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Heres the alternate form(s) for Zorua and Zoroark! Oh and we have a region name now! So welcome the Ralian Forms!
Here’s the main rival Aurora and the grass starter Rutree! The shiny ver. is under the cut, hope you guys enjoy :>
Here’s the water type starter Bantee! Shiny version under cut :0 I need to redo the back sprite for them :/
Please check it out. And make sure to play part 1 and 2 as well. Finishing this part got me emotional. I hope everyone enjoys!
Shizuo's Part 3 Download
Shizuo part 3 is finally here!
Per usual, the password is "Pudding". The guide for his part 3 is also in the description of the download page on Itch.io.
We hope you enjoy Shizuo's part 3!
Giving this one an extra reblog for the funzies.
Shizuo’s part 2 has been released!
The team had a lot of fun planning this announcement artwork, as we couldn’t resist throwing in this meme.
If Shizuo didn’t do what he did during a certain scene, you all might have had to take the dominant approach, dear players!
Per usual, the password is “Pudding”. You can download part 2 here!
We hope you enjoy part 2 of Shizuo’s route! Depending on how things go, Shizuo’s part 3 might come out around his birthday as well!
Please check it out. Reblog. Spread the word. It was lots of fun working on it. And make sure to play part 1 if you haven't.
Shizuo’s part 2 has been released!
The team had a lot of fun planning this announcement artwork, as we couldn’t resist throwing in this meme.
If Shizuo didn’t do what he did during a certain scene, you all might have had to take the dominant approach, dear players!
Per usual, the password is “Pudding”. You can download part 2 here!
We hope you enjoy part 2 of Shizuo’s route! Depending on how things go, Shizuo’s part 3 might come out around his birthday as well!
Please check it out if you're a fan of Durarara!! Or Shizuo Heiwajima! This was really fun to work on! Please reblog and spread the word!
Shizuo’s Part One is finished!
Thank you for your patience! Please remember to play the normal route first (the link is available on every route page along with the password). I can’t tell you how excited we were to start Shizuo’s route. It made us even happier how he had minimal problems during testing~
Download Shizuo’s part one here! The password is: Pudding
Per usual, a walkthrough will be available on the page.
We hope you enjoy Shizuo’s part one!
If you haven't seen the other parts or the normal route, please check em out before playing this one. It feels so weird to get this part done. Kinda sad, but i know it's about time we got this done and moved onto Shizuo's route. Thank you for all the support so far and stay tuned for more Ikebukuro Records! And don't forget to reblog and spread the word!
Izaya’s Part 3 is finished!
It’s been a long journey, but Izaya’s route is finished. We look forward to your thoughts on the endings and the conclusion to Izaya’s story in Ikebukuro Records. The password, as always, is Baccano.
Download the game here!
This is to the same tune of Arabella's colour being light pink, but MC's colour is definitely pastel blue in my head. Yes I know there are canon characters with blue as their thing, but pastel blue on MC looks so good! Sure, I permit the occasional divergence kinda like how Arabella can go for simple black and white and still work. Pastel blue just translates to MC for me.
Reblogging AGAIN to let others know. Glitches fixed, yaaaaay
Izaya’s route part two download + bonus comic
Art by Fi. Thanks for all your hard work!
Aren’t childhood memories lovely?
We hope you enjoy both the bonus comic and Izaya’s part 2 here! Per usual, the password is Baccano.
EDIT: Good ending glitch fixed.
Game testing without context:
"Riku, imma be honest, i'm only staring at your titties right now"
Got paper lately. Wanna draw OC's and canon character's in cozy little places.
Whenever I see something pastel pink I think "Arabella would have that".
Creating characters to insert into the world of Durarara!! has been fun. Like so much of it is just done by messing around with doodles, what if's and further additions to the story puzzle, trying to see what fits. Why is one colour in the colour spectrum missing in this gang war? I dunno, lets insert it. What's a common strangers reaction to these people who fuck with everything? Let's find out! Is there baby? Is there enough dilfs? Who cares lets fuck around and find out. And the funny thing is, the more they last the more in debt we go into their characters. And often it's by complete accident or by chance. This character made a joke? Well lookie here now this canon character has a very deep attachment to this person now. I doodled this character in military clothes? Guess there's part of the backstory decided. Don't get me started on the ones that never made it. Many of them are lost to time, couldn't fit into the portrait. Some just straight up don't appear until much later on in these lives and very few are going to look into that window. So many buddy groups, mothers and children have disappeared now. But they make the survivors stronger and dammit if it wasn't a great time toying with them. No I'm not going to specify on any of this.
PLEASE CHECK IT OUT GUYS WE WORKED REALLY HARD.
IZAYA’S PART ONE IS FINISHED!
(Art by our lovely artists)
You can download it here. The game page includes guides for both routes currently available to play and credits. It’s restricted, so the password is MHFC.
Be sure to share to spread the news! We hope you enjoy Izaya’s part one!
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.
This is another case of "please spread the word" because it's really important.
News regarding art in the game
So I talked to my former digital artist yesterday and she told me that she doesn’t want her art in the game. We were originally going to keep the art style of the demo until day 4 of each bachelor route, but to respect her wishes, the art style will completely change in the full game.
It’s a bit inconvenient, but we’ll still send her drawn sprites, CGs, and backgrounds to the new digital artist once we get one for reference. At this point, I highly doubt a new digital artist would draw the amount of artwork in the game for free (we might get one for backgrounds and one for sprites and CGs), so we’re probably going to have to pay the artist(s). We’re still pondering over what to do, but we’re considering setting up a Buy Me a Coffee page, but it’s not set in stone yet. However, please note:
We will not use the donations for anything else but to pay the artist(s) and the game will still be free. Seeing people enjoying the game is all the payment we need.
Now, this wouldn’t start until the scripts are done. There would be no point in hiring artist(s) just to have them wait around. However, we’re still looking for a manga x anime style for the characters. If the sprite and CG artist finds it easier to draw one more than both, that’s okay too.
We’ll also be changing Riku, Arabella, and MC’s outfits, along with Riku and MC’s hairstyle. I can’t give spoilers, but they’ll have a more modern look. Their eye shapes, heights, and colors will remain the same though.
Thank you for reading!
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