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Happy Halloween, everyone!

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Devlog: Putting the “Character” in Characters

Howdy folks! Welcome to another devlog, in which we’re going to go into the process of adding an NPC character for the game.

And for our example, we’ll use Paper Frisk, who is a well known part of the main cast. (Paper did not agree to this.)

The first step to adding a character into the game is, of course, getting permission from the original author to put them into the game. Of course, this is sometimes not required, due to some authors allowing people to put their AUs in any project without any permission, but we prefer to have express permission if possible.

So, for re-enactment purposes, we will pretend to ask Fms if they can let us have Paper Frisk in the game. 

*walks in and out of the room* 

Great! It took us 2 years of hard, hair-pulling negotiations, but we finally got the rights.

The process of writing is a process we generally want to do alongside the creators themselves, but we do a fair amount of research into the projects ourselves as well to make sure we don’t make something that’s too out of character. 

This is doubled if we want to make two AU Characters interact with each other— which, we of course do.

Every NPC in the game has several possible reactions to events in the game:

- Standard dialogues, which is talking to them normally- which may not be affected by something else.

- Approaching them while wearing an outfit, which they can comment on.

- Approaching them with a follower (with which they can have a back and forth with).

Of course, if an NPC has a Quest associated with them, that quest takes priority over any dialogue trees. 

But of course, that’s just on the writing side of things— afterwards, it’s a matter of drawing talksprites and overworld sprites for the characters. We generally want to give most characters the ability to look in the direction Poppy’s at.

Some of our ideas also include making characters walk around in the overworld. Not like Earthbound— which featured characters that could randomly walk wherever they pleased, mind you, but enough to make the place feel more alive.

All in all, NPCs in this game should be chockfull of dialogue for people to discover.  With that in mind we also wanted to quickly discuss how characters work on a more technical and lower level side. 

This game is going to have a lot of characters, and we mean A LOT. So it’s very important that our method of handling characters is not only modular, but flexible enough to allow for just about any character to work with very minimal setup. Both non-playable characters and playable characters, in this case just Poppy, all inherit behavior from a singular 'character’ class. In this class we define several properties to easily allow for different behavior to occur. We can have characters follow pre-defined paths in the plaza, as mentioned before. We can also alter the speed at which characters walk and run, we can have characters show a bubble over their head if they play a role in a certain quest, and we can even have characters play certain sounds when they walk around. But most importantly, every character has a Sprite Table...

It’s rather uhhh... non-intuitive to look at first, but let’s break it down a little bit.

We store all of the character’s (in this case Poppy. Thank you for being our guinea pig today, Poppy) main sprites in a 2-Dimensional grid, or a double nested array if you’re familiar with GML.

When we access any sprite in this structure we need to provide 2 indices. In this table, the first index points to the character’s state, so they can be Idle, Walking, or what have you. Our second index points to what direction they’re currently facing, so South, East, North, and West.

Every frame the character is on-screen, their respective table is looked in to based off of their current state and their sprite is updated accordingly. With this system we can account for idle-animations, non-symmetrical character sprites, and sprites of arbitrary sizes, all out of the box and without extra logic.

In a future devlog we will discuss in-depth on how we handle cutscenes and events and how we easily included quite literally hundreds of different dialogue branches and events into the game, and how this system allows us to flesh out our characters and easily allow for so many scenarios. We hope this has been very insightful, and we hope you look forward to our next devlog. - Yoshikins, Lead Programmer

While we’re on the topic of characters, and as a gentle reminder, we have AU submissions for the game open still! So be sure to send your project for our consideration.

- Fms, Lead Director

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ESP: No podría dibujar bien a un Gaster ni para salvar mi vida...

¡Hey! Resulta que hoy, 17 de septiembre, es el cumpleaños de Dusted - del AU Impulse Break blog @ut-poppy-askblog - si por alguno razón no lo has visto, te recomiendo definitivamente darle una leída.

¡Hoy también es mi cumpleaños!, así que como regalo de cumpleaños para mí (?) y Dusted, decidí hacer este pequeño dibujito, el cual me parece gratificante porque es un gran paso considerando que solo solía dibujar personajes de pie.

ENG: Can’t draw a Gaster properly to save my life...

Hey! So, turns out today is Dusted’s birthday. Dusted comes from the AU Impulse Break, but they’re also a prominent character in the Omega Timeline blog; Poppy’s Story. Check it out if you haven’t ‘cause it’s a really good story.

Today’s also my birthday!! (Thanks Toby for releasing Chapter 2 of Deltarune as a birthday gift), so as a present to both myself (?) and Dusted, I decided to draw this li’l picture. And boy am I proud of my improvement considering I used to draw only idle characters.

Credits:

Poppy, Paper, and I think Fling Dings belong to @fmsdraws/ @ut-poppy-askblog​

Core and Mr. Asgore belong to @dokudoki/@corefrisk

Dusted and Rust belong to @ut-impulse-break/Dihze

Monarch Chara, UC Frisk and Ucans belong to @lolika-0777

Underswap Papyrus belongs to Hatsune Miku.

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Some Undertoad x PaperStory sheninegans

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Crossover Special - Paper Mishaps

On today’s episode of Undertoad... Hey, what in tarnation is going on here? What is this, a crossover episode?

If you’re new to Undertoad, read from the beginning here. This will give you a link to the original Tumblr post, or a direct link to the album of every previous chapter. 

And if you’re new to PaperStory, read from the beginning here. This will link you to the story.

... That’s right, folks! @undertoad-au​ and PaperStory crossover in this relatively short comic. I was actually allowed to utilize Undertoad assets for this (though I course made my own custom poses for this as well). I’d like to thank LucasPucas for helping me with the script, too! I always wanted to make a crossover thing like this.

(P.D. the crossover is not canon to both AUs.)

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ACT 1 Side Characters

For the characters that don't get bios, but do exist in ACT 1.

Underswap Papyrus - Age: 24 - Pronouns: he/him - Genocide Timeline Survivor, enjoyer of Oatmeal, trying to work on everything at once.

Paper!Frisk - Age: 19 - Pronouns: he/him - Thinner Frisk, Dusted’s best friend, bigger adventure…?

Fling Ding Gaster - Age: 32 - Pronouns: he/him - Timeline Erasure Survivor, Omega Timeline Scientist, Creator of Poppy’s SOUL.

Chara (Cookie) - Age: 18 - Pronouns: They/Them - Dusted’s Datemate, chef in training, liberator of Monsterkind in their timeline.

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In which attempts were made.

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Welcome, potential reader, to the— as for now incomplete character masterpost! This post is made for the purposes of making character bios more easily accessible to mobile and desktop users alike.

(Keep in mind, all of these characters come from different timelines.)

Main Cast

The main cast with full blown bios. Now featuring a division between Acts.

NOTE: Bios may be updated overtime.

Poppy - ACT 1 | ACT 2

Protagonist, adoptive granddaughter of CORE!Frisk, Omega Timeline native.

CORE!Frisk - ACT 1 | ACT 2

Founder of the Omega Timeline, Poppy's guardian/parental figure, omnipresent entity in the multiverse.

Dusted!Frisk - ACT 1 | ACT 2

Poppy's adoptive sibling, protector of friends and family, blunt and straightforward.

Rust - ACT 1 | ACT 2

Dusted's robotic replica, Poppy's adoptive sibling, stern.

Monarch Chara - ACT 1

Ruler and Ambassador of Monsterkind, Poppy's idol figure, Burdened with the truth.

Mr. Asgore - ACT 1 | ACT 2

Poppy's grandgrandparent figure, former ruler of former monsterkind, first Omega Timeline native.

UnderCore!Frisk (UC) - ACT 1 | ACT 2

Arguably competent scientist, Poppy's former-crush currently aunt figure, has no dating game.

undercore!Sans (ucans) - act 1 | act 2

sans, lemon-aid creator, head honcho of the lemonaid stand.

Cadence - ACT 2

Orphan teen, unfulfilled, and with god powers.

Marlette - ACT 2

Artificial daughter, mildly lonely, and Poppy's childhood friend.

Fasha - ACT 2

Poppy's Therapist, Omega Timeline resident, and mildly resentful.

Side Characters - ACT 1 | ACT 2

Non Canon Oddity

(NON CANON) MTT Poppy and Frisk - Underground idols, robotic family, living a happy life... Aprils Fools...?