#fangame help

[starbrewstudios]

Undertale: Rebirth is still looking for Sprite Artist (Battle sprites, Tileset, & illustration/Background) & Programmers (Room makers).

We really need help to turn Rebirth into a full length fangame! Even if you don't apply please help us by spreading the word!

You must be 13 years or older to apply.

For programmers you must know how to code in GameMaker Studio 2 and know how to make rooms. We're mainly searching for those who are skilled at room making on GMS2 itself and coding in the engine.

Programmer Application; https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfJnCE1W7trpGllB2IxYOgsf-CQlDntnOmo1kS9gKu_949LmA/viewform

You must be 13 years or older to apply.

For Sprite Artist you must have at least a few examples of your work showcasing the skills you have and are comfortable working in.

Sprite Artist Application: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeX2J9cyTBjrLs49fsLuOThL0rMb3FLRKyBOc6YJOdJaSgvNQ/viewform?usp=preview

Applications will close once we reach full capacity! If we don't contact you during the time period that applications are open, then it means that we will not be accepting your application.

Thank you all for your time, we hope you all have a wonderful rest of your week!

[dennys-at-3-am]

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SEMI IMPORTANT, PLEASE READ!!!

AHEM!! DO YOU LIKE DIALTOWN??? DO YOU WANNA BE PART OF A SUPER AWESOME FANGAME? WELL! THIS POST IS FOR YOU!!

I NEED AT *LEAST* 4 MODELS THAT ARE 18 OR OLDER, TWO FEM AND TWO MASC ! ! (Anyone who contacts me after getting all the dateable's models can still apply to be a non-dateable!)

As for characters, we only have the female characters planned out at the moment! If you would be willing to model and have a masc oc, we can add them into the game! You'd get to direct their route for the most part, since you probably know your oc better than I do 💔

As for the fem models, whoever applies will be picked to be one of two characters!

I ask that you dm me with a picture of you standing upright, hands at your sides! I'd also like a general idea of what kind of clothes you own, but those kinda matter less than the photo lmao,, you can submit the photo with your face censored or cropped, it's up to you!

SO! that is that!! please message me with the info mentioned above, as well as any further questions you may have ! !

Whoever reaches out first will PROBABLY get a part, cause i'm kind of desperate 💔

Thank you in advance if you do decide to reach out!!!

[luckcycler]

From someone who's making a danron project to another, can I ask how you determine things like the trials, investigations, evidence, etc? I'm having a lot of trouble coming up with how to write something cohesive OTL. Do you just outline the general development and go from there?

hi! sorry for the late reply! (I'm on holidays r n so I'm replying a little late to things)

Yeah...that's the hardest part in my opinion

What I usually do is I work the case backwards and think first what happened and then I try to make it more complex and see how I could translate those actions into visual clues in the crime scene for the player to pick up. I basically make a shitty summary of the order of the events that take place during the murder.

Then I do a rough version of the investigation and I'm not too bothered if all the clues are not in their place etc. since I'm planning on going back to do a second draft of it.

Next I do a quick shitty summary of the trial. Usually during this moment I try to figure out in what order I want to reveal things. Basically view it as small logic puzzles that when figured out make a whole. (If you are having trouble with how to start a trial, start with one of the things you point out in the Monokuma file such as time of death or cause of death.)

The flow of logic is super hard to figure out and sometimes you might have to switch things around. For my fifth trial I actually had to take out sticky notes and wrote all the points I wanted to discuss and have an answer for on them and then I placed them in the order I thought was the best (took me like 3 days to figure the right order and kept switching things around, it's complicated).

After I have my shitty summary and order of events figured out I do my first draft of the trial. Usually at this point I figure out if I need more truth bullets to be added in the scene or if they need to be worded differently.

Then I jump back to the investigation and fix it to reflect better the trial.

Then I go back to the trial and fix that.

so basically:

shitty short summary on order of events that happened during the murder

translate that to visual clues to be added in the crime scene and make a shitty first draft of investigation (it's okay if things are missing, usually you are gonna run into a logic problem (or several) when you are doing the trial and figure out what is missing then)

summary in which the order of events needs to be solved at the trial (flow of logic) (use sticky notes or other things that make it easier for you to visualize and switch the order around)

shitty first draft of the trial

go back to fix the investigation with the new information you figured out from doing the shitty first draft of the trial

go back to fix the trial

repeat last two steps until it's all good (??? profit)

sometimes I go back and forth between the investigation and the trial multiple times

I hope the way I do this helps you to figure out your own method! I definitely could be more orderly with it but I've found that this works the best for me.

Also, figuring that stuff out takes a long time, one investigation + trial can take me like... 2 months to do...

[starbrewstudios]

Undertale Brave Beginnings is looking for more team members! + Min Update! (Artwork made by Luz the aurora)

Application Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdWdY5EmbQMYm4Tz4VXtEa6DmpgYowlamMc_zuWNMM2CcHtTw/viewform

We need Spriters, Coders, Concept Artist, and Music Composers!

Pixel Art- We need Battle Sprite, Overworld, Tileset, & Background Artist

Battle Sprite- We are looking for spriters who can draw and animate Undertale Battle Sprites.

Tile set- We are looking for spriters who can create tilesets that can be used for area/map design & creation. There is no special criteria for this role.

Overworld- We need overworld spriters for both Characters and environments!

Background- We are looking for spriters who can draw backgrounds for in game use/ There is no special criteria for this role. Any animated Backgrounds may be done by you or the teams animators. [EXAMPLES DOWN BELOW]

Concept Art- Environmental/Area, & In Game Events

Environmental/Area- We are looking for concept artist who can draw concept art of in game locations and possible sub areas for said locations. There is no special criteria for this role.

In Game Events- Certain in games events like a cut scene, character interactions, etc. There is no special criteria for this role.Music Composer - We need music composers who can really help bring the game to life by help making an awesome soundtrack. There is no special criteria for this role.

Coder- We need more programmers to help turn Undertale Brave Beginnings into reality! Must have experience in GMS2

If you’re interested, here’s the application form!: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdWdY5EmbQMYm4Tz4VXtEa6DmpgYowlamMc_zuWNMM2CcHtTw/viewform

Update on The Battle System!

Hey guys! Quick update. The base UT engine for UTBB is complete! Now we are moving on to room/level design and UI changes.

We plan on changing the fight button UI and are currently juggling concepts for it. The thing is- [SPOILORS FOR UTBB]

Valor will have four slots. WEAPON, ARMOR, HANDWEAR & SIGIL.

[EVERYTHING HERE IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE]

HANDWEAR is where items like the tough glove (An item you get later in the game) goes once equipped and WEAPONS and ARMORS will work like they do in base game Undertale. For the fight button, we plan on having it take both the WEAPON slot and HANDWEAR slot into account. And because we believe in quality over quantity we will be working hard trying to find a new mechanic that will be new and fun to use. Sadly this may delay any gameplay videos minus a few in-game areas sometime in the near future. We have plans to make a 3-5 min gameplay video showcasing the new battle system + reveal the first area of the game ^^. Oh, and you may have noticed a slot that says SIGIL. . . . Don't worry about that for now

And yes, you do have 15/15 HP at the beginning on the game. There will be ways you can increase your HP. . . One of them I'm sure you're very very familiar with = )

Demo?

The team has been making good progress so far. However, we have decided to take a different approach when releasing the Demo. Following in the foot steps of the main project that inspired Undertale Brave Beginnings (That being Undertale Kindred Spirits by PurrSum ) We are releasing two Prologues to Undertale: Brave Beginnings. It will go as follows

- Prologue- Begin Again (Part 1)

- Three Character reveals/bios

- Prologue- 365 Days (Part 2)

- 1 character reveal/bio

- Full Release

- Full OST Soundtrack release

(Clarification: The prologue for UTBB is just the demo with a fancy name lol)

There is a reason we have split the prologue into two parts. The start of UTBB will be important. It will serve as an introduction to the story and used as a stepping stone for what's to come. The choices you make will have consequences later on. And due to how the story is set up, we feel like this was the best decision. With that being said, we are going back to rewriting somethings regarding the first prologue to make sure it has a smooth transition (and to improve some of the dialog as well). Now why did we give them these names? . . . You'll just have to wait and se ^^

We will also be aiming for a 2025-2027 window for the first prologue however this may change later on so we can not make any promises at this time.

In terms of writing, We went back and rewrote some stuff for the prologue, and the cast for area 2 have their designs finalized but won't be fully reveled just yet.

MISC.

Taking inspiration from DELTARUNE and Undertale: KINDRED SPIRITS. We've made Battle Icons for Valor and other party members (Who are yet to be revealed) Here are Valor's! (and before you ask, yes we did get permission from one of the UTKS devs to do something like this)

(Made by the teams amazing new sprite artist mono_chrome!)

Concept Art

Here’s some concept art for the games story and old promotional material! However. . . You get zero context ^^

(Concepts made by @hollowgears )

Anyway, that’s all for now. See you next update!

[luckcycler]

Hi! I'd like to ask which game engine are you using to make your game? I'm looking for a beginner friendly game engine for game genres like visual novels,rpg maker horror adventure games,games like Undertale and 2.5d games,early play station games with low poly models and textures. I thought i could ask just in case. Thank you in advance! Really looking forward to your amazing project!

Hi!

We use Godot as our game engine for Heartbreak. We use Godot because while heartbreak is a visual novel, we use a 3D space and our gameplay loop is a bit more complicated than an average visual novel would be.

Godot has a lot of pros and cons as I think it's a bit more friendly than Unity because it was designed for making indie games and uses it's own coding language and also has visual scripting. However, since it is a newer program and has it's own language, there aren't as many tutorials as something like Unity would if you are looking for something specific.

Other more beginner friendly options:

Gamemaker: I haven't tried this myself but I heard it's been made very beginner friendly, although I think it's more limited compared to Godot

RPG Makers: These are specifically if you want to make rpg games like Undertale. (You can go more experimental with them though i.e. Hylics, Fear & Hunger, Lisa) You can get these programs from Steam and they can be VERY EXPENSIVE... at least the newest one, there is a sale right now where the one from 2015 is 12 euros. You don't have to know a lot of coding for these unless you want to do something out of the ordinary.

Ren'py: This is a visual novel program and has a lot of tutorials if you want a classic visual novel look.

All of these except for the RPG makers are free!

I hope this helps! :D Good luck and thank you! ✨

[luckcycler]

how do you choose the color scheme for your fangan characters I'm trying to figure out how to add the main colors of my fangan onto my character but it always makes them look jarring when put together by themselves there fine but matching the aesthetics and colors of the other characters and the setting always gives me a hard time

hi! I'm a bit sick right now so I hope I'll make sense So you are having a hard time having all the character color palettes fit together as a cast? I don't know what your characters look like but there's a couple of things you can take into consideration

Have some rules

it's important that you lay some rules for how your colors behave in your fangan. The original games have a very washed out palette and characters that are very colorful like Ibuki still don't get very saturated. If one of your characters is more saturated or desaturated than the others, they will stand out. Also make rules on how dark or light a color can go in your work.

For instance, I never use pure white, gray, or black. It's always another color. If you look at Kiwa, She has what I would interpret as white and black colors, but in reality they are muted light yellow and dark purple. The same goes with Tetsu, his hat is black but it is actually really dark blue and his sweater is a cream color.

You can do pure blacks, greys and whites, but then the entire cast needs to go by that rule.

Color balance

You need to make sure that the colors aren't fighting each other. You need to have a main color, a secondary color and then a highlight. Whites, blacks, and greys and skin tone are usually not part of this rule, unless the skin tone is like... blue. You can also use black, white or grey as the main color too.

keep the rest of your cast in mind when coloring

I made sure my cast has a lot of different colors and that max 2 people would have the same main color. If you have two people with the same main color, make the secondary color different. It's good to make sure that your cast is unique while cohesive. Something I had beef with the V3 cast was that there were too many characters with the same palette. Either they were black and white or had a very dark color overall. This made characters like Angie and Miu stand out but the rest was very much a blob of light and dark colors.

Own it

to be fair, you can also use the colors not fitting with the rest of the cast as a visual narrative (i.e. if your character likes to stand out, or is an outcast)

[luckcycler]

how do you measure Hight and Wight of your characters it is always hard for me to do also do you have a Hight chart of the Heartbreak cast

you can google "height chart" and you can use one of them as the background to see how tall everyone is! I figured my characters' heights more or less that way. I did need to do a bit of estimation for characters who have heels or are usually hunched over a little

And here is a neat website to visualize what your character's body type's height and weight could be LINK

and here is an old line up of my chars (I have no idea why I put Kana there since she is shorter than Kohaku)

[luckcycler]

Might be a stupid question,but i'm really struggling with coming up with the location for my story's killing game.

Could you,please,recommend something or share any thoughts on that matter?

I'd really like to hear someone's opinion on that matter,so anyone else can also write their suggestions in the comments.

I really hope that i'm not bothering you too much.

Thank you in advance!

couple of ways to figure out the location:

Does it have a thematic or narrative purpose to what you want to tell with your story?

Can you think of locations or objects within that area that could serve narrative purpose in the killing or the plot?

Does it fit the mastermind?

Is it visually interesting?

Does it have a thematic or narrative purpose to what you want to tell with your story?

For example, maybe your game theme is about... unfair juridical systems and about prison abolishment, maybe a prison might be a good idea then? Or the themes are about overperforming and unrealistic standards/expectations. In that case, maybe a performing place like a circus or a theater could be an idea?

Can you think of locations or objects within that area that could serve narrative purpose in the killing or the plot?

Can you think of any interesting ways of killing people in this environment you have chosen? are there maybe cool objects that are usual for this place that might be visually interesting and gives you enough inspirations to write a murder or a plot point about?

Does it fit the mastermind?

In the end, the mastermind is the one who put all of this together, so the people behind the game are the ones who get to choose what the location is and what it looks like. What would fit that mastermind and their aesthetics then? Or what does the mastermind want to convey through the location?

Is it visually interesting?

Fuck it, do you just think this location would be cool as hell as the killing game grounds? Go for it! Heartbreak's area is literally pink because it's my favorite color and I've added over sized nails and bolts and broken metal grids etc. to make it look very tongue and cheek repaired because I liked the oversized bolts in the dr games and I grew up on Rayman 2 and 3)

these are just some guidelines that might help you choose a place, you don't have to use all of these methods! Just try to figure out which ones of these are helpful to you