A little different post, but I am outlining the next update for JACKKNIFE. I have the structure done but I wanted to see what the gooners people would like to see in the game.
This could be certain scenarios or situations MC finds herself in with Jackie. Or if you have specific preferences you’d like to see, such as certain dynamics, tropes, and etc(these can be nsfw just don’t be overly explicit please.)
These won’t be guaranteed to be in the game but just serve as inspiration for scenes. You can send a reply on this post, or if your shy send an anonymous ask about what you would like to see. just have this emoji combo so I know you don’t want me to directly answer: ❤️🦇. Thank you!
All routes have been play-tested and read through, though some errors and bugs may still be present. Next week I’ll be focusing on drawing whatever CGs I feel are necessary, and the week after that will be making the game page and getting the art-book ready. and by Dec 20–21 I should be able to release the recut version. It won’t be perfect since some side characters will still have their old sprites and a few backgrounds won’t be redrawn, but the story should be improved and the main cast will have updated sprites (except for Lexi and Sierra, I’m sorry, but I don’t want to rush them). This’ll be the beta version, that I’ll improve on over time, with yall being able to give feedback on what you like and don’t like.
I’m setting and posting this date so if I delay again you can hit me over the head with a pan as I just want to get it out or else I’ll wait forever for it to be perfect which I can’t do.
And I just want to reiterate that I’m so thankful for the people that still follow this game and its development and I hope it’s lives up to expectations. As a early Christmas gift have the game logo and cover page
I’ll let it be known now, that the exhaust pipe scene™️ that’s gonna be in JACKKNIFE was made from my own twisted mind. I did not get that from an ask suggestion 😭👏
Yippie! The beta release of the recut has been published!
Well everybody. It’s here! Monster Sweethearts Recut beta release(A day late, sorry about that, laptop having problems). I hope you enjoy it
A day later than expected but it’s finally done!(for the most part haha still have a long way to go.) a special thanks to everyone who still follows the project it means the world to me ❤️
I hope to make a pateron in a few days so anyone who would like to support me further can get extra sneak peeks!
Victoria ramblings from when I was trying to piece together her route, I also added other thoughts I’ve had today, but you may scroll if you don’t want to listen to me be crazy for these two
(Also note, these are my thoughts and should not be what your interpretation should be, I don’t want my thoughts like this to be treated as gospel, take your own meaning from the canon material, and shouldn’t sway what you think, you can completely disagree and be correct. That’s the great part of getting your own meaning and I love seeing them)
Of course it’s way more complicated than what I’m saying here, but Jaylene’s and Victoria’s relationship is so interesting because even years after their breakup, they would still put the other first if it ever came down to it. Of course Victoria would fold if Jaylene called her decades later and said she wanted her back, that’s obvious.(lips of an angel starts playing)
Jaylene, however, is a little more complex. She still loves Victoria at her core, and she’s still mad at Victoria for making her care. Even outside of Victoria’s route, even while in an active relationship, if something bad happened to Victoria, Jaylene would come running. She’d do it with full stubbornness and sarcasm to hide how she really feels but she would make sure Victoria was okay. She doesn’t want to see Victoria hurt, ever, no matter what she says.
The truth is, if Victoria in her route fell to her knees crying about how much she missed Jaylene and opened up, and that part is important, about her scars, her past and why she did what she did, Jaylene would fold. There would be no route, it would last a few scenes at most.
Obviously that doesn’t happen, because Victoria is scared of being vulnerable. She’s scared that opening up would scare Jaylene away, when that vulnerability is exactly what Jaylene wants and needs. Victoria isn’t dumb, she’s been conditioned for years to hide her true self and become a different person to protect herself, one that hides behind money and shallowness. No matter how much she tries to work on herself in the small ways, if she doesn’t acknowledge that core truth, it’s doomed. They’re forever doomed. I honestly can’t imagine them working it out in the other routes.
That’s why it hurts. They’re so close. They would fall into each other’s arms in an instant if Victoria just spoke up, but that’s her greatest curse, not her scars or whatever her mean girl friend group did. Even in her own route, it takes so much for her to see the bigger picture. To realize that what Jaylene wants most is her biggest fear, being fully known by the one person she loves unconditionally, and facing the tiniest possibility that Jaylene’s love isn’t and that she would leave. To Victoria, that distance hurts less than that possibility ever could.
So instead, she keeps her distance. She tries to rebuild without digging into the past. She avoids talking about what happened and hopes Jaylene won’t dive deeper. She gives gifts, kind gestures, and acts like nothing happened. But the fact that Jaylene rejects those things is proof that Jaylene cares about the truth, no matter how bad it is.
This whole rant started cause I was listening to “too little too late” by jojo and got reminded of them lmao
Hello everyone, just wanted to come here and promote my Patreon! I’m just starting out and definitely not a professional by any means (really selling myself hard here, haha), but I hope with time I can create something awesome with you all!
Of course, only if you're able to financially support me. I’m not expecting 5 quadrillion dollars here just for some yuri, but any amount, from one dollar to two patrons, or even none, means the whole world to me, and you get some awesome benefits too! And if you can’t, that’s always fine as well, just following and being active in the community is support enough ❤️❤️
And if you have been following me for some time, you may know I’m not that active on social media💀 but with patron I’ll post way more doodles and other things related to the development of the MS recut and eventually Cryptid courting which is my other dating sim I started years ago. But thank you all!
