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Have another pic. AU making go "BRRRR"
From left to right its Namie, Nec, MC, Harper, Arabella and Mikage. Of course Izaya is in the middle.
I went to see Six the musical recently, and it gave me the idea to make an AU for Drrr!! I had to include characters from Ikebukuro Records to have all six queens but at least they all fit. If I went with canon characters the options were either not fitting, boring, or underage. Anyway. I like it. Is it normal to want to write fanfics for your own stuff?
(I encourage people to reblog my work because I'm going through a glitch where tumblr is making me get blocked by people I don't even know. It's rather annoying and hindering so it would be really helpful)
Updates and Responses to Feedback:
Hi all. Due to talking to some of you we thought it would be best to inform you of some changes we've made to the game since the demo was released. Most of these we had done so earlier, however after recieving feedback, we thought that this might be important
First change:
MC's new character design.
Many of you stated that in the demo, MC looked too short and young, and that it made a lot of you uncomfortable. We heard this and made the appropriate changes and the results are what you see in the above sketch. We made her chest more prominent and she should be taller--around the same height as Arabella and Anri. When we get a digital artist for the sprites, we'll make sure that she translates better to digital form. Previously, we had in story reason for her youthful appearance, but in the end both madhousefruitcake and I agreed it was too extreme, and so did some updates accordingly.
Related to this, we heard feedback stating that some of you have felt discomfort playing this game due to the MC's feminine appearance and pronouns, and that it has caused you dysphoria. We are dreadfully sorry about this, however due to technical reasons, we can't provide the players with a gender selection. The game is incredibly long, with over 30 character sprites. That's not taking into account the expressions each of those characters would have within the game. So we hope that you can understand the need to restrict ourselves to one gender. The reason we chose female and not gender neutral is both due to plot and game genre. Traditionally, otome games are made for girls, so we thought it would be wise to stick to the demographic we were aiming for. If this effects you and you still want to play the game, we consider viewing the MC as separate from you (I know I know, that kind of defeats the purpose doesn't it). If not, we completely understand not wanting to, and thank you for playing anyway.
The other change:
Since the demo was released last year, we have gone back and edited a lot of the scenes and dialogue. The specific example we're talking about today are the "I'm straight lines". When we looked back, myself and madhousefruitcake agreed and thought that multiple characters commenting on how straight they were was really stupid, clunky and unnatural, so we have since changed it. However, as of recently we have been made aware of just how glaring the lines were to some of you and we felt the need to update everyone on these changes. The mistake was made thanks to a slip in the editing and more than one script writer. We will try to avoid something like this happening again. With the exceptions of a few, most of the characters sexualities would be more ambiguous or unmentioned for now on. For the most part, our aim is to get the most accurate depiction of the series we can get through lots of reading and research, in order for the player to feel like they're actually taking part in the world of durarara. Any mentions of sexuality for now on would be either for plot reasons, or because the dialogue naturally fell a certain way.
We hope that these issues didn't turn any of you off Ikebukuro Records, but if they have, hopefully this new information will spark your interest in it again. Please let us know of more feedback you have, and feel free to ask questions.
Please consider donating to our ko-fi so that we may someday afford all the required digital artists. I'll leave the link at the bottom of this post. We will give you more art and script updates as development and donations continue. Thank you for your time.
-Ms.
Please spread the word everyone. We really didn’t want to have to ask for money but we have no choice. Take note that this is also for future projects too, which will be original works. The fangame is meant to be none profit. If you think you know any artists who may be interested, let us know.
Logged back in due to an important announcement: Our Ko-fi page is set up to pay artists for sprites, CGs, and backgrounds (all three are separate to avoid stress for completing the art) for Ikebukuro Records: A Durarara!! Dating Sim!
You can donate here:
https://ko-fi.com/madhousefruitcake
(We want to add extra content for monthly donors, such as screenshots and sprites that were not seen in the demo)
Artists who join us will:
Receive art from the demo as reference
Given sketches for future scenes as reference
Will receive payment (we won’t ask you to draw until we have enough money to pay you)
Be beta testers
Could work with us on future projects we have planned (OG)
Thank you for reading. Please spread the word so we can find artists as soon as possible. If an artist is interested, please DM us!
So confession time. Ever since I started working on the game with madhousefruitcake my once cold, non shipper heart has done a complete one eighty, and now I am rabid for ships. Like "I want nothing but happiness for these characters". It got so bad I've even started an entire neighborhood in the sims where everyone settles down and starts their own family. So yeah, that's the backstory for this drawing.
(Yes I used crayola to colour this in, I'm a college student with multiple things to do give me a break)
Also I imagine Anri and Mikado's kid having purple eyes. Cause that's cool.
Happy Birthday to these two. I wouldn't suggest accepting a drink from them.
Fun fact, they get a bit of a make over in the game to show that some time has past. But I won't spoil it for you. Needless to say I had fun doodling outfits for them in my free time.
It's new year in my country. Don't say anything happy. Don't make a resolution. This is not your year. Stay quiet and silent and we should be ok. Don't. Jinx. It. No jokes allowed. Just be thankful for all that is good. Like we are thankful for all those people downloading Ikebukuro Records.
Thank you everybody.
IT'S BACK MOTHAFUCKAS!!!
Hey, do you know what happened to Madhousefruitcake?
So in short, tumblr or the internet is doing something weird right now, I don't know what happened
Update, tumblr deleted the madhouse fruitcake account. We don't know why. Hopefully things will be clarified and fixed soon.
Hey, do you know what happened to Madhousefruitcake?
So in short, tumblr or the internet is doing something weird right now, I don't know what happened
Hey, do you know what happened to Madhousefruitcake?
So in short, tumblr or the internet is doing something weird right now, I don't know what happened
I'm not going to be on tumblr for a while. I've gotten really anxious and stressed lately. Please spread the word of Ikebukuro Records while I'm gone.
Happy Birthday to Anri, the Spooky Baby!
I would draw some art but I’ve been a bit shaken by something, and it’s rather late.
But imagine Anri celebrating her birthday with MC and Arabella (cause she needs some female friends her age, and groping without consent isn't a very friendly thing to do, ERIKA). Imagine Mikado and Masaomi agreeing to hang together and leave them be so that they could have girls night. Imagine them mixing Halloween and birthday traditions together, like dressing up in cutesy outfits, or playing fortune telling games. Imagine them eating ALL the sweets and watching late night movies. Just imagine them being cute, wholesome group of friends.
Phew, I feel better now.
Looks like that will be the end of my attempt to celebrate Halloween drrr!! style.
Please remember to check out the dating sim demo we made on the madhousefruitcake blog, and again feel free to spread the word. You can do that by reblogging the link, doing fanart, memes, or sending asks.
Happy Halloween
MockNerd~
Remember the Hanahaki Disease concept that was scrapped? Here's the other one.
Shizuo Heiwajima is so fucking hard to draw. I always have to go extra with him. Which is something I really don't need because I already am a perfectionist and not only that but his hair is just so ...>stressed inhale<
The cast playing Among Us
Shizuo: IT WAS IZAYA!
Izaya: what?
Masaomi; yeah he's acting pretty Sus
Izaya: I'm not even playing the game
Celty: Then how come we can hear you?
Izaya: I'm spying on you, duh
Riku: Yeah that's pretty Sus
Izaya: eh?
Anri: I'll vote Orihara-san
Izaya: hold on
Mikado: Same here
MC: Guys let's just vote skip.
Shinra: nah I'm voting Izaya
Izaya: I just said--
Namie: Everybody vote Izaya
Izaya: Namie you aren't playing eit-- >gets pushed out the window<
>Izaya was ejected<
Ah shit, it's late, and I can't find any old drawings. Hmmm...how about...
Imagine Shizuo dressed up as Kazuma Kiryu from Yakuza 0.
That will be all. Now I go sleep
I had time?! To draw?! Shock! Horror! Quick! Someone check that there aren't any tears in reality!
>ahem<
So fun fact, in the game we originally considered two of the characters getting hanahaki disease. For those of you who don't know it's a fictional disease caused by unrequited love that causes the victim to cough up flowers and blood. If it's not treated or if the love isn't requited, the victim will die. Obviously we scrapped the idea because that was just too depressing. Not to mention, it put a lot of guilt and pressure on the player to choose specific characters, which didn't seem fair at all. It's up to the players to choose who they romance, not us. However, the idea still inspires me to draw stuff like this. So enjoy.
Here is a sketch of Arabella that I drew around last year. (Yes I know she looks a little derpy, this was basically on the back of some reading I had to do)
So last week I had a post where I briefly mentioned I might do Ikebukuro Records art or something for the week of Halloween...the chances of that have slimmed. Normally my college has something called a reading week, where everyone gets little to no additional work to catch up on reading assignments and such as well as no classes. However, this year that doesn't seem to be the case, because the college year started late in order for new students to prepare for entry, due to postponed entry exams. So now to catch up, we don't have Halloween off, and we're getting off Christmas late. I have a lot of things to complain about but it's probably best I don't do that, but in conclusion I probably can't do anything special for the holiday. I will try to scrounge up some old drawings I might have lying around but don't expect anything of high quality. People are free to draw their own art or write or ask anything if they wish, but I'll be busy drowning in literature.
Sooooo... fuck Covid19
Bye!
So I've decided that if I'm going to be active at all, it will be on Fridays. Maaayyyybbbeee Saturdays as well. Sundays are even more of a stretch, but those are the most likely if at all. So if you have asks or anything to send, expect a response by then. Holidays will be the exception. As always, please check out Ikebukuro Records or promote it. I might do some art for it on Halloween.
Thank you for listening
~MockNerd
Ok so that didn't work. I would draw some stuff anyway but it is midnight again, very late, and along with other things. Posting or drawing something would not be wise right now and I have a schedule to go back to. Ikebukuro Records birthday celebration, canceled. Still feel free to post any fanart, reviews, jokes or just spread the word. It's just that my free time is limited. Education is holding me hostage.
COMMENCE CELEBRATION OF BIRTH
Hey guys! It just struck midnight! And for me that means my teen years are officially behind me (please help I'm not ready to adult). So to celebrate, it would be really cool if people could spread the word about Ikebukuro Records, the Drrr!! Dating Simulator Demo. Feel free to send asks, draw fanart, do reviews, post jokes, and I might post some art if I feel like it ✌😋 (no stories though. College work says no)
COMMENCE CELEBRATION OF BIRTH
Hey guys! It just struck midnight! And for me that means my teen years are officially behind me (please help I'm not ready to adult). So to celebrate, it would be really cool if people could spread the word about Ikebukuro Records, the Drrr!! Dating Simulator Demo. Feel free to send asks, draw fanart, do reviews, post jokes, and I might post some art if I feel like it ✌😋 (no stories though. College work says no)
omg my friend and i started playing tonight and we are THOROUGHLY ENJOYING IT thank you so much for all your hard work and for letting me know about it!!!! :D
Thank you so much for checking it out. Stay tuned for when we’ll continue it. There is also a survey for giving us further feedback if you would please fill it out, it would be very helpful.
Attention to all accessing this via my blog, the password is Madhouse without the capital H. I reblogged this from madhousefruitcakes blog (the main blog for this game) and at the time there was a mistake in the typing. I am unable to change this on my reblog, so I am informing you all now. Sorry if this caused some inconveniences.
THE DEMO OF THE DATING SIM IS RELEASED! Reblog to spread the news!
DURARARA!! BELONGS TO RYOHGO NARITA! This is a non-profit fangame.
ATTENTION: Even though your laptop will tell you not to download it, it’s safe. It’s only because we’re not an official publisher. My artists and friends tested it. Just hit “Run anyway”.
A RETURN TO IKEBUKURO…
It was another day like any other until a young woman learned that her boss had planned a job transfer for her. Her destination? A city in Tokyo, Japan by the name of Ikebukuro. The city had been blessed with five years of normalcy, which made more tourists visit. Her best friend, Arabella Faraldo, was excited to visit such a grand city so she insisted on joining the young journalist on her journey. Unbeknownst to them, two famous figures known by its occupants through causing destruction have returned to the city. With a new gang on the rise, an unhinged informant with a “love” for humanity, supernatural entities and flying vending machines, the young woman’s new job is the least of her worries as a new Ikebukurian!
[This game is rated 15+ for: Suggestive themes (full game), partial nudity (full game), drugs (full game), vulgar language and violent imagery (full game)]
FEATURES:
Feel free to type in your own name for the story, along with your handle for the chat room!
3 bachelors: Shizuo Heiwajima, Masaomi Kida, and Izaya Orihara
Slight changes in appearances and personalities due to the story taking place seven years after the Final Curtain arc
Multiple endings
Many plot holes filled in the full game through thorough research and realistic elements in explanations, but only a few will be revealed in the demo
New (fan-made) characters added to the story
Drawn backgrounds of real spots in Ikebukuro
Side characters making occasional appearances or are mentioned
Our goal is to make this game feel like a season that left almost every question in the series once unanswered now answered and bringing satisfaction to current or previous viewers/readers of the series. If you like what you see so far after playing the demo, let us know!
Oh, and…be careful who you romance.
LINK (available for Mac and Windows): https://madhouse-fruitcake.itch.io/ikebukuro-records-a-durarara-dating-sim
Password: MadHouse
Migrating to Tumblr and posting a concept art for my Horror Folk Visual Novel - Soulless.
In this game you play as a young human in old-time Ukraine that was taken by supernatural forces and now has to deal with it.
Btw, I was a concept artist for one character in “Apples to Ashes” visual novel and here’s like almost a full process
@applestoashes