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indiedev studio from chile

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our new game TRAILER is OUT! ☆⌒(˶˃ᆺ˂˶)

we've been working hard on delivering new things, so please go check out the new steam page for our game Mircea where you can see the info and trailer!

hope Rental fans will enjoy it~ 𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟

[sukinapan]

new NPCs i made for Mircea :D

urban exploration group consisting of 3 young people and a 50 year old man

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la umi

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UMI cursors ଘ(੭ˊᵕˋ)੭* ੈ✩‧₊˚

these were made by artist Skii Ryu in collaboration with us and are available on her ko-fi (the link includes a 30% discount code for 2 days)

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abigail

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bubblegum galaxy OST study playlist o( ❛ᴗ❛ )o

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bubblegum galaxy ((d⌒ω⌒b))♬♪ working on some special content for the upcoming release~

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antiphony ִֶָ. ..𓂃 ࣪ ִֶָ🪽་༘࿐

new small game me and my friends at smarto club made for a gamejam ଘ(੭ˊᵕˋ)੭

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rental has been a very lovely play :) it's even encouraged me and some friends to finally take part in a game jam, that's how cool the game is!

aw thank you so much (˶˃ᆺ˂˶) very happy to have inspired you and your friends. it's a very silly game and we had a lot of fun making it, but we're still always surprised with its positive reception for how small it is.

hope you stay tuned for our future games too!

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the quicksand was too strong

[sukinapan]

i keep getting that one gif in my own feed but it's the first time i've seen an edit like this jfgjfgjfj

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Devlog #3 - The Update Board

Hello everynyan!

It has been some time since our last devlog (3 months!) and we think is time to talk about what we are doing behind the courtains, our plans and, well, our roadmap.

This is our current roadmap for the demo before the release of Darkbound's Chapter 1. After this, the demo will not receive more content, just maintenance updates like game breaking bugs, as we will have our full focus on the development of the first chapter. And as you can see, we are halfway there!

The audio rework implies the incorporation of FMOD to the project, and it being the first time I use it, the tool proves a bit of a challenge as I am still learning it. Also, there are new sounds and systems that come with it, like the footsteps and cameras tracking Miauguel.

(Miauguel's footsteps sound different depending on the surface, when walking over liquid *splash splash * until his socks are dry)

As for the story added update, it will be a short introduction of a new character and a new cinematic to wrap up the demo. To make everything more cohesive we are changing some dialogues, adding/changing cinematics and polishing the story we want to tell overall. We are really excited about this new content and we hope you like it!

(Storyboard previa of one of the new cinematics because, yes, we storyboard EVERY cinematic)

Lastly, the translations update. Some people who enjoyed our game volunteered to localize the demo in other languages! We can't share many details yet but we are very thankful of everyone who is helping to make Darkbound available to other kittens around the globe.

This is a slow process as we have to gather all the dialogues in the game (new ones included) and send it to the translators. Then, make sure everything works and looks good in the game (without us understanding the language D:). When everything is finished, we'll post a build on our Discord server so the bilingual kittens can try it and send us some feedback. Many new things happened since our last chat, we've reached some impressive accomplishments! Like reaching 130 Discord members on Darkbound enjoyers! And reaching 7k wishlists on Steam! Thank you everynyan, we cherish every single fanart, message of support or simple reaction we get from you, it really gives us strenght to keep pushing through! I (Oruga), personally, like to keep track of every piece of content people make of Darkbound (I have a folder on my pc with every fanart I've encountered so far) as I'm the one in charge of our social media. Because of that I also have to deal with situations that fuel my social anxiety to its core. A month ago, while searching in youtube for Darkbound related videos I ran into a 500k views russian video where someone made a very cute summary of the demo. Ignoring the obvious AI images and the fact that I was watching it with auto-generated subs I was pretty impressed with the editing and happy that our game could be shared with a russian speaking community! Then, the summary ended with him extracting the game data and opening it in Godot (we were aware that this could happen) and leaking every piece of juicy content that we don't show on the demo but is included in the game files! Even if most of it is pretty outdated I was still dissapointed. I guess it's our fault but I'm sad now :( Anyways, thanks to this we have a lot of russian speaking followers now (привет!) the Darkbound virus keeps spreading around the world, nyehehe!~

(Insanely funny fanart by reallycrazyinconvenience posted on our discord server)

I also wanna talk about a part of gamedev that no one wants to talk about... The marketing and publicity production... I'm no marketing expert, I have no idea what I'm doing 90% of the time, but this is something exceptionally important when you want to realease a game! Because Trashdaw already has too much on his plate I take care of this burden, and let me tell ya... this is hard. Not only I have to squeeze my brain juices to create content for social media (mostly awful tiktoks) I also have to keep an eye on available events that MIGHT accept Darkbound. This last month we joined two Steam fests and we already set everything up for two more next year. Hope I get a raise someday!

(Process of the marketing images I make for the Steam fests, because I like to add my own touch to everything!)

Welp, that's everything we had to say! If you want to ask anything, we are available at our Discord server!

Until next time! ฅ^•ﻌ•^ฅ

- Oruga and Trashdaw

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Is the Umi in Peklo and the Umi in RENTAL the same kid?

they're the same character but it's a different universe.

in the Rental universe everyone is a bunny because that's just the equivalent of humans. in Peklo, however, the characters used to be normal humans but their souls are trapped in limbo/hell so what we're seeing is not their original appearance.

maybe the distinction is not too relevant but just know that Peklo is not a continuation of Rental in any way!

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adding some extra thoughts here because i didn't wanna clutter my art only sideblog:

i originally thought about adding Umi to the Peklo cast because obviously her appearance fit perfectly in it, and i also just thought it would be really funny.

i made this illust and was more convinced that her mean, carefree personality was a really good fit against the more melancholic main characters.

i was just recently thinking about back when we made Rental i never had the explicit intention of creating a mean character. i think it started with her remarks of being annoyed at her little brother because it's just typical older sister stuff and then it started to build towards her just insulting everything and i loved it. i really like how her personality turned out. i also drew her face just as a cute bunny originally but i like how mocking-like her smile ended up looking.

her being in Peklo raises a few questions because does it mean she died and went to hell? well i guess so lol, at least in this universe. but a lot of what exactly makes you go to Peklo or what it's like outside of it i either haven't outlined in detail or don't want to explicitly define in the first place.

i'm also not sure whether she is also a little kid like in Rental. she retains her childishness and i had Kiku comment on it in the Peklo zine i made, but i think of all the Peklo characters like souls a bit outside of time. like their personality is just their true essence and not necessarily a ghost replica of the way they were exactly when they died. i also never want to provide an official human appearance or any other life details for any of them, even when i have drawn them as humans myself before i think of it as not necessarily canon.

i've rambled a lot but maybe Umi was just directly teleported to Peklo after being trapped in the Rental House lmao.