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[xumbra]

This animation is based on a scene from Today's Menu for the Emiya Family.

init: image cafe night = "images/bg/cafe_night_A.jpg" image mc_test = "images/sprites/mc/mc_neutral.png" image mc_red = im.MatrixColor( "images/sprites/mc/mc_neutral.png", im.matrix.colorize("#000", "#F00")) image mc_lightgreen = im.MatrixColor( "images/sprites/mc/mc_neutral.png", im.matrix.colorize("#000", "#80FF00")) image mc_teal = im.MatrixColor( "images/sprites/mc/mc_neutral.png", im.matrix.colorize("#000", "#0FF")) image mc_purple = im.MatrixColor( "images/sprites/mc/mc_neutral.png", im.matrix.colorize("#000", "#8000FF")) label start: scene cafe night show mc_test at center window hide $ renpy.pause() show mc_test: ease 1.0 xalign 0.45 easein 0.5 xalign 0.0 easein 0.25 xalign -1.0 show mc_red behind mc_test: align (0.5, 1.0) ease 1.0 xalign 0.5375 easein 0.5 xalign 0.1875 easein 0.25 xalign -1.0 show mc_lightgreen behind mc_red: align (0.5, 1.0) ease 1.0 xalign 0.625 easein 0.5 xalign 0.375 easein 0.25 xalign -1.0 show mc_teal behind mc_lightgreen: align (0.5, 1.0) ease 1.0 xalign 0.7125 easein 0.5 xalign 0.5625 easein 0.25 xalign -1.0 show mc_purple behind mc_teal: align (0.5, 1.0) ease 1.0 xalign 0.8 easein 0.5 xalign 0.75 easein 0.25 xalign -1.0 $ renpy.pause()

[twocakesdev]

Welcome to the Owl Hours cafe!

It’s located right in the middle of town, not too far from campus where your mentor has full access to the labs. (Just one of many the perks of being a leader in the bio-alchemical field.)

Why a cafe? Well, you don’t want to take full credit for the plan… but you were the one who introduced the idea of “Owl Cafes” to your mentor.

Plus, there’s a lot of misconceptions about your field from the general public.

So naturally, you and your mentor decided this was the perfect way to unleash your proof of concept… Owlcats!

After a lot of training, you’re just about ready to make one of your own! Nothing solid yet, but you’ve got some sketch designs for an absolute unit. Part Himalayan, part Snowy Owl for maximum chunk and floof.

Griffins are nearly extinct in the wild! And now thanks to a blend of science and magic, you can pet them while you have coffee! You’re welcome. Everyone who called you and your mentor “mad scientists” is cordially invited to throw their opinions into the litterbox.

Anyway. Here’s some fun facts about the main character– this is you!

Age: 25 Likes: Owls, good coffee, chemistry, sappy anime, thrash metal, and pansies (the flowers). Dislikes: Waking up early, sour candy, following recipes, bullshit academia, being reminded that her older sisters are all cooler than her. Fashion Sense: “Warped Tour is still cool, right? God I need to stop buying enamel pins.” Texting Style: Has an arsenal of cute griffin pictures and owlmojis to unleash.

[xumbra]

Commission of Ruby Rose and Weiss Schnee (RWBY, Summer Rose Court) in the pose from Fate/stay night where Emiya first summons Saber.

Drawn by StickyPotato

[twocakesdev]

Hello, friends! It’s Monday, the start of a brand new week!

As promised, we have some sneep peeps sneak peeks at the love interests from our first title, “Owl Hours”, an urban fantasy dating sim!

We really hope you come to love them as much as we do!

We’ll tell you more about these two ladies as time rolls on, but for now all you need to know is they’re drawn by the inimitable @xuunies. 

Also, since we’re looking to the future and already drafting up plans for game number two, we’d like a bit of input from you!

Would you mind taking this survey and telling us what genre of story you’d like us to tackle next, once we are finished with Owl Hours?

We’re gonna get back to work now and mostly stay quiet–  unless you have some burning questions to ask– but our twitter is shaping up to be pretty chatty/memey. 

And we might have something cool to share on Halloween….

See you soon!

[xumbra]

About SRC Ruby’s sprite vibrations

You know how Ruby's sprite vibrates? There's a dedicated function for that.

init python: def vibrate_function(obj, st, _): rampup = 5.0 max_offset = 15.0 if st < rampup: max_offset = st * max_offset / rampup obj.xoffset = max_offset * math.sin(20 * math.pi * st) return 0 init: transform vibrate(start_xalign): xalign start_xalign function vibrate_function label start: scene castle_ruby_room show ruby crownless standard at center with dissolve ruby "I'd like to see them" show ruby crownless standard at vibrate(0.5) extend " practicing."

Sometimes I'll manually animate the vibration before remembering that I wrote this a long time ago.

[theashesspeak]

Summer Rose Court is out!! I don’t remember if I ever outright said so but I joined the team working on this a while back and contributed some background, cg and sprite art. It was a great experience working with this lovely team, and I’m proud to have been a small part of this project. I can’t wait to see what everyone thinks of it!

[xekstrin]

We added this section to our main itch page, AKA, the thing every player will see regardless of whether or not they arrived at the game by Tumblr.

Hope this makes things more clear and resolves this unfortunate misunderstanding. The last thing I ever want to do is pretend that Dori wasn’t a major contributor to the project. 

And I am really truly deeply sorry if that was ever the message that came across.

[summer-rose-studios]

SUMMER ROSE COURT AVAILABLE TO PLAY NOW

Summer Rose Court is a fanmade visual novel inspired by the RWBY franchise.

In this game, you play as long-lost princess Ruby Rose. After years of hiding her identity, she is forced to reclaim her birthright in order to protect her kingdom from the encroaching Grimm threat.

Along the way she must recruit new allies, including Knight Commander Ser Weiss Schnee, mysterious faunus rebel Blake Belladonna, dragon tamer Yang Xiao Long, inexperienced soldier Jaune Arc, Captain Pyrrha Nikos, acolyte Lie Ren, and fearless sailor Nora Valkyrie.

ABOUT THE GAME

Summer Rose Court is a visual novel with a single storyline, several important decisions to make, and five major endings. The final word count is 220,000 words long, so there’s some secrets you may have to replay the game to discover.

There are also dating sim elements to the game. We’re excited to announce that there are SEVEN optional romance paths for Ruby Rose. That means all of team RWBY and team JNPR have romance paths.

The game is playable on Linux, PC, and Mac.

It can be downloaded here on our Itch.io page: https://summer-rose-studios.itch.io/src

We want to extend our deepest thanks and gratitude to everyone who supported us on this journey, and our respect to Rooster Teeth for the hard work they put into RWBY.

Keep moving forward, everyone.

[summer-rose-studios]

Thank You

Thank you all so, so much, for your patience, your enthusiasm, your questions, your support, and your interest in this project. 

The next post on this blog will officially announce that the full and complete game is ready to play.

Summer Rose Court will be releasing next week, after RTX 2018. We will make a blog post with a link to our itch.io page, and from there you will be able to download the game.

See you soon…..

[xumbra]

Summer Rose Court Update 63

All the code is in! Right now testers are reporting bugs, and I’m squashing them as they come up. The good news is that most of the bugs are fixed.

I’m not willing to release the game until I fix one particular bug. If I can’t find a fix for it, then I’ll have to decide whether to leave the bug in or to remove it. And to be honest, I really, really want this in the game.

I’m not going to include a changelog this time because there’s so many commits, and right now I’d rather focus on getting Summer Rose Court to you all rather than report on every little thing.

[xumbra]

Summer Rose Court Update 62

Getting super close, and I really mean it.

Changelog:

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A4 Ball: add sprites to Weiss and Yang dance

A4 Ball: split long lines

A4 Ball: add sprites for Ruby Yang dance

REDACTED

A4 Ball: hide Yang at the end of her dance

A4 Ball: add sprites to Weiss and Blake dance

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A4 Ball: add fade transition between all dances

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A4 Ball: add sprites to Weiss, Blake, and Yang dance

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A4 Ball: add sprites to interlude

A4 Ball: add BGM

A4 Ball: don't end ball with black screen

A4 Confession: add skeleton

A4 Confession: add BGs

A4 Confession: add sprites for Weiss section

A4 Confession: add sprites for Blake section

A4 Confession: add sprites for Yang section

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A4 Confession: BGM + jump to end for non-enabler route

Beowulf -> Beowolf

Remove Extras menu

A4 End: add skeleton

A4 End: add skeleton for Yang BSOD

A4 End: add skeleton for Jaune BSOD

A4 End: add skeleton for Renora BSOD

A4 End: add skeleton for Pyrrha BSOD

REDACTED

A4 End: remove note about transparent sprite, since we're not gonna do that

[xumbra]

Searching 696 files for "bitch" (regex) 0 matches

Searching 696 files for "bastard" (regex) C:\Users\bvtsa\summer-rose-court-vn\game\act2part2_end_wave_1.rpy:  666              "Ser Schnee closes her eyes in a surprising loss of patience and lets out a single, steady stream of breath."  667    668:             weiss surprised "Oh, great. Are you a bastard?"  669    670              ruby crownless surprised "Wh-what? No!" 1 match in 1 file

[xumbra]

Summer Rose Court Update 61

This was supposed to be posted yesterday, but something came up and I had to deal with that first. Apologies for the wait.

Changelog:

Remove test label that somehow snuck in

A4: add skeleton

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A4: add BGs and SFXes

A4: refactor BGM initialization

Add main menu silhouette reveal logic

A4: tweak sentence

A4: "escort  her queen" -> "escort her queen"

A4: add Ruby sprites for Weiss and Blake sections

A4: use the correct BGs for Yang's and Pyrrha's scenes whoops

A4: add Ruby sprites to Yang's section

A4: add Ruby sprites to Jaune's section

Add Ruby crownless irritated looking_left sprite

A4: add Ruby sprites to Renora section

A4: add Ruby sprites to Pyrrha's section

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A4: add Weiss sprites

A4: add Blake sprites for her section

A4: add Yang sprites to her section

A4: add Jaune sprites to his section

A4: add sprites to Renora section

A4: add Pyrrha sprites to her section

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A4: stop music at end of intro to Act 4

A4: add Act 4 jingle

A4 Ball: add skeleton

A4 Ball: add BGs

A4 Ball: add sprites to pre-dance scene

A4 Ball: add sprites for Ruby and Weiss dance

A4 Ball: add sprites to Blake and Yang dance

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A4 Ball: transfer a missing section into Weiss and Yang dance

A4 Ball: add sprites to Ruby and Blake dance

[xumbra]

Summer Rose Court Update 60

As a reminder, my SRC updates happen every 3 weeks.

Changelog:

last rose heir -> last Rose heir, plus version bump

Weiss -> Ser Schnee for parts where they aren't on first name basis yet

huge large -> large

they -> she, because we know her gender

A2P2 Weiss: prevent Ruby from going transparent

so expose -> to expose

A3 Weiss: tweak sentence

A3 Blake: confrontation with Roman happens at night

A3 Pyrrha: make non-romance route end less abruptly

A3 Renora: use consistent formatting for Ruby thoughts

A3 Weiss: gag Weiss

A3 Pyrrha: have Ruby blush only when kissing Pyrrha

eyelids -> eyelashes

Lengthen transition between Act 2 and Act 3

[xumbra]

Hi! May I know what's the progress of SRC? :O is it still continuing? Thanks ^_^

Here are the things that are remaining before SRC is released:

Finish writing the script for The End

Write the code for Intro to Act 4

Write the code for The Ball

Write the code for the Confessions/Rejections

Write the code for The End

Test the game to make sure everything is okay

Pick a release date

Package the game and upload it somewhere

Write a fancy post saying that the game is released

Maybe write a postmortem (what went well during development, what didn’t)

In general, you can find out the current progress of SRC by looking at the official blog, which gives you the writing progress. For specific details on the code changes, you can look at my blog.

[xumbra]

Summer Rose Court 59

I think I skipped an update on accident, whoops.

Changelog:

A2P2 Renora: give Ruby something to shout at

A2P2 Renora: have Nora apologize only if you took offense

A2P2 Jaune: make Jaune smile when he's happy

A2P2 Pyrrha: tweak description

A2P2 EOW2: change BG to ramparts night when Ruby walks outside

REDACTED

Make Velvet's name easier to read

A2P2 Renora: fix bad grammar

slam his blade -> slice his blade

eastern desert -> western desert

A3 Jaune: add Grimm attack SFX when Grimm attack

A3 Jaune: tweak a couple of sentences

REDACTED

A3 Renora: reword a couple of sentences

A3 Renora: adjust SFX when removing Magnhild

like he hasn't -> like he hadn't

I could feel -> I can feel

I haven't? -> I don't?

A2P2 EOW2: tweak a sentence

for a while -> in a while

A3 Weiss: make it easier to keep Weiss in the party

Bump version to 0.3.2

judgement -> judgment

Bump version to 0.3.3

[xumbra]

Summer Rose Court Update 58

Coding for Act 3 is done! Now to wait until the writing for Act 4 is finished.

Changelog:

A3 Renora: add scene 3

A3 Renora: add scene 4a

A3 Renora: add scene 4b

Rename act1_bad_end to bad_end

A3 EOW2: add pre-EOW2 bad end

act1_bad_end -> bad_end, round 2 because I'm silly

This is no times -> This is no time

A3 EOW2: add skeleton

A3 EOW2: add sprites

A2 EOW2: limit dance partner availability according to romance points

Bump version to 0.3.0

Fix out of memory error when speeding through the game

Add Krissy's feedback