Making a Deltarune AU visual-novel game from scratch 🎮

(things turned out for the worst -- on a long hiatus until I can recover) 👇 Buen día and welcome 👋 I'm your local impecunious but friendly GentleDarkner (SPA/ENG). This is the main blog to focus on my personal AU project. Building something that matters to me, while building the skills to make it matter to others. INTJ/INFJ - NB - ACE - He/Him They/Them (I'll keep walking forward no matter how bleak the future turns out to be)

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Joel: So if our shortie grew up... Who's gonna pick on him now to put him in check? Sears: For PR's sake, Jo, are you really thinking on resuming your pranks? Joel: What? No! I value my life like I value my stocks; always above the float-line. Really don't wanna get minced into voxels if he happens to be as short fused as in the past. Sears: Pray that you don't mess with his temper. I can't say he's mentally stable after going through his recent trance. Joel: You lead the way. We've no clue if he'll even remember me... Sears: He will, trust in all the good times we had together with him. Joel: That's easy for you to say. He's not the personification of a karma monster to you... Sears: Aaand, start by not calling him a monster by the way.

Leaving this simplified PinkSpamBlue sandwich here and running away to go to sleep. No in depth diving on my RL status -- it hasn't changed.

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Designed to interact with friends in the fandom and other friend AUs. This swallow-like Swatchlingsona has been in the backburner from quite some time. If you want to interact with him, you can ask me through DMs or comment down below.

I'm having a mighty migraine and not a good Saturday because of the toxicity of my roommate. I need to recover my motivation to art and to stop feeling like a failure every time I breath.

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Sorry for the lack of updates. You know the issue, classes taking up all of my free time, I can't even draw anything in peace during the breaks any more... On the side I fleshed out a little all the Chapter 3 version of my AU, and started to sketch a few more characters from a very big cast.

This is something I scribbled while trying to avert my eyes from the projector bc teacher was streaming Expedition 33 to show examples of good UI/UX and heuristics but... MUH SPOILERS! Mr. BADTenna is a very tragic character and there's a GOOD reason behind this appearance of his. This sketch was made like a the start of August, and BADTenna's design has gone through a few more iterations ever since. I need to upload a cleaner character sheet of him and the TV-Time Channel family of 14 guys... I need to make like a family photo of all the channel showrunners during the TV-Time's bonanza times. Tch... why my muse must hit me this hard when my time must be spent on something else. In that family photo, Tenna before his mind cracked to pieces looked so jolly, maybe because Mike is in there too. The good old times before the Lightners destroyed all this happiness with their selfishness. Oh, here is the reference for the tail of his species:

I think you are going to like the showrunner called VJ-DULCE. He's quickly becoming one of my favourites from the TV-Time channel because he has been in my mental backburner I think even from before Spwatchton hit me like a train. Not sure but I just hope you will like him and his strange rivalry with Swatch pre-Library. Can't say much but that we have a showrunner for each channel genre. Is the least we can do to keep BADTenna's mind stable enough to steer him down the correct track.

Feeling weak from fatigue. Not sleeping enough is taking its toll, as usual. But we must press on regardless. I'm thankful for the friends who keep supporting me in life and reminding me that as long as I'm still alive, there will be vindication for all the hell I'm going through since 2 years ago. I hope, I pray, I keep walking forward even if I get pelted with bricks because of my blood ties with unsavoury people and because of the whiny ableists who keep telling me I'm a disgusting person due to my internal organs making me convulse when my anxiety peaks. Please, keep a good thought for me and I'll keep you in mine. My Deltarune AU is my life and this truck will only stop when I'm two-feet under.

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I'm like... drown in work for the classes. My apologies 😢

Placeholder title-screen teaser of the Swatchling VR game that I'm plotting to make in Unreal Engine for the course. I did this pic for the GDD's header I need to deliver tomorrow. Can't tell much about the game but that you play as Merlot de Roug, as he goes through his night shift at one of the cafeteria terraces of the Queen's Palace hotel. If it goes well, it will be my final course's project, so it's gonna be real, with any luck (if they think it's worth their resources and time). Need to make Merlot's model and one of another Swatchling from a different AU who is important for the game flow.

(and yeah, I'm smearing all of my AU on all my class assignments, so that I keep progressing its development little by little, and so that I don't lose a grip of what matters in my life)

(very fatigued from crunching through the weeks non-stop but I must press forward even if I face plant and I start to snore down an ants' nest; even if I need to skip on socializing and on drawing for myself...)

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Finally managed to upload it after double checking the format of the picture. It's just a quick study sketch of the feral form of Merlot. Supposedly all Swatchlings has one feral side, leftovers from their former core (Swatchlings are the reflection of Master Swatch whereas the feral side is the reflection of the Rainbow Scourge side). This side can be triggered on demand, as Madame Tasque researched a means to seal and control it (represented by her Task Locker brand).

They are supposed to appear through the "geno" route, if people takes that route (not taken through the "Swatchgrave" route). Who would be mad enough to go through a boss rush of 28 stages? Some Chara impersonator, probably.

The course is still taking a lot of time from my development plate. I made several other sketches of research for Madame Tasque, and I has a full render of her to finish whenever I'm able to sit and go zen on it. At least the design landed very well amongst my friends. That gives me hopes that other people outside my circle will like her design and personality too.

Also... Who else would like to have a Spamton v-pet for Windows? anybody? no? OK--

<collapses into smitheroons>

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A little something I did for the coolest teacher I ever had in my life. Cheers to you 🍻

Now to make the post a little more relevant to my AU, the DG!Chapter3 version is starting to look quite fleshed out. My DG!Tenna also looks quite interesting, but I can't share pictures yet (though I have high hopes that he would be memorable enough to leave a crater somewhere in the Deltarune fandom).

For something else, I'm still struggling with Unity 3D in this module of the classes, to make that VR game in which I had plans to put my Jevil. This weekend I'll advance that, and if there is enough time left, I'll draw something.

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[[ETERNAL PENITENCE]]

LOCAL_SYS: Your Sins… Your Despair… The Fuel Keeping The Wheels Of Judgement Spun Within Your Soul… The Spindle That Keeps Tugging You Forward Mindlessly… All Of These That Tear You From Within Through Every Waking Moment… You Toil Forward… But, For What? Redemption? Castigation? Love? But If You Serve… The Peace Of MERCY Will Be Bestowed Upon You… Become Our Loyal .EXE, Bird Of Prey, And All Of That Suffering Will Be Gone… No More Creeping Thoughts… Only The Stillness Of Subservience… Let Us SPARE You From Your Eternal Torment… To Release You From This Wheel Of Self-Imposed Penitence… Let Us Think And Feel For You… Let The Absolute Quietness Of The Flock Enter You… Let Us In… Forfeit Your Spurious Administrator Rights… We Are Your Only Salvation… Master Swatch: Do not trust the Heaven of the Thousand Eyes… We are the only flock we need… the only family… One leash for both of us is enough… Spwatchton: [[S4LV3T10N ⚷]]? You think you can [[STRANGLE THIS BIRD ⚷]] into servitude? By pulling from the [[BLOODY STR1NGS ⚷]]? If you thought that the only way to my heart was [[THROUGH MY CHEST ⚷]], you are [[UNLUCKY™️ ⚷]]; this [[RIBCAGE ⚷]] was [[H0LL0W33D 0UT ⚷]] long ago… Only the [[STR1NGS ⚷]] that bind me to my [[LOVED ONES ⚷]] are the [[STR1NGS♥ ⚷]] I respond to…

Sorry, it's been 2 months since I made a picture for my AU and it might look sloppy. I even got a bit lost with what was I doing from the lack of practice. This drawing was sitting in my computer since November 2024, and because of that, I thought it was high time to put some painting on it and finish it. Hope you like it, and forgive me the trickling of content. Between the classes, not sleeping enough, no socialization and the commissions, I feel like I'm losing my artistic touch... :c

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I'm like... drown in work for the classes. My apologies 😢

Placeholder title-screen teaser of the Swatchling VR game that I'm plotting to make in Unreal Engine for the course. I did this pic for the GDD's header I need to deliver tomorrow. Can't tell much about the game but that you play as Merlot de Roug, as he goes through his night shift at one of the cafeteria terraces of the Queen's Palace hotel. If it goes well, it will be my final course's project, so it's gonna be real, with any luck (if they think it's worth their resources and time). Need to make Merlot's model and one of another Swatchling from a different AU who is important for the game flow.

(and yeah, I'm smearing all of my AU on all my class assignments, so that I keep progressing its development little by little, and so that I don't lose a grip of what matters in my life)

(very fatigued from crunching through the weeks non-stop but I must press forward even if I face plant and I start to snore down an ants' nest; even if I need to skip on socializing and on drawing for myself...)

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First, sorry for the radio silence. Classes has most of my attention, along with commissions and the fact that I'm hiding from socials because I'm yet to see the gameplays of you know what 😅

I had some spare time during second break to make a lil drawing for a classmate that is still in the hospital since last week, but I also drew my first research of the King of my AU on the same Page and I ran out of space (I want to be closer to the original design without forgetting the new impression). Technically my DG!King is a bit nastier but not as much as from when the Dark Fountain and the Shadow Mantle bolstered his hatred. In fact, without the influence of these he became more cunning and sees his son more often than not (but still behind bars). Plays a key part in the plot of Delta-Gambit and the Dark Light knows how much I love to write yet darker villains 😎 It's kind of strange because Spwatch is of the little people who won his respect because they both basically aim for the same goal, but different paths. Thinks King is more of a ruler than Ralsei would ever be and King decided to have him on a hand's reach so to speak (keep your friends and allies close, but your enemies even closer).

I'm still trying to practice the portly anatomy of King and Tiramisú, but I drew this in the middle of the street from memory (they really dislike us loitering inside the building during the class breaks). Anyway, I think I got my own design for King more or less nailed down, but I'm going to need to draw him fullbody some time in the future to get a better feeling about the character. You like what you see so far?

Also, about the spamblue pics I mentioned to draw, they are sketched but I has no material time in my week yet to digitalize them. Hope I can get some respite after I finish the commissions and assignments.

As a weird note, my teacher loves the universe of JoJo, and she randomly commented that Spwatchton could be perfectly my Stand 😳 Felt really fuzzy inside when they said that veyheyejteihteudsghsffjs 🫠 (and I would be the holder of the most broken Stand in ages after Dio and others I forgor the names lol)

Until next post ;-;

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Is June. You know what that means:

- Drowning all of you with my gay #Spamblue every single day (or at least I will try, no promises since I'm not the boss of myself)

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I forgor to showcase this finished commission from few months ago. How I am to tantalize future clients if I don't showcase my stuff 😭 I'm so forgetful...

My commissions are still open by the way, until Hell freezes all over. Go grab whatever takes your fancy and help this poor Darkner survive another month of indentured servantry ;')

The link to my Ko-Fi 👉 https://ko-fi.com/spwatchton

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You know, I've spent all week learning on my own how to:

Make a character from scratch

Rig it manually with the specifications for animation

Wrangling the graph editor

Compositing

Basically all the pipeline, in less than a week (because I can't count the days I was out doing chores for my roommate during all afternoon and evening). I feel, elevated (and very very fatigued).

Tomorrow is the exam, and all the steps I learnt during this time needs to be reproduced tomorrow, with just 8 hours to have something done and rendering it with very old machines.

I'm kind of hyped because my dream of making my Addisons in 3D and animating them like I see them in my mind is an at arm's reach; of course, if time wills it because I can't simply expect to have time to make content for my AU, am I right?

For anything else, this is Daléon, he's a chamaleon artist that loves art with passion. Lives in an art studio where he takes requests and commissions from anyone who has an eye for whimsical art. I also made his studio in 3D. I'll show you when I get time to render it properly without the rope of responsibilities strangling me.

Anyway, to sleep. I need to be well rested for this exam. Wish me luck 🍀

EDIT: Slipping here the short in my YouTube channel that looks less crustified by the aura of GIF.

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Another old timelapse from a year ago to keep alive my YouTube channel. I'm still beset by class assignments, and the 2 last exams are this 27th (8 hours because we need to render an animation) and the 28th is for theory. I need to lock in to finish this animation training before this 27th, and I'm half way through it 😭

That picture reminds me to the first anon who ever donated to me. I'll never know who they were since it was like a year ago when it happened 🤔Makes me wonder if they still follow me on Tumblr or just walked away when I started to get difficulties uploading content about my AU. Juggling with life and this personal project of mine is a feat that is destroying the little social life I has. From what I was told, only the real ones will keep cheering for me, while the rest will go away when their passing fancy runs out. I don't blame them, I can't help it when I'm not able to make content. The struggle is real... There's a ton of gift art I also want to make (like a Christmas one that is still pending ever since) for those mutuals that still hold me in esteem. It's hard to fight against your own wishes because of other responsibilities taking priority. But such is life, and you need to cope with all your shortcomings, like it or not.

I'll keep walking forward, no matter what. Just hope people has enough patience as the patience I show while dealing with my own economic issues and the forced indenturation I face daily.

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My Seam, behatted as requested (what is a wizard without their hat?). I can't say much about them in my AU, even less when Jevil is alive in this continuity. Seam has their own key role in the AU as expected, and how they deal with Spwatchton... Well, let's say that for Seam Spwatch is like a proverbial Schrödinger, like the coin still spinning or a qubit defying coherent superposition. It's like the other amusing thing Seam seems to be interested in, but still wary about Spwatch's allegiances.

Not going to bore you more, I'm typing this on the phone, but you can ask questions as per usual.

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Hmm managed to draw again. It's been very busy days at class and at home and I couldn't see any free time to draw again. Then I remembered I needed to at least practice drawing this guy since Jevil is going to be another of the key characters in my AU and I need to start to practice him (along with Seam, I think maybe is going to be the next character I'll draw). I think it's not bad for my first time. What you think? I did so the bells are representing all the suits of the cards, and his eyes are gaping holes with lamp like pupils like a classic Black Mage. For the rest, I used these as reference to do my own interpretation:

I need to get better with the pencil...

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Well, the 2nd assignment is finished. Spamton's store-front with a whimsy cartoon touch. I made use of my old Trashy vr avatar I did last year (and that I suppose nobody remembers) to give it a point of interest. There's also an obscure cameo to an old cartoon in this picture.

I made everything from scratch, including the materials and textures. Could be better but I'm really wasted of so much crunching things in Blender for so many weeks on end 😭At least I learnt a lot of things along the way.

The 3rd assignment I need to do it before Monday. Should be simple but... Sunday is always full with house chores. Anyway, I hope I can have something on time. I'm sad I couldn't spend any of my Spring holidays advancing commissions, but it is what it is. Once I has this 3rd assignment finished, there is another one, but its delivery date is for the 28th. Hope I can advance commissions between tomorrow and then.

To sleep I go... It's almost 6 AM and I don't know how I'm still so awake (maybe the stress of not having stuff finished on time).

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2 weeks of wrangling with this. The learning curve was very steep but I managed, to learn new things and to learn from my mistakes. I recycled my old Smash Bros template I did for Glace because in the end I had plans to make one for all characters.

I'm still not finished with my class assignments, but I'm happy the 3D character is over and ready to deliver to the teacher. Now onto Spamton's store-front for the 3D scene assignment 🏃‍♂️ (which I hope will be easier since I don't have to put armatures to anything nor stare in terror at my weighted vertexes...).

Adding one more render of how the silly looks like in full body (I should finish that character sheet of his some day too).

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OK, so far the model is complete, but I need to put an armature in him too because without bones, there is going to be zero movement and zero posing. I'm more concerned about the presentation... I want to try out an interesting way of rendering it in a less photorealistic way (and that means STUDYDING this Sunday how the studio TRIGGER does certain stuff I want to imitate 📚). At least I'm happy with the Addison hands I made 🖐 (it took me like 4 days of wondering the science behind it, how to make them like the articulated Addison hands they are and not normal hands that everyone else and their cat tack to their models -- I made everything from a single square). These hands can be shaped in many designs for all the other body types of Addison in my AU cast (sadly these can't be used on Spwatchton because his hands of "Spurious-Admin" are different...). This means that I can use these hands as template to model the ones of my other Addison OCs 😁OMG I can't wait to model all of my Addis dsfkjhdfkjlhasd 💥

Anyhow, that's an update on the model. I'll keep blendering until my eyes fall off.

On another thing, I also took the time to develop the storyboard of the AMV I want to animate of Spwatchton vs. "Tenna" (whoever that is lol), and it slaps so hard, but they are like 25 camera shots of animated storytelling, I'm not even sure if I'll be able to have enough time to do it. I always wanted to do my own "anime style" music video since I was a teenager, and I could add this AMV easily to my portfolio and enrich my career with animation. Ah, so many ambitions... but my determination depends on the power of kromer to stabilize my life and not beg for people to commission me to pay my internet. I also titled the animation storyboard as "Deletenna". What Spwatch is going to do in that animation, I leave that to your imagination until I can make the first draft of sketches 👉👈