#sockdev talk

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Hey!!! Hey!!! The RPGMakers are on sale!! This is a GREAT opportunity for you aspiring gamedevs to pick them up!

MV (the one I use) is on for 7 dollars (6 if you're not Canadian...) and some are on for even cheaper!

Such as VX Ace!

IT'S FREE.

Go!

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This week or next week if all goes well.

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Happy Belated Red Leaves Anniversary!! I'm A Terrible Mom I Forgot

I released Red Leaves on February 8th 2025.

Notice how I'm making this post on February 28th-

I FORGOT. MY LIFE HAS BEEN HECTIC LATELY OK..

It's crazy weird how long it's been. A whole year since I finished that, that means I was working on this throughout 2024, oh god I hate the passage of time

Since then, I haven't made any progress or announcements on another game project. Even though I wanted to. And I did post a screenshot of an idea many months ago but that project is currently not being worked on indefinitely as I lost motivation for that specific one and wasn't happy with the direction.

I have a growing list of ideas I want to turn into short games. I've been playing more miscellaneous RPGMaker games on itchio and it's inspirational, and it reminds me why I love these kinds of games so much. I want to make a million more!!!!

Especially because I want to prove that I've learned from Red Leaves and can make something more refined and polished. Red Leaves was not perfect! And I knew that when I released it! I kind of let it be that way on purpose. I said it before, Red Leaves was my glorified experiment. Just to see what if I could make something, and to help me figure out RPGMaker. And boy do I have it figured out now

I want to make more games so badly it's annoying but it's so fun. My mind is just a very messy and busy place, not to mention my life and Being A Cashier

Red Leaves was an important milestone for me though and I really do appreciate all your support, kind words, critiques, artwork, and all of you that played it. Thank you!

I know I haven't been super active on this blog recently, the reasons are as stated above, but considering it's been a year since Red Leaves I'd love to answer any questions anyone has about the development or just little fun facts. :) I doubt there'll be any but hey I'm putting it out there

thank you red i love youuu

I hope to make something a little bigger next time. Something people can better sink their teeth into. And I want to actually advertise and promote it this time. And maybe even do dev logs. I want to be a better game developer!! I want to at least TRY and get people to see my work

I just need to get my act together LMAO

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Red Leaves 1.4 Patch

Red Leaves by SometimesStudios

A wolf killed your grandma and it keeps killing you too. What are you going to do?

Hello hello! Sorry for the silence! I know it's been months since the last patch but watching Joy stream the game last night kickstarted me a bit.

PATCH NOTES:

-Removed forest ambience playing during the first wolf cutscene

-You can no longer accidentally consume the certain materials and therefore softlock yourself

-The tutorial has been refined to have less awkward pacing when it comes to actually doing your turns

-The woodcutter's skill now costs Energy to use as it didn't before for some reason

-There was one line in the game that used "Red" instead of "You" in its narration and I fixed that

-You can no longer access the mouse room. It's a pretty pointless room to have since the little side-event I planned for it is currently unused. Maybe one day...

-Changed the layout for the save menu and your regular item menu. They are now the default appearance as I found the layouts added by plugins looked really messy and crowded. Sometimes, simple is best for some things!

There are some other things I'm still aware of that are not necessarily fixed in this patch and I will get to those another day.

Aside from Red Leaves, here's a personal update from me below if you're interested:

It's been very quiet on this blog. I'd apologize but we were pretty clear about why we're called Sometimes Studios LOL. I know there were many instances where I kept saying "yup, we've got a project we're working on" or "we've got a new project" etc, several times over, and that was dumb.

I keep luring myself into a false sense of confidence with ideas that I get on whims. It's not even necessarily all that because they are ideas I really want to make, I have many game project concepts on the mental bench that I want to make. But from now on I just need to be a little more chill about it. I'm pretty sure I know what I want my next game to be, but I likely won't get to it for awhile. I've finally picked up a piece of media that grabs my attention again, something I've been longing for for months, and gotta get it out of my system and enjoy the high while it lasts. It's currently all I can think about lately so there's no chance in game dev for awhile. All in all, I've mostly been taking a break. Not to mention I've been working a lot recently. Being a cashier sucks ass!!

However even if I'M not heading a project, that doesn't mean nothing is happening: One of us IS currently chipping away at heading a project. We'll see what happens and maybe you'll start hearing about it.

Thank you for your continued support!

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I ONLY DROPPED THE GAME YESTERDAY AND WE'VE ALREADY SURPASSED 100 DOWNLOADS!!! THANK YOU GUYS SO MUCH!!

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Update!

So you can probably tell by the blog updating (for those confused, this was sock-devdiary), but something has changed!

Me, @chipistrate , and @the-real-aurora-borealis , two of my very close friends who helped a lot with the behind the scenes for Red Leaves, have grouped together to form a little gamedev team!!

Sometimes Studios!!

I've adjusted the blog to fit. Don't worry, I'll still be the one running this blog and answering asks and whatnot, but! We're a thing now and we do things. sometimes. haha get it. From now on projects will be under that name and we'll be working on things together. We're hoping to have fun!!

And like I briefly mentioned the other day, we ARE working on a new project.

This is all you get to see for now <3

As for other updates, like I said yesterday with the 1.3 patch, I'm still working on other patches, please continue to let me know on any you find, I appreciate it!

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THIS IS NOT A DRILL!

Red Leaves will drop WITHIN THE HOUR!! I THINK! AT LEAST HALF AN HOUR! OR MORE!!!!!!!!

GET READY!!!

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This technically Shouldn't go here because this isn't necessarily a Sometimes Studios thing BUT at the end of the day this is still my game dev blog I can do what I want forever.

Here's some teasers of a project me and my friend @moog-enthusiast are working on in the background! Still very early on and obvs life gets busy but! I've been chipping away at putting tilesets and sprites together.

It's our own take on an RPGMaker Horror + Mascot Horror. Take that as you will. No, there's no ghosts.

Been really excited and motivated about it lately so I thought I'd show my work so far. Yay!