Kibi's World

A pixel game about a silly green person who goes on one last journey to rid themself of a curse that has deteriorated their joyful life. Questions here! About the Game Background Credit

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Super late, but needed update!

SHORT VERSION: The game's development is on hiatus. Not forever, of course. But now I have two giant art project level stories to make and they need to take turns because I am only one person and they're equally important to me. It sucks, but it has to be this way. I added channels to the Discord to give updates on what I'm occupied with so I won't be silent for so long.

LONG VERSION:

In February of this year, I re-awakened this older story I had worked on for years and not only am I not burnt out on it anymore, but I've been able to easily revamp the story with fresh eyes and it is far more coherent than any of its previous iterations were by a long shot. And after only 2 months, I still have so many more plans for how to put it all together.

Because of how this has gone, I believe that when I eventually switch back to working on my game, the same thing will happen. I'll have new ways of improving the story far beyond its current state, a clearer vision for the gameplay I truly want, and more passion than I've been recently able to muster up for working on it. I never stopped caring about it, but I was starting to approach fatigue.

This new old story I'm working on will become a webcomic, and its working title is AtWaR, which was an acronym for a name I don't think fits anymore. So eventually I'll rename it, but ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

If you're afraid that this means I will end up abandoning the game, I understand and I had a similar fear when this started. But I've found comfort in something one of my best friends told me: My older OCs are Kibitzer's older siblings. I can trust them and Kib won't be left behind while they get the spotlight for a bit.

One more thing: I believe this hiatus will last longer than I originally thought, partially because I'm nowhere near ready to put my webcomic back down yet, and also because I've gotten a little too confident and joined an original character tournament (requiring me to make comics), which is going to force my progress on either AtWaR or RAR to take breaks for probably the rest of the year, but it will be a community and skill building endeavor that I believe will be worth it in the end. It's been so long since I was able to join one of those either.

This is going to be incredible, and eventually I WILL be back to working on Reboots Aren't Real.

(Oh, and to explain the previous post I made about wanting to share big changes I was making to the visuals, that was true and I was essentially working on a new background and walking sprites to accomodate a side scroller as opposed to a top-down, but then too much got in the way of me finishing those previews and now I'm not even fully sure if I'll still be going in that direction or not, so I hesitate to share them yet, especially just before going on hiatus.)

Here is the Discord for the OCT if anyone is interested in watching me (and my husband!) work on that.

(and here's their website)

When I get far enough on my original webcomic's progress to make it a website, I will share that too.

Within the Discord server dedicated to game updates, I created channels for AtWaR and the OCT so the server isn't just silent for so many months. My socials for the game will stay focused on that, but if you want periodic ramblings about what I'm up to, you'll find them on Discord.

Thank you for reading and for sticking around if you're so inclined!

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No visuals just yet, but I'm making some big changes! Once I perfect the code and then finish this new room and Kibitzer's new overworld sprites, I'll share it all!

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TEN new talk sprites reveal!! They showed up in a Deltarune video I made, but they'll all be usable in the game. I'm so happy to finally have talk sprites of Quincell. 💚

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Just a silly lil thing I whipped up in Gamemaker and it took much longer to make than I wanted, but fine! (Entirely because I drew 10 new talk sprites for this) I love the "god fucking damn it Kris where the FUCK are we!?" meme.

SPOILERS for Deltarune's 3rd chapter in the video below

For my normal followers, don't worry, I'll make another post showing off the new talk sprites on their own if you haven't played DR ch. 3 yet.

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Working on a silly Deltarune crossover thing that will have a light chapter 3 spoiler, but will also have never before seen Kib talk sprites. x3c

(I'll upload them separately for game followers who aren't ready for the DR spoilers.)

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Kibitzer originally being a Deltarune fanchar like:

Genuinely, though. When I think about it, Deltarune is the main reason I'm working on my own videogame today. I could go on and on about how that is, but for now I'll simply list 3 major things:

Kibitzer's name, chosen to match the game theme of Card Kingdom.

The prototype concept for my game, which has since been altered quite a bit, but there are remnants left.

Both times I ever tried (2nd time committed) to make my own videogame, I did it because Toby Fox makes games that seem actually doable even to someone as clueless about code as me. I can make pixel move! So I did.

Now I'm developing a pixel adventure featuring Kibitzer, a silly green person who lives in a hole in a purple forest and goes on a journey to rid themself of a curse that plagues them with memories of their own death. Guiding them is a manipulative asshole named Quincell, whose head is a TV, because fuck yeah I made my "Mike" fan design into an original character. What else was I gonna do with it??

Here's to chapters 3 and 4 of Deltarune, in which I will finally discover who Toby Fox's TV head is and no doubt be plunged into an intense hyperfixation that will halt progress on my own game for months! xP

And here's to Kibitzer, whose story I can't WAIT to tell. 💚

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Had a meltdown yesterday, so I think that means it's time for an update! 8D

I had writer's block for a good bit, but I finally found a new method that REALLY helps me get the juices flowing. (It's not drugs xP)

Finished making the entire prologue playable! Not to be confused with section 1, which... I guess includes the prologue? Or doesn't. Either way, that took a long time, so I'm pausing here to indulge in some of the detail work.

Speaking of detail work, here's one of that! Kibitzer is a bit younger in this scene, and this fellow talking to them is Randolph, who is very important to them. :} :} :}

The prologue consists of 5 scenes from Kibitzer's past, and it took me about 13 minutes to play through it while allowing the text to appear at its normal speed and reading at my normal mental speed.

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Bringin' back the classic Homestuck Sprite Base with Kibitzer for 4/13! I drew the hair, glasses, mouth, tail, and edited the body a lil bit. The rest is from bases.

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I saw some cute drawings of OCs wearing shirts that said "I can't afford a house" and "I cry all the time", so I made a loosely-inspired picture as an excuse to draw Kib looking EXTRA cute + an alt without the background Kib and one with tears.

Shirt design taken from this.

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Releasing this in the server with my dev update, so yeah~

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Game dev update #1

(I guess this is the first one I've thought to number, so yeah?)

Honestly I just forget to tell people stuff sometimes, but a new update exactly a month after the last one makes sense to me!

I have indeed been working on the game all month and I'm still going. I intend to keep any future distraction breaks much shorter than previous ones, but thankfully there haven't really been any yet this year.

I have finished scripting section 1 and a little more of section 2.

I had planned to have multiple endings from the start, but my friends have helped me discover a much broader scope to work with and a more narratively satisfying way to track what route the player is on. When that came to me, I drew this to celebrate!

I did end up drawing that little guide of Kibitzer at different ages, literally on the same day I posted the last update, so here's that!

I'm currently coding the rough playable section 1. I've got quite a bit to go, but in the process, I've further improved my code and learned that it is, in fact, possible for my dumb ass to make some of my visions for the game a reality.

In other words, I've FINALLY learned how to do many of the common cutscene actions with the system I have set up! Albeit with a few hiccups, but nothing hair-ripping. I can't show you any of that yet because it looks like garbage without my actual art moving around instead of stock images of a duck and a bad screenshot of another game. 🤣

So for now, I'll go back into my code hole.

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I drew this to accompany a dev update for Reboots Aren't Real at the beginning of January and then didn't post the update publicly because I forgot. I'll paste it here, but I'll probably have another one soon.

Anyway, here's a sketch that I think is a good representation of the bull and shit Kibitzer is going to go through. :)

The dev update, originally posted on January 2nd, 2025:

Happy new year, everyone!

I'm attempting a resolution to start prioritizing development on this game a lot more than I have been. I want to get it in a state where it can at least have a demo and a trailer.

I am finally starting to feel like I've got the main story figured out. I think of the story as 6 sections, though I can't say how long any of them are yet. I have scripted almost all of the first section and a little bit of the second.

When I've fully scripted all of section 1, I'm interested in creating an extremely rough, unpolished draft of the section as gameplay so I might have an idea of how long it takes to play through, but we'll see how long it takes me to even do that haha. This will only be for beta testing anyhow.

I still have such a massive amount of work to finish, but I'm going to try my best to be more consistent in my output and thus finish the game before I die in a reasonable amount of time!

Other things I want to do soon, writing here so I'm extra motivated to do them:

Draw Kibitzer at various ages as they'll appear in the game (mostly at the beginning and in flashbacks/dreams).

Finally give Quincell his own sprites and maybe introduce him properly.

Scribble rough ideas of what every location will look like so it's at least close to possible to envision what Kibitzer does in later sections.

I have this little animation of Kibitzer and Quincell that I've been working on and sort of took a break from. I want to finish that! It's just for fun, won't appear in the game, but the world deserves to see it!

Get WAY more writing done than I did last year. Hell, I think a year is more than enough time to finish the entire script.

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I present to you, the COVER ART and TITLE of my game, Reboots Aren't Real!

Font used is Sujeta.

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Hello all! I've just joined Telegram, so I figured I'd ask how many people would be interested in a Telegram channel for game updates. Let me know! ^_^

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I made some stickers for the Discord server!

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I also have the bare bones of what a cutscene can be today! It took a surprising and annoying amount of trial and error to get the darn fade to work right! But now I have that! I've also got the same object that did the fade-to-black to fade through as many images as I want for certain spruced up cutscenes that are not drawn yet! 8D

But yeah, really happy to have the bases for the cutscenes completed!

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I made a system that changes the sounds of Kibitzer's steps based on what terrain they're walking on! So far, I really only have dirt and grass around here, so yeah.

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I'm obsessed with details and they make me excited ok

In order, we have: Kibitzer sitting down in front of the TV (the TV will glow and make noise in game), a clothes line animation I'm proud of, and some templates for grass objects that will slowly sway and then move more rapidly if Kibitzer walks over them. x3