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Hey, gang! It's so cool to see that almost two hundred people have stopped in to check out the project! If you're reading this, thank you so much for taking the time to check us out, and of course huge thanks to everyone who sent an encouraging DM.

And oh, since you're already here, mind answering a couple questions to help us tailor the experience better to players?

1) What's your favorite fast food item?

2) Any of the guys stand out to you?

3) How many choices do you like in your visual novel? Frequent with small repercussions, or a few really big ones?

Update time, amigos! We get our first look at our MC, Henley Shaw, through this amazing art Dahlia put together:



Not gonna lie, I'm kind of fan-boying over how good she looks right now.

Team Jackson, all the way. Not enough Pacific Islander characters representation in games

EDIT: Maybe make the faces smaller on here--? Dahlia's art is amazing, but it's a lot to scroll through

Why are you telling me this on a public forum -- just text me, you degenerate

PassiveChicken wrote: ↑Tue Nov 17, 2020 11:47 pm Why are you telling me this on a public forum -- just text me, you degenerate

Oh, it's fine. Also:

PassiveChicken wrote: ↑Sun Nov 08, 2020 12:44 am
1) What's your favorite fast food item?

Chick-n-Tater Melt Munchie Meal from Jack in the Box. Got me through my college years

Hello everyone!

Just wanted to give a project update.

The hard work continues as we slide into winter's cold, blustery grasp. Somehow, we managed to trick a couple more professional artists into working with us since our last update: ds-sans (viewtopic.php?f=62&t=36158) and KEIRAworks. I want everyone in class to laugh at them now. I can't believe it. They fell into my trap. Now their names are in the credits and they can never leave. Ho ho ho ho ho, hee hee hee hee

Expect updates into the glorious new year. And then, in January, it begins!

MY GOD. WHAT HAVE I DONE.

OVER A THOUSAND, CLASS. WE'VE HAD OVER A THOUSAND VISITORS TO OUR COZY LITTLE INTERNET HAMLET. I'M TOUCHED. AND DISGUSTED, MITH MYSELF

How have I allowed the page for our game to be so ugly for so long? I'm EMBARASSED. EMBARASSED, is what I am. So today I edited the post and made it better. It's so much BETTER. I almost daresay it's BEAUTIFUL. But I can't -- they'd call me CRAZY.

Anyway, um, so I reworked some stuff on our introduction post. And we have a bunch more art that's in development, but I just wanted to share a preview of something one of our artists is working on for the game's intro:



And then we're also polishing off the last couple backgrounds. Here's just a peek at the corporate office of [REDACTED]'s fast food company, Angles.



thanks for the thousand views everybody!

Sovereign and Mackie are very clearly the winners in the chibi department

Everything about this project is hilarious, and given that I consider myself a connaisseur of the finest trash food, this aligns wonderfully with my interests.

1) What's your favorite fast food item?
From a practical standpoint, the Wendy's 4-for-4$ combo. It's got one of the best dollar-to-calorie ratios ... and there is a Wendy's underneath my office. From an artistic standpoint, KFC's double down. I don't think this needs an explanation.

2) Any of the guys stand out to you?
I'm definitely most interested in the General. I'm a sucker for his type of character, and I'm digging the inclusion of a silver fox as a LI. As mentioned before, I also stan a certain chicken-based monstrosity which gives him extra bonus points for marketing genius.

3) How many choices do you like in your visual novel? Frequent with small repercussions, or a few really big ones?
I personally like a little bit of column A, and a little bit of column B. I think being able to make small choices adds a lot to the interactivity of the game (even if they ultimately don't have a huge impact on the plot, I find some games can do a lot of interesting characterization with an extra line or two of dialog). That being said, I do enjoy feeling like my choices have some impact on the narrative. In my experience, VNs with frequent small repercussions often unlock good/bad endings based off of how attached the LI is to the MC ... which depending on what happens can make the events that happen in feel a little bit arbitrary (especially with bad ends). Regardless of how many choices the VN has, I do prefer choices that have big impacts on the plot to be obvious.

Notomys wrote: ↑Wed Dec 02, 2020 8:50 pm 1) What's your favorite fast food item?
From an artistic standpoint, KFC's double down. I don't think this needs an explanation.

Hahah, you're absolutely right. No explanation needed there. Those really were somethin'.

I don't know if you ever tried it, but for a while taco bell experimented with a similar concept with the Naked Chicken Chalupa, and good GRIEF -- say what you want about it being a food crime, that thing was tasty.

Glad you like the General! I have a soft spot for him myself. He's definitely not as flashy and eye-catching as [Kai] or Sovereign, but I think once people see what he's like in the game they'll warm up to him like cold chicken dropped in a deep fryer


UPDATE!

Just wanted to share the latest sketch we've got for our remake of Central. Can't wait for you all to see what else we've got cookin' when the demo drops!



Regarding progress, our CGs are %100 finished. All we have left are three sprites and one background, then I can patch everything together and drop the demo. Thanks again, everybody!

UPDATE!

Phew, it has been a while. Just wanted to keep up to date on progress. With all assets either finished or in the works, we're 100% on track for our January release. On Saturday we begin recompiling the game with the finished art in-engine. Besides the finalizing of a few assets, all we have left now is a few surprise pieces of...uhm..."art" that I'll be peppering into the final product.

I can't wait for everybody to get their hands on this thing! Hopefully all you fine folks are keeping safe out there.

...have you finished the rewrite yet?

JRaw wrote: ↑Sat Dec 19, 2020 12:21 am ...have you finished the rewrite yet?

Of course not. Cyberpunk came out, lol

Hey, everybody!

No update this time, but I just thought about something fun that I wanted to share:

Early on we played around with a lot of ideas for what we wanted Supersize My Heart to be, and before Henley Shaw was our main character, the game was going to star a featureless protagonist detective whose inner monologue sounded like beloved actor Matthew McConaughey. It obviously didn't make it into the finished product, but we did get this narration out of it that will always be close to our hearts. HUUUUUUGE props to voiceactorguy (https://www.fiverr.com/voiceactorguy?so ... eller_link) for his phenomenal work!

Enjoy!

https://soundcloud.com/user-645962310/i ... al_sharing