Update: A Few Hours Later I Am Now Here And I Am Still Shocked

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Join us we shall take home victory once more

@maplesweater and I talking about how to prepare for the war.

Join the night order. We have Sephora and teenage rebellion!

I don't even know what to say anymore I think these two responses combined just fully encompasses all my thoughts on this.

Wow.

Sigh

I've been playing for a year as of two weeks ago, and I STILL don't have Maple Ninja because the pavilions refuse to drop the kunai and shurikan. I had the entire suit crafted within three months, except for those.

Fucking pavilions, man

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We're getting another Barbie collab you guys

If you check the website just like last time (you can find it on the FB post) you can get reward codes that have this stuff:

Just like last time if you pull every day you're guaranteed to get everything-so no dupes with the special code rewards!

And can I just say real fast dOGGO

Okay but on the suits I looked at them and I'm excited? They look great and we're getting a mystery one too

Anyone else excited? I barely participated last time around and I lowkey regretted it so this is great-

I was thinking about this post earlier and I realized I left a part out I was originally gonna include but forgot involving the barbie collab suit.

The thing is, naturally after seeing this, one would wonder why they didn't do that for the Barbie collab suit, instead of giving us a copycat skin, but I actually have a few answers.

First of all, as a hobbyist game dev myself, I can tell you that a game dev won't know the full capabilities of their system, unless they test a bunch of random things out, and even then it's unlikely to know the full capabilities. So it's very likely that until recently they didn't even know they could do that.

So then why didn't they try it out for the Barbie collab? Simply because since it was a paid collaboration with something as huge as BARBIE, that wouldn't be the best time to try new things. They had a product to deliver and definitely wouldn't want an event suit that important to have major bugs or issues, so best to play it safe. Not to mention they most likely had a time constraint considering it was, in fact, a paid collaboration.

So, why not try it earlier? Time. We've had quite a few new things come to us recently, as well as bug fixes and the likes, so they were undoubtedly kept busy with that. Not to mention something like this would require thorough testing before being released as a feature, so that would require time as well.

So why was this a complication in the first place? The game wasn't originally built to have multiple skin tones, as the original Miracle Nikki server was launched without them. Skin tones weren't a thing that was introduced until after the english server was launched, and english players began to ask for them. They came for free alongside an old streetwear event and a free suit (youth storm). So the original game's code wasn't even built to handle more than one skin tone, much less default poses for them. The skin tones that came with these suits were, of course, coded as such, and we've never really had a need for items coded as part of multiple suits before, up until recently, when people began to ask for dark skin exclusive suits.

TL:DR; The devs had probably never messed with the possibility of an item being part of more than one suit before and more than likely only tested the possibility recently due to having the time to do so.

So yeah, I just wanted to add this because it's been rolling around in my head all day. I am in no way usually on the dev's side, but I can see why this might have happened this way.

The new wasteland pavilion event piqued my interest until I found out it was, in fact, a pavilion event. Then I was sad. But now I'm slightly interested again because they did something that I thought they couldn't do because of the way the game was coded

They managed to make warm ray part of two suits simultaneously.

That might not seem important, until you realize that this means they can have true dark skin exclusive suits, which I've seen many players asking for, without giving us copycat skin tones in order to make the default pose in the gallery not look kinda really terrible

So honestly? I may be disappointed with the price, and I won't finish it when I could finish evernight instead, but like, good on the devs for finding new ways to make our server happy despite the many various demands I see. I hope they keep this trend up in the future, though preferrably with less hell spam. What's up with all the hells lately this is getting out of hand

AAA Sorry to bug you again, one last jam question... How does judge feedback work? Are there numeric scores that people get in categories (categories like coding, design, ect given a score out of like 5 or 10 for each category based on how well they did?)? Do y'all give out score sheets/written critiques/ect for each game?

Ah don't worry about bugging me, you're fine!

With judge feedback, it's essentially no different from the kind of comment you'd get on a normal game page! It's simply us saying what we liked, what we didn't like, our opinions on the strengths and weaknesses of your project, etc. There's no scoring or anything like that. Every team (including teams comprised of a single person of course) will get individual feedback from each of us judges on their game. In the end, it's really just our thoughts and opinions, not any be all and end all judgement on what is good and what is bad, so don't worry too much about them, okay? ^^

doot doot

When you don’t have all the fancy ghost gathering stuff so you go a little crazy with whatever flower stuff you can find and the blood color ~also good luck everyone woooo~

I don't know how many people who see my posts know about Hetalia but uh I realized that the coffin item from the new suit made a nice background in my icon so I added it to my favorite set

Annnnnnd I just now remembered that my set is an attempt to make APH Prussia and that's maybe not the best idea to have-

I mean I'm still gonna keep it but yknow

Gamedev progress update from Cune and I! A text box mockup and a map WIP :D

So I feel like it should go without saying but just in case, the mockup is intentionally shitty and no we did not keep a random ass sand square we just thought it was funny.