Pandemonium Development

Coding Stuff

I am done the map layouts for Starfield Swamp (glue comes later) and am working on St. Fora’s. Pyxxis is working on the River Wilds area. After those are done, the remaining area is the Arbonne Plains, and the mapwork for chapter 1 is done. I hope to be done St. Fora’s this week and most of the way through Arbonne.

Art Stuff

Chicken has gotten me prototype emotes for Share;lock, who was the last remaining mandatory character bit. Hund is almost done all the area overlays. Urimas is getting me new tiles for St. Fora’s. Koops is getting me the new ghost buddy enemies.

DrDissonance is BACK and got us the new Starfield Swamp music – patrons get to hear it today!

Advertising?

This week we begin our advertising attempt. String Tyrant is a spooky game, and October is a spooky month. We’re going to see if we can get some LPers to play it for spook reasons. I’ll post to any youtube vids that do so!

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Coding Stuff

The mechanical upgrades needed for the Big Balance Patch are done. I am currently working through my bug backlog before making the new maps and scenarios.
Your long wait has paid off. A prototype may head out to patrons “Soon”. Of course, it might also “not”.

Artistry

Chicken finished the Polaris emotes and moved on to Miho’s emotes. She has 3-4 more images to do and chapter 1 is complete. She also has some paragon images to do but she assures me those are quick.

Koops has done the alraune buddy concept and is working on the rest. Urimas is getting me swamp tiles, Mario is writing a story about Alraunes, and Hund is almost finished the chapter 5 region overlays.

Pyxxis tries to get maps done between schoolwork. He actually did some maps, it’s very impressive, he’s so adorable.

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Coding Stuff

An unexpectedly brutal workweek involving covering for someone else meant I’m not more behind than ever! I have to finish up some Pairanormal stuff and fix a few more bugs before I start making the new maps. BBP is getting closer to completion day by day.

I am so tired.

Artistic Works

Koops and Chicken are getting me new enemy art and character emotes. Urimas is getting me new enemy frames and ability icons. Hund is almost done the area overlays for chapter 5. Trucking along.

Curious Cat

Links

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Coding Stuff

Slow week for coding, as I spent half of it out of town. Bug fixes and scenario improvements resume as of today. Still cleaning up a bug backlog from those darn testers.

Artistry

Chicken and Koops have been putting together the new concepts for chapter 1. We’ve got a month at least of new patron bonus stuff, and this first week it’ll be the new werecat enemy!

Urimas made a sheet of all the gems that will be in the game (the gems that can be combined, anyway) and Hund is 4-5 more area notifiers away from being done.

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Coding Stuff

I am – still – working on bugfixes, because hoo boy there were a lot of bugs. Every time I fix some, more pop up. But I’m pretty close.

Pyxxis and I spent a couple hours hashing out the enemy list and figuring out enemy stats. Whenever I’m done with the bugs I can start plugging stats in.

Artistry

Chickenwhite came back from vacation and immediately sent me a) a picture of a tired dog and b) a new enemy. Patrons get to see the new enemy today!

Also, here is one of our new enemy concepts: Jelli!

Koops has been concepting up a storm of various add-on enemies that appear alongside monstergirls but are not playable forms.

Also Urimas made a bunch of icons and stuff but whatever.

Curious Cat

Are Ya Linkin’ Son?

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Coding Stuff

I’ve finished all the Big Balance Patch mechanical upgrades. I’ll post a comprehensive list at some point, but for now: I’m fixing the hordes of bugs that followed. Everything from items disappearing when you save to not allocating enough space for string pointers (thanks Aaaac) to field abilities needing wider hitboxes, I’m fixing it ALL baby.

Artistry

Chicken is on vacation for another week and Koops is doing some commissions. Stinkehund is most of the way through chapter 5’s area overlays, and Urimas is currently making me icons for all the new gems we’re going to have.

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Link Pile

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Bonus Stuff!

Bonus art of Nadia by The Masked Creator! Commissioned by Klaysee.

It’s not complete without the pun, trust me.

Coding Stuff

I am closing in on being done all the mechanical updates for the Big Balance Patch. Here’s what’s left:
Renewable Chests
Glancing Blows
Gem Merging

Wow, a short list? Well don’t forget all the new stuff getting added to chapter 1, plus the inevitable cavalcade of bugs I’ll have to fix.

Artistry

Chicken is on vacation for two weeks as of now, so no more art on that front. However, we do have our finalized studio logo!

Our old studio logo was a unicorn head against a backdrop of stars, but now we have a cute cat. Or is it?

Curiosity

The Link Pile

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Maiden Sealed in Stone, a game Salty translated!

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Buy our merch on Redbubble and Teepublic!

Give us money on Patreon so we can make more monstergirl stuff!

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Everyone Bonus Stuff!

Commissioned by Friend of the Team, Klaysee, drawn by MissDeerFace. It’s Christine laughing way too hard at her own joke!

I’m starting to think I need to make a dedicated fan art section on the site.

Coding Stuff

I completed the translation for Alfine’s Diary this week! You can get it here.
It’s not 100% complete, as it has some leftover literals and there are some weird bugs due to the SRPG engine that make a full translation impossible. It is playable though.

I also have (mostly) completed the save/load system for the Big Balance Patch. I have a few more things to add before saving/loading goes to testers.

Aristry

Chicken has not decided on the music yet, but is working away at the animation. Urimas is getting me icons.

Koops just got me another chapter 2 concept (which you might get to see later if you’re good). Stinkehund was panicking about chapter 5’s overlays as always.

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Chicken needs your music help!

Artist Chickenwhite likes animating things. Without me even asking, she wants to make an animated transformation promo of a bouncing Mei transforming into her chapter 1 monster forms.

And she needs your help!

Chickenwhite says:

You know ’em, you love ’em, they’re on youtube (for now) and we’re making one – it’s animated meme time! Pandemonium-girls edition!

The theme is transformation, and with each new beat, a new one will occur. Now the only thing missing is the other most essential part of an animated meme – the music. And because we work backwards in here in Chicken’s brain, that part has yet to be found.

Which brings us to how YOU – yes, you, Chris (your name probably isn’t Chris, but it was worth it to mess with the Chris’s of the world)- can help us finish this project. Pick a song for this thing! The only requirements are that it be catchy, that it fit the animation, and preferably, that it isn’t already used for another popular animated meme. With that said, send your suggestions, please! I – Chicken – shall be awaiting them anxiously!

It doesn’t need to be long, I’m only going to be using a few seconds of it, so you can absolutely specify a part of the song to be nominated.

Want to suggest a song? I made a google form so you can do just that. Time stamps and links to a youtube/soundcloud help!

And for promotion’s sake, here’s an animation Chicken made because she likes Bendy and the Ink Machine.

Coding Stuff

Low-productivity week last week, as I had a lot of day-job shifts. I should be done my work on Pairanormal today or tomorrow, and then it’s time to make saving and loading work again in Pandemonium.

Artistry

Koops completed a concept that is important but you won’t be seeing for a while. Chicken is working on that promo-art and then it’s extra enemies for chapter 1. Urimas is doing tiles and stuff. Hund got me the updated Florentina emotes.

Curiosity

The Link Pile

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Maiden Sealed in Stone gets TFGS Entry (Other games to follow)

You can find it right here.

I finally got off my ass and made a TFGS entry for it, so if you missed it last time you can get it this time. Petrificator says he’s working on chapter 3, but who knows when that will happen.

I am also going to be translating Alfine’s Diary and Ruins Exploration. Alfine’s Diary has some serious problems with its SRPG engine, though, so it may have to be an incomplete translation.

Coding

Field abilities are in the game, appearing next to the stamina bar. You can quickly change field abilities from a hotmenu and can use them regardless of current form.

They range from the werecat Deadly Jump which allows you to start a battle with the enemies being stunned, to the ghostly Wraithform that makes you invisible to enemies for 5 seconds, to Scout Sight:

Which zooms out the camera so you can see further! There are a few more field abilities in chapter 1 and many more to be had in other chapters, but these will do for now.

I needed field abilities for the puzzles in chapter 2, but since I ripped everything out for the Big Balance Patch, may as well put them in now right?

Next up, I have some Pairanormal work to do, and then I’ll be putting some more touches in to combat, such as getting the doctor bag to work, allowing level ups, and maybe getting the saving system to work again.

Artistry

Florentina’s new job, Mediator, has a very fetching shoulder sash. Otherwise, the artists are doing their thing. I’ll be spacing out the new enemy and character concepts over the next few weeks as we get things set up for release.

Curiosity

The Link Pile

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Buy our dumb gaiden game on itch.io! It’s on Steam too!

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Give us money on Patreon so we can make more monstergirl stuff!

Join our Discord and curse at me in person! Our testers are on the run from the law!

Follow us on Tumblr to see Koops’ awful puns!

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