2headedb0y - I Hate You, Don't Leave Me

So excited to say that I took the leap yesterday and paid the $100 fee to publish a Steam page for 2-Headed Boy! Started the application process but I am waiting for them to verify my identity and tax info before I can even start making the page.

No release date set for this yet since I'm only a month into this project, but the entire internet and Steam itself seems to think it's never too early to get your page up.

I hope it's worth it and people like the game ;w; while I'm doing this for the love of creation and not money, I wouldn't hate it if anyone wanted to pitch in on the Steam fee either (I've actually sunk a few hundred into this already between software programs, plug-ins, assets, art supplies, a basic light box etc.)

Anyway if anyone feels so inclined to contribute please follow the link below 🩶

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I started adding shops and items beyond just the food court to the Midnight City Mall, plus a few aimlessly wandering NPCs.

There's the book/plushie store and clothing store made so far, planning an electronic store and a shoe store next, along with a little noodle shop. Unfortunately all the items besides food are only gifts for your love interests for now (you can't equip clothing and have your character change outfits). Maybe after I release the game I'll patch that in, but for now I'm trying to mainly focus on features that directly impact gameplay/the storylines (gifts being a mechanic for boosting stats with love interests).

I also have a crafting/cooking system, and those gifts give better stat boosts with the love interests than shopping, but I haven't implemented the recipes/ingredients for those yet.

Also I finally actually put the banking system into the ATMs. Player gets a fixed amount of money every Friday deposited to their account, so you will need to budget somewhat in-game. Will add small ways to make extra money too at some point!

Small demonstration of cooking in 2-Headed Boy. Before you can unlock cooking, you have to get the recipe books for the things you want to cook. You can't just buy them; you'll have to find them playing through the story.

Moreover, produce ingredients are seasonal so some ingredients will only be available for certain times of the year. Ingredients don't expire/decay/"go bad" though, so you can stock up on whatever produce is in season for cooking later!

Recipes are greyed out in the menu if you don't have enough of all the ingredients to cook that thing. If you haven't cooked the recipe before, it will have a weird vague name. After cooking it for the first time it will display the real recipe name.

There are 25 recipes, as shown in the top right of the cooking menu. The top number (here showing 25/25, or 100%) is how many recipes you've collected (in my demo here, I have all of them). The bottom number (starting here at 0/25 or 0%) shows how many unique recipes you have cooked.

I've also entered the favorite and least favorite foods for each of the love interests into the social media menu. These are hidden from the player until you learn what they are while playing the game (you can learn these from various methods, it might be during a conversation, by giving a gift, by cooking something for a love interest, or maybe some other way).

I don't want to limit crafting to just cooking though, I would maybe like to add some other crafty category, something else the player could make for the guys that would be cute, but I'm not sure what yet?

And as I'm looking at this video I'm realizing I need to adjust the lighting for late afternoon/early evening as well. Still a bit too red...

Also added an option to the options menu for changing message speed in the game, in case you want the dialogue/on-screen text to display faster (or slower??) or even instantly (rather than it "scrolling" across the message window). A very basic feature, so basic it should be a given, but it didn't occur to me to add it until now. So...yep

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Wowowow I didn't think people would actually donate without some kind of tier rewards or something but I've once again underestimated humanity, that's 3 donors

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Small redraw of Kage sprite in sad mode

Will we be able to adopt the cats at the cat cafe?

Yes! I am thinking at minimum the player can adopt at least one cat. Maybe more, I'm not sure yet, the cafe is still in its infancy but yes you can def have a cat

"Baby, hold my hand

Let me be your man

Let me take you away from the cold,

Baby be my diamonds and gold"

My eyes going blurry now @_@ thanks for the support! All revved up to work hard on this yandere boyfriend project

Reworked the game scene I made yesterday, added a panel, resized some stuff, made Kage's panels semi-transparent since that seemed to make more sense for the context of him being in another location from the player, and recolored his hair. Still didn't fix the options menu though, I don't want to decrease the font size because it will be hard to read I think. So that means going in and messing with the menu panel's height I think...