my name is mari & and this is my artblog/sketchdump! am 21 :)
-> am totally cool w/ anyone using my art for pfp/blog headers/etc. w credit :)
-> my askbox is open for questions or even just chatter
-> my interests are currently but not limited to:
genshin impact, visual novels, dragon age/mass effect, baldurs gate 3/pathfinder/CRPGs in general, league of legends, choice of/hosted games, hotline miami
-> for my art i mainly use clip studio paint or procreate
my other art socials are listed on my blog
no reposting my artwork or using my art for AI or NFTs <3
The Wedding is my first Visual Novel. You can now buy it! Demo | Steam |Itch.io
And thank you all for the support. 💕
Steam finally decided to behave, so I can post my emotional rambling, and you’ll just have to endure it. 😄
Is it crazy to say that I’m more proud of The Wedding than When Life Gives You Lemons? Don’t get me wrong, I love both, and Lemons is probably the game that got me where I am since so many people resonated with it.
But as far back as I can remember, I’ve always wanted to make a Visual Novel, and now, four years later, with so much support from this community and a crash course in learning how to code in Ren’Py, it’s finally done. I finally published my first VN.
The graphics, the story, the characters... I love them all.
Micah holds a special place in my heart because I never thought I could create a character that sassy and still have readers fall in love with them. Cassidy was a last-minute addition and somehow became one of my favorite romances (sorry, I’m biased). Tara/Tariq is incredibly sweet, and their artwork with the bonnet is still one of my favorites.
And then there’s Danny and Taylor. All of them are so different, yet somehow they all came alive as I write every little scene and every little dialogue.
Yes, the launch was delayed on Steam because Steam needed to approve the page, and yes, I was kind of bummed out and was waiting before I made an official announcement.
But, Hey! It's finally available on Steam. 💕
This was a passion project; the game is nowhere near perfect, but I love it, flaws and all, and I’m incredibly proud of it.
Thank you all for the support. Thank you to all my Kickstarter backers. I’m so grateful to have an audience willing to read my silly little stories.
Here’s to more stories coming your way, however cringy they may be. 💕
Also adding some of my other finished games.
The Midnight Saga-Demo | Steam | Google | Apple
Insert-Rich-Family-Name-Demo | Google Play |Apple Store| Steam
It Takes Three to Tango Demo
When Life Gives You Lemons-Demo | Steam
Also... Big thank you to Dori for this beautiful Banner. 🥰
Dragon age origins is like…. You’re nineteen, new in town, and it’s your second day at pizza hut. You don’t even know how to work the register yet and you just watched your manager get carted off by the paramedics. You have no contact info for him, his next of kin, or corporate. The only other employee is the guy who’s been here for two weeks and is a bit of a doofus, and neither of you really know what you’re supposed to do now. You both desperately need this job though, and the doofus at least has a drivers license and *kiiinda* knows how to use the oven so you just. Shrug, and start taking orders and making pizzas and praying to god that the bills are on autopay.
And weirdly enough you’re really good at this: making pizzas and dealing with shitty customers and breaking up fights in the parking lot and pretending to be Duncan’s cousin on the phone so the utility company doesn’t cut off the power. But running a store is a lot of work for two dumb kids, so slowly you start accumulating a bunch of competent weirdos to help out, like the nun who left her convent because god told her to help you make pizzas, and the elderly school teacher who just survived a mass shooting, and the guy the papa johns down the street hired to run you over. And really there’s no way any of this should be working as well as it is - you’re absolutely committing fraud of some kind here - but you’ve managed to dodge the landlord every time he’s stopped by, and the health inspector never shows up to tell you to stop letting your dog hang out behind the counter and you’re all still kinda looking at each other and asking ‘are we allowed to just do this?’ before shrugging again and continuing to make pizzas, until somehow, through a series of unlikely technicalities, your doofus coworker ends up on the ballot for governor.
And after like five months of this the regional manager wanders in out of nowhere and you’re sure he’s about to chew your ass out for this mess, but it turns out he’s pretty chill and honestly kind of impressed with how you managed to keep the place up and running all on your own. So now you’re all thinking ‘thank god, there’s someone here who actually knows how to run a Pizza Hut’ only for him to get hit by a car two days later on the night of the Super Bowl.
