My name's Heiden and I'm a solo developer with a passion for quirky emotional narrative games!
Work In Progress:
Who's That Mokemon?! (Working Title)
Being made for Yaoijam 2024. A comedy RPG where two boys go on an adventure to break the sleeping curse on their village! Will feature 64 creatures to wrangle, train and evolve. Form your very own mokemon party, kiss your rival and discover the secrets of the island!
There's no way I'm going to be able to finish during the two month jam, but will be diligently working on it during the jam!
Finished Games (in reverse chronological order):
Hug Embassy (2024)
Hug Embassy is looking for a new intern! Could that be you? A short 10k VN with hugging mini-games that can be played in-browser in a single sitting.
Available for Windows and Browser. Free.
Half Haunt Halloween (2023)
Move back home to your supernatural family and earn enough money to prevent the electrical company from shutting off your power! A 30k tragicomedy money raiser about making do with what you've got when the whole system is rigged against you. Also your little brother is a weeb. Nya~!
Available for Windows and Mac. Commercial Release.
A Heart of Butterblue (2023)
City girl Phebe has just inherited a farm. Her father was also just murdered and her grandfather is mysteriously missing. But she's mostly focused on adapting to her new routine.
A 30k horror western VN/farm sim with fully playable farming mechanics (plant, water, harvest, sell, plant), a foraging system, active clock and three characters to get close to and attempt to befriend.
Available for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Steam. Free.
Tomorrow for Mar (2022)
Cast spells on a large cast of quirky characters as Mar attempts to pass their university final while battling the world's most obvious crush. Awkward.
A 2.5D VN with puzzles.
Available for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Steam. Commercial Release.
Also available in French and Italian.
Ziva and the Wolves (2021)
Ziva is dying and there is no cure. Two knights both want the same legendary sword for opposing reasons. The three of them travel deep into the depths of the Goddess' temple to determine the fate of their lives.
A 5k VN with puzzles that take the form of SRPG battles.
Available for Windows and Mac. Free.
Heart is Muscle (2021)
Flex your way to become mayor! The town of Swoleville elects their mayor by way of a flexing contest, and poor Boro has just lost to his archrival. He's got 24 hours to contest the results but also-- the world might be ending?!
A comedy RPG/VN about getting stronger, helping people and saving the world!
Available for Windows, Mac, Linux and Steam. Commercial.
A New Don (2021)
Fia is set to inherit the title of Donna in one week, but has to survive the rest of the family's murder attempts first to get there! Features a nameable giant pet hog.
A 24k mafia-themed otome thriller with two LIs each with their own ending and a slew of bad ends.
Available for Windows, Mac, Linux and Browser. Free.
Also available in Spanish.
Kill the Prince?! (2020)
A prince is being married against his will. An assassin(?) is hired to take care of the issue. Wait, what? This game is gay?
A 5k comedy VN with espionage mechanics and four weird outfits to dress our assassin up in.
Available for Windows, Mac, Linux and Browser. Free.
Also available in Portuguese and French.
The Girl With The Gray Hair Awakens (2019)
A girl wakes up in a room with no memory and no color. Die, continue, die, continue again, and you might break the cycle.
Made in 72 hours as a 'flash gamedev challenge'.
Available for Windows, Mac, Linux and Browser. Free.
The Bog's Heart (2018)
Travel deep into the heart of the bog to find a cure for Meg's mom! But also your dog starts talking? That can't be normal.
A short (~5k) VN with puzzles made for Acejam 2018.
Dr. Frank's Build-A-Boyfriend (2017)
Dr. Frank's ex-boyfriend just stole his research and he's out for REVENGE. Build yourself the hottest bestest boy ever to SHOW UP his STINKY EX!!!!!
A 18k black comedy with point and click elements and a crafting system as well as a customizable custom made boyfriend!
Available for Windows, Mac, Linux, Steam, Nintendo Switch, Playstation Store, Microsoft Store.
Itch.io and Steam version Free. Console Port with New Epilogue Commercial.
Elvine (2013)
Elvine flees a horrible attack on her village to the ruins of an old castle. There she awaits news of the outside world while the ghosts of the past creep up on her...
A 32k somber otome game with two LIs and four endings. The first game I ever made!!! Look at how far I've come, omg.
Well here I am, I started the battle mechanics. I was just telling a friend that this feels like i have a giant ball of yarn with no ending string so I just have to grab one of the strands and start pulling. One of the hardest parts is starting!
UWA I've completely fallen off from my normal scheduled posting, sorry about that!!!
I posted November's dev log over on itch.io! https://itch.io/blog/846797/ho-ho-ho-its-december
I've been hard at work on my little game. Past few days I made a mokedex (it's a pokedex) and a pause menu and even implemented controller support! That was something I always wanted to try out and found it to be surprisingly easy!! IT also goes a long way to make it feel much more polished!!!
Next up is, hmm, probably get the party mechanics working? Having mokemon in your party etc. Eventually I'll get around to the battle mechanics but need to build up the systems to even hold them first!
Oops got distracted by the turkey and forgot yesterday was wednesday, not today!
Well I can proudly say that after a ton of head scratching (all self-induced I'm afraid haha), I finally got my solitaire game working just how I'd like it!
I had set out some goals for myself this month and it seems that I am just ignoring all them and making these little minigames instead LMAO. Working on customizing the decks for solitaire and then I need to build a scene transfer script to more elegantly move from the base scene to the minigame (also useful for my world map moving too, it's versatile!) .
And then after that... hmm. I'll probably get to work on the battle mechanics! I gave myself a soft deadline of Christmas to get the battles implemented. (I work best on schedules) so I'll be lumbering toward that goal I believe!
But to be more serious, I've been working on adding a few minigames to my little mokemon game and I've got nearly the 3rd little game running. Does this game need solitaire, mahjong and sudoku? No. But I wanted to add them in anyway because I thought it would be fun and that's what counts!
This took me SO LONG Im embarrassed to even admit the amount of hours but IT WORKS the shader WORKS holy moly this was a 30 second gamedev tutorial and like 5 Minute Crafts it was FULL OF LIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You'd think I would have learned by now to be weary of gamedev tutorials that make it look really easy and simple. It's never that way in practice, unfortunately.
But regardless, I did it! I was even going to upload a video to show y'all but the video is taking way too long to load so this out of context screenshot it shall be.
I'm back on my biweekly update after a vacation, an ER visit and then an election that possibly might mean the end of the democratic experiment!
But enough about that, what was I able to do? Well i designed a bunch of mokemon on my trip and then I finished up the walking sprites needed for two NPCs~!
Next I'll probably work on some more NPCs. They take a while to make (bc i am no good at animation haha;) but trying my best to have fun with them.
If I can be counted on for anything, it's that im going to get distracted with what I'm planning on working on next, haha.
Ended up doing the walk cycle for the first NPC! This is Fuchsia, she's our protagonist Gray's sister. You'll be seeing a lot of her in the beginning of the game! :D
I won't be updating this upcoming Sunday because I'll be too busy with irl stuff, but I shall see you in one week-- next wednesday!
I was able to finish setting up the transportation code in my game! You can now walk the entire circle of the island! Woah! That's some fancy gameplay!!!!
I think I'll work on setting up switching the camera correctly and having a loading screen next but I also know my brain and we might get distracted 😂.
So we shall see what I'm able to do for next Wednesdays update!
Heehee, :) I lied, instead of working on NPC animations, I am now working on getting my transportation system working~! (It's so cool to actually 'play' the game!!!! I MADE THIS !!! WOAH!!!)
Fell asleep last evening before I was able to make an update haha;
I wrote another 1k of the script and this morning I wrote up the month devlog update over on itch!
Oh my god I spent 2 hours writing this blog post and right before I hit save my cat stepped on my keyboard which refreshed the page and I LO
I think I need to decrease the amount of updates from Sunday, Wednesday, Friday to just Sunday and Wednesday. I don't usually get enough done between Wednesday and Friday for a real update. So just two times~!
