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Royal Order - The LGBT+ Visual Novel is now LIVE on Kickstarter!
◆ Customizable Protagonist (Appearance, Pronoun, Name) ◆ 3 Romantic Love Interests (2M, 1F) ◆ 2 Stats-raising Systems ◆ Time Management & Quest System (60 In-game Weeks) ◆ 8 Endings ◆ … and many deaths! :D
Play the demo!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1749010/Royal_Order/
https://nifty-visuals.itch.io/royal-order
Please consider sharing and liking this post to spread the word! We’re currently holding a raffle to win beautiful artworks too! :D
The Sval, pirates of the utmost north, are wreaking havoc all over the continent of Igrith.
Vowing to bring an end to their endless plundering, three kingdoms send forth their royal heirs to the High Council, a powerful and influential faction of magicians, to plead for their help during this time of crisis.
The High Council oblige, creating the Royal Order, and the heirs remain; however, political tensions are high as old grudges resurface between the three kingdoms. And, as the pirates continue to have their way, they are determinedly bound to reach their breaking point.
Play as Aarya, the newest member of the High Council, and help manage the Royal Order.
Can you put an end to the Sval’s pillaging while keeping the kingdoms at peace? Or will you bring nothing but war upon them?
I need date ideas. I have some already
-having a picnic
-stargazing
-movie night
Idk if I'm happy with all of these but if anyone has any date ideas that you'd like to see possibly in the Francoeur dating sim PLEASE comment them!
I want to at least have four but like I said I don't know if I'm fully happy with these three ideas I listed yet. But let me know! PLEASE
I kinda wanna make a monster in Paris dating sim. Anyone else intrested? I have a script idea for it already BUT I'd totally be down to hear some others since I can add multiple place where you can go on a date with Francoeur!
The first thing that has ever made me believe I could actually be loveable as an autistic person was a dating sim where it turns out that the guy you’re dating has autism.
I cried.
DOUBLE ARTIST!!!!!!
Getting kidnapped once? You can have it. Getting kidnapped twice?That's on me.
@thepyramidoflove So overwhelmed but happy to be on this amazing team!
Physical Wise: I've always found Freckles and Moles attractive. I think because of the saying that they're "Angel Kisses", but aesthetically they are soooo attractive. Whether it be one under the eye, below the lip, multiple in on one side or asymmetrically placed on both sides. Plus if you make them Blush or tease them a bit they become more pronounced the redder they get. Another, mostly as a wishlist, a LI that has some essence of Melanin (Just because I want more darker skinned characters that are interesting)
Personality Wise: Imma be honest.....when I play Otome/Visual novels...ALOT of my type are the Loner Brooding types 😅. However I wouldn't say they are my favorite, I'd say I love more of a reverse wolf in sheep's clothing. A LI that seems cold or intimidating (and they could be), but are the BIGGEST dorks you'll ever meet and are total klutz.
Also love a quippy drama queen.
But in in all honestly if they are written well and appealing character wise, I'm locked in.
Okay I have a big question for yall.
What is a trait (can be personality or physical, anything really, even something super obscure) that you want in a visual novel LI (love interest /capture target)?
I'm curious 🤔
(Please reblog if you are able so I can get a large sample size 💕)
2-Headed Boy also has a Reddit page, if anyone is also on there and want to show it a little love with an occasional upvote or anything ^^;
To the anon who asked if the cats at the cafe are adoptable, here's a small demo of how that will work. You can adopt only once/one cat per save file.
But what you can do an infinite amount of times is change your cat's accessory, so if you gave it a collar and later want to have it wear a bow or flower, or change the color of the bow/flower/collar, you can do that any time from your apartment wardrobe.
Before you can adopt a cat you have to get it to a friendly status with you at the cafe, by playing with it (use the laser pointer, I'll probably add a feather toy or something too).
Cat cafe is a key element of boyfriend option Yurei's route; playing with the cats and adopting one will get you points with him. More on that later!
I'm also working on a little special something for people who donate to the game, that will be related to cat cafe.
Unrelated note here, I don't know how many people have been paying attention to the in-game clock in the videos, but some may have noticed that before it was moving like...crazy fast, a second for a minute. I realize that would make crazy pacing in the game and probably be stressful. Right now I have it set to pass in real time, so a minute in the game takes a minute in real life.
BUT you can fast forward time with various in game activities so you're not time-gated (you can skip 8 hours by sleeping, or 2 hours with a nap, as a couple of examples).
Edit: Also, time passage is not tied to your computer's clock or anything like that. Time doesn't pass in the game unless you are actually running the game (it's not like Animal Crossing for example, where time passes in the game whether you are playing or not).
So I was feeling like a couple of those donations were like...freakishly generous and I wanted to give something back to the donors. I've sent them both a way to redeem items on my shop I just opened a few minutes ago on Ko-Fi, and I have a little tier system now for donations (see the pinned post, it's been updated).
So if anyone is feeling outrageously generous, feel free to check the store page. Tier 2 of my 4 tiers is still a WIP/not available in the store yet as it's a cosmetic in-game item, and it's related to what I'm currently working on in the game, so I'll probably be able to code it in tonight and get the item listed on my shop tomorrow.
Tier 1 is still just the normal donate option/not a shop item, to send $5 and have your name in the credits.
Thanks again for checking out my free to play game, which you can now wish list on Steam!
Thanks to all of your encouragement and support, Steam store page is now up for 2-Headed Boy!
Release date is still TBA though!!
Again this project only started in January so please look forward to it ;w;
Wishlist a 2-headed boy of your own today!
Again, the game will be free-to-play. All it costs is your precious, precious time. And your love. And attention.
White Day is next month!
If you gave your crush a Valentine on Valentine's Day, he'll give you something in return on White Day. The exact item will depend on the crush and other in-game choices you made prior to this moment.
But whatever it is, it'll be white 🤍
Tldr I'm 98% sure I'll be able to get stuff like Steam achievements working in my game as well as stuff like checking for DLC ownership if the game ever gets popular enough to warrant a DLC.
Also this is Yurei's apartment so far, he needs more furniture! And I gotta adjust the alignment of a mirror so he can have a bathroom mirror without it clipping into the sink or ceiling.
Long boring version: I got basically nothing done on 2-Headed Boy yesterday, found out Steam's API integration thing only supports C++ and if you want Steam features on your Steam game that's programmed in a different language, you basically gotta use a 3rd party service, the website for the one they list as commonly used for my engine was down of course.
But thankfully the RM community came in clutch once again, and someone wrote up a thorough tutorial on a community forum, including a zip file with all the files I needed to update my engine and game etc. for Steam integration. So that's what I did yesterday. And worked my job too, dumb I know but I got bills to pay 🫠
Only the review for the Steam page, not the game, I'm not that fast D: But hopefully they approve my page and I don't have to make 10,000 revisions or anything
First floor of the carnival's haunted house, just testing the animation here. Cute little mouse eyes in the wall holes, painting eyes on upper floor do that cheesy follow you around thing, lightning windows, haunted couch, and the ceiling is leaking blood a little bit.
Will work on this more later but I'm probably gonna focus more on cat cafe for now, I mainly needed to start this for a screenshot for the Steam page :)
I know I said haunted house was next, but I decided to start the cat cafe first. Working on the haunted house today though. (Also cat cafe isn't done, obviously there has to be more cats etc.)
Since Steam wants a minimum of 5 screenshots, I'm trying to get a little more map variety for that so it doesn't look like the whole game takes place on a handful of maps. After I get something presentable for the haunted house I think that will give me enough to submit my upcoming game page to them for review!
Trailer for 2-Headed Boy, free to play yandere boyfriend RPG for PC, no release date but Steam page coming soon™ up now for wishlists!
Went back and did a little work on the character creator for 2-Headed Boy, just on the hue shifters to improve color selection.
Before "tan" skin looked too much like an orange spray tan. So I adjusted that to make it more natural looking and named it "medium." Also added an olive tone.
I added grey and brown to the eye color options and fixed the green so it looks less neon (there's still a bright green option though). Made yellow actually look yellow instead of light orange.
I have more work to do on this of course, the biggest thing being clothing and accessory options as I'm not crazy about the placeholder assets I have for those :/
Working on weather effects for 2-Headed Boy, added some fog to the city map (or maybe it's just pollution, let's be real)
New shop added for the Midnight City Mall in 2-Headed Boy, upcoming free to play yandere boyfriend RPG.
Buy candy, eat trash, be free
Thank you @abrokecupoftea you the real mvp :3 this is going straight back into the game 🩶
do you wanna pick the next map I make, between the interior of the haunted house at the carnival or the interior for the cat cafe? Donor's choice (I also already spent some of the $ on some more pixels for designing another mall shop, should have footage of that posted tonight)
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 🩶
More work on the Valentine's Day event for 2-Headed Boy.
Updated logo for 2-Headed Boy, my under development F2P yandere boyfriend RPG.
Walking sprite samples for love interest Yugen
A small carnival area for Midnight City. I still need to blend out the gradient on the ambient light for the night time Ferris wheel. And make the interior map for the haunted house.
Also considering putting a clock on the Ferris wheel, but I'm not sure if that would cause lag or not...still thinking about that one.
Finally put the final love interest into the game. The blonde is Yugen, birthdate May 21. He's the slowest burn of all routes, and also the one your yandere hates the most, because he's the most difficult route to sabotage. Once Yugen is invested in the player, he tends to not let go... This one's gonna be a tug of war for your yandere.
Next is to make a sprite set for him!
Expanded the arcade area a little, and if you read the text box there you'll see which new map I'll be working on next! After adding the final love interest, anyway.
Also added 3 new shops to the mall, the electronics store, noodle shop and a shoe boutique, for more gift options for your love interest.
Also added the grocery store. There's not much to buy there yet, but I plan on adding in the ingredients for the cooking system to that shop, so you can make little treats for the love interests. ...Don't let your yandere find out you're doing that though.
Other than that just kind of worked on optimizing map transfers to make them less janky. Oh, and not shown here but I started working on the holiday event things too!
Samples for 1st LI's sprite animation, Yurei! Now I can start working on a design for the final love interest option...
My eyes going blurry now @_@ thanks for the support! All revved up to work hard on this yandere boyfriend project
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!