of one, at least.

Ah, the beauty of a concept you throw together in photoshop being turned into an almost functional menu. We're still working on the endings screen and proper cg gallery page, so we'll later on show as the entire gallery menu comes together.

That's it for now, we'll see you for the next devlog once we have more things we want to show you! :)

[vikkzo101]

First drawing of Canden and my guy already getting traumatised oops

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Terrible, Terrible Things

A horror visual novel where you might be doing some horrible things with some equally horrible new friends.

♦️ After a long time of almost no contact and very questionable decisions, your closest friend invites you back to the town you both grew up in, where they instead stand you up. Unfortunately for them, this was your last straw. And unfortunately for you, you have 3 new friends from your old college who're all very eager to help you make the worst choices possible.

Hi! We're a two person developing team working on our first game.

We made this blog to post about the progress we make, for anyone that might be interested. So if you are, stick around, as we'll be sharing the development as we go along!

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One of the reasons I've been rather busy:

Me and @vikkzo101 are working on a little project 👀

We're gonna be working on a horror vn "dating sim" where you might be doing some horrible things with some equally horrible new friends.