#amyadzuki

[amyadzuki]

Please check us out! We only have about 30 members right now but the server itself is very far along! We have about 50 active and well-designed channels so far. All we need now is higher membership! We have built it; will you come?

LGBTQIA+ safe

Sex work friendly

Active members ≈24/7

Roleplay (SFW and 18+)

BDSM games (18+)

Porn channels (18+)

Trade social accounts

Free ad space for sex workers

IMPORTANT: Almost all channels are hidden to new members! To be able to view them, simply state your pronouns and BDSM role in #choose-a-role and wait for me to grant you access.

(Pretty please reblog this?)

[amyadzuki]

Petition

Petition to make 21 February "Vagina Day" so when people say "happy v day" you can reply "no, that's not until next week".

[amyadzuki]

It has been ~4 weeks

If my artists don't come back soon then I might not let them come back. I have worked every single day except for christmas eve when we were out of town. I even worked christmas day. My artists all left without a word 4 weeks ago and I have needed them badly since then! If anybody is interested in game art or music and doesn't mind the fact that I can't pay right now then please hit me up. Anyone who helps at all gets their name in the credits and we can discuss payment if you help out a lot (it will have to be a small percentage of the eventual profit, and probably capped after a few years).

You must fit the following criteria:

Everyone

You must keep details about the game secret until the first public pre-release.

You are interested in game development.

You are not in it for the money (you won't make much, if anything at all).

You have played strategy games before and you don't hate them.

You don't hate cutesy or moé art styles.

You don't hate realistic, chibi, or cartoon art styles (I haven't yet decided which of these styles will be used).

You can log in to the group google doc at least about once a week to check in. You don't need to log in every day, but 4 weeks without a word is unacceptable. If you will need to leave for an extended time period then let me know first or after the first few days at most -- don't leave me wondering if you will ever come back like I am right now with my current team.

You won't get your feelings hurt if I ask you to change or redo something, or if I decide not to include something that I asked you to create.

Art team: 3D artists specializing in human models

You have used Blender before or are willing to learn

You are okay with working with nudity in 3D models (the game will not have nudity but one program that we use creates models without clothes and you will need to be okay with models not having clothing until you create something for them to wear).

Art team: 3D artists specializing in non-human models

You have used Blender before or are willing to learn.

You must be able to model objects in 3D, or be willing to learn how to do so. Unlike with the human models, I don't know of a program that does the rough draft for you, so you will have to model trees, rocks, etc from scratch.

Art team: 2D artists specializing in textures

You are able to use tools like GIMP or Photoshop to create square textures for 3D models

You are able to work with the 3D artists to create textures for their models.

Art team: 2D artists specializing in backgrounds

You are able to use tools like GIMP or Photoshop to create backgrounds, splash screens, loading screens, etc

Sound team

You must be able to figure out which tools to use and how to use them by yourself because I know next to nothing about sound so I won't be able to help you very much.

Development is fast-paced. My parents strongly hinted to me this fall that I need to be earning money by this summer or I could be kicked out of the house. I am not sure if they will actually do so but I want to try to get this game ready to sell by this summer just in case.

I am the only programmer and I would probably like to keep it that way for the first game. I need help with art and sound, but I have the programming pretty much covered.

The game will support at least Windows PC, Mac, Linux, and FreeBSD, and at least one of either Android or web browsers.

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[amyadzuki]

I made a Discord server! It is mostly for RP and smexy stuff, but I have been adding some SFW channels too. This join link does not expire but it only grants temporary membership -- becoming a permanent member is as simple as telling me your pronouns and waiting for me to add you to the corresponding role.

This server is still really new (it is approximately a day old at the time of this writing), so there are not too many members yet (13 permanent members right now). Please don't let the small number of members discourage you from staying; it is a new server, not a crappy one!

[amyadzuki]

So I‘m making a videogame

My parents recently told me that by this summer I basically need to be making money somehow or else I might get kicked out of the house. Even though my new anxiety medication is actually working pretty well, I feel like my social anxiety is still way too great for me to do well in a "normal" job. I was fired right away from Walmart because I wasn't able to function due to my anxiety.

So anyway, I was talking to some friends on another site (that Pokémon site I have been telling a few people about that I found recently) and we realized that we all have an interest in making videogames, and also we like the same sort of games, so I told them about this idea that I had recently and we were like "let's do this!" so I am actually lead on a really cool project right now!!!

Well things have been progressing rapidly, but it turns out that game making is extremely involved, and none of our artists have prior experience with 3D or have any idea how to animate 3D models. So I guess the point of this post is that I am looking for advice on how to do this, or for anyone with 3D experience and time to spare who might want to join the project.

We have collectively decided not to disclose many details about the game until after the first public pre-release (which absolutely must happen before this summer, and hopefully by mid-spring) so that another company can't take our ideas before we finish, but I should be able to reveal at least the following (sorry it isn't much):

It has a cutesy/moé 3D art style (look here or do a Google Image Search for "Touhou sprites" for an idea of what sort of art style we are considering, but imagine that sort of thing in 3D), and we are shooting for a T ESRB rating, possibly including content from the "alcohol reference", "drug reference", "fantasy violence", "language", "partial nudity", and/or "suggestive themes" categories.

A focus of the game is inclusion, so there will not be racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, or any other sort of bigotry in the game -- I wish this went without saying but sadly most games these days are awful in this regard.

I have been pouring all of my time (have you seen me much on Tumblr lately?) and money (about $500 USD and counting!) into making this work, and since I only have until this summer, this is an all-or-nothing sort of deal for me. I really, really need this to work.

If you think you might want to join, I need to be absolutely clear that you will probably not be making much money from this at all. Only ask to join if you want to have a fun experience and maybe have something cool to put on your résumé. I am nearly broke now and the rest of my money will go into the first year's worth of server hosting (if I can even afford it, I might need a loan!), so I can only pay with a percent of the eventual profits. Furthermore, that percent will need to be small because I have to start paying rent and holy crap that is expensive! The whole reason I started this project was so that I don't have to live on the streets, so paying rent will be my first monetary concern. I hope you understand.

Finally, due to the way our current art process works, you will need to be okay with working with nude models (3D renders, not real people), although the final product will not contain explicit nudity.

Thank you for reading and please keep me in your thoughts ♡ I love each and every one of my followers and I am so sorry that I have not been online much lately. I hope you understand. Take care everybody!!

-amy

P.S. You may reblog this if you like!

[amyadzuki]

Game Dev Update 2017-12-30

So you guys wanted me to keep you in the loop with my game, right? Well here's an update for the end of 2017! But first, a bit of a rant:

＜rant＞My entire team has been MIA since the 21st. So like I get that it is the holidays, but I am so excited about all the progress that I have made in the last nine days and I really want to show them, but like nobody has even come online except for like a minute each for two of them, and I don't even know if they read anything at all in the progress log because they really weren't online for very long. I'm so lonely!＜/rant＞

Now that I got that over with, let's move on to the fun stuff! For anyone who doesn't know yet, I am making a videogame!! ٩(ˊᗜˋ*)و I am lead on the project, the only programmer, and the sole owner of the company that will sell the game. I am really excited to be working on something so interesting! Here are what I feel are the most interesting details about what I have done since we started (according to the progress log, I started programming on 2017-12-16, but we were discussing ideas for a few days before both that and when I added the progress log):

The game currently has working menus, runs light and fast (actually a little bit too fast -- a bug is making it render at about 80-90 fps instead of 60 for some reason... gotta fix that), and the user interface is clean and professional. It renders a 3D scene under a simple gui (the gui can be turned on and off programmatically so it does not get in the way when it is not needed). UI buttons brighten on mouse hover and darken on click. The game saves its state in a way that will not cause the previous save file to be corrupted if the power goes out while overwriting a previous save. Oh, and the whole thing looks great at any aspect ratio, from tall 9:16 portrait-oriented mobile devices to 21:9 UltraWide(®?) displays in landscape, and the layout transitions seamlessly to accomodate a resizing window.

I am using C for almost everything, with just a little bit of C++ (amy is not a huge fan of C++ tbh) to interface with important C++ libraries such as ImGui. Graphics are done using OpenGL, and audio will probably be done in OpenAL. I am writing the "engine" code myself so that I don't have to conform to someone else's (often poor) design decisions or worry about paying royalties (yuck!).

I won't be able to answer questions about the gameplay or design yet, but I welcome comments and asks about my game! ✩°｡⋆ ٩(✿ ' ᴗ ' )۶ ⋆｡°✩ Take care and happy new year everybody!

[amyadzuki]

I’ve been feeling a little bit down over the past few days so I might not be on tumblr much this week. I will try to be on as much as possible, but I just don’t know how much that will be. BUT! I found a really cool pokémon site that I have been playing a lot lately, so find me on there if you want to battle ( =＾ω＾)

[amyadzuki]

xD how’d this become so casual, I thought you were humping a pillow

a mutual over IM