#troutc updates

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[ Silverstar calls a Clan meeting! ]

"Friends and visitors, gather around! I, Silverstar of TroutClan, have come to deliver great news!

*rustles open a letter*

After many cats had casted their votes on a decision made millions of seasons ago, the fate of how TroutClan's story will be told has finally been decided!

From now until the final moon, our story will now be told as...

a VISUAL NOVEL!!!!!

To clarify, our story won't be an actual visual novel video game. Instead, it'll be a sequence of images! Me and the rest of my Clanmates will each have our own sprites, for moods & appearance changes. For the more serious matters (like a new cat joining us, for example), those will receive their own illustrated pictures!

A huge thank you to those that participated in the poll to help decide how TroutClan's story should be told!

That is all for today's Clan meeting! I may be getting old, and we may have only just settled here in this territory at the seashore... but there's still a lot of seasons left in me to guide my Clan into many misadventures!

Happy fishing!"

- Silverstar, Leader of TroutClan

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TroutClan Update: The fate of the Clan is unclear to Silverstar... (poll included!)

it's been a while!

i've been focused on a lot of my other projects and had troutclan on hiatus for a few months- but during then, i was flip-flopping over how i should go about doing the moons

i was gonna settle with switching between comics and the single drawings i'd do in my older Moons art, but ive had two other ideas: A visual novel or an animated series! I have a poll at the end of the post for y'all to decide what you wanna see, but here's a quick explanation of the two ideas I've had in mind:

a visual novel! this won't be playable and, instead, just be screenshots styled like a visual novel! the characters will each have their own sprites, including having sprites for different emotions/scenarios. there will be a little icon near the dialogue box to show if the interaction was good, bad, etc. for more serious moments, there will be fully illustrated pieces behind the dialogue. here's a quick example (the background wont be a solid color like this, they'll be different based on the cats' location):

And the other idea i've had to do the moons was...

2) an animated video series! this will have limited animation, meaning there will be little to no animated movements (like a PMV, picture music video). i'll try to make an original troutclan soundtrack for this, if this option ends up having the most votes! i'm thinking about having the artstyle and music taking inspiration from the cutscenes from Hotel Mario! Or just inspiration from the CD-i game cutscenes in general.

but that's about it! out of all of these, the animated video option would take me the longest, since i have an animated video i've been procrastinating i'm currently doing

Alright that's enough yapping LOL!!! HERE'S THE POLL!!! It end in one week from now, so I'll post an update with the results then!

What visual style would you be interested in seeing TroutClan's story being told?

a comic

a visual novel

an animated video series

a sequence of single drawings (like my older moons)

Voting ended onMay 20, 2025

[troutclan]

| WELCOME TO TROUTCLAN! (WE HAVE FISH!!!) |

"We have fish :)" — Silverstar, probably

🔷 START HERE!! 🔷

🐟 ALLEGIANCES 🐟

0 Moons (Founding Members) | 25 Moons (soon...)

🐟 TAGS DIRECTORY 🐟

#troutc moons — the moon tracker! this is where the story can be read #troutc art — all TroutClan-related art #troutc fics — written short stories featuring the TroutClan cats #troutc lore — any form of media (drawings, writings, etc) about TroutClan that happens outside of or behind the scenes of the moon updates #troutc memes — all TroutClan memes (includes drawings, incorrect quotes, and more) #troutc sprites — all of my designs are heavily stylized, so some people may wanna see how their in-game sprites look! #troutc asks — answered asks, for me and/or the TroutClan characters! #troutc updates — any updates related to the progress of TroutClan, which may include art wips, moon wips, in-game happenings, etc.

TroutClan Introduction below!

Silverwatcher formed many friendships throughout her youth as a wandering rogue. She kept the tradition of her Clan ancestry alive: by forming a Clan with her friends! They went on many whacky adventures, getting into trouble with Twolegs, even outsmarted a pack of wolves! But when most of them became senior warriors, with three friends called the Tricky Three joining them soon after (Violetkit, Tempestkit, and Flykit), Silverwatcher decided "all this traveling is fun, but let's find a permanent home to settle down & think about our future".

...And thus TroutClan became official! Once they settled into their camp, this was when Shiveringpaw (a RiverClan apprentice from seasons ago) met Silverwatcher in her dream, guiding her to the Moonshore, their source to StarClan, to receive her nine lives.