06.02.2024 Rkgk

Missing a 5th option: Is Kira.

Time to look at what weird music selection makes my brain go happy

Broken Crown by Mumford and Sons

2. Virgin by Manchester Orchestra

3. Breath of Life by Florence and the Machine

4. Soldier by Fleurie

5. Castle by Halsey

@invith @vamptones @madhousefruitcake @nibbles7192 @starrynightskies-art and anyone else really. I don't really have a lot of favourites cause I'm unsocial. no pressure if your don't wanna participate.

🎶✨ when u get this you have to put 5 songs you actually listen to, publish. then, send this ask/tag 10 of your favorite followers (non-negotiable, positivity is cool)✨🎶

1. Love and War by Fleurie

2. Howl by Florence and the Machine

3. New Divide by Linkin Park

4. Silence is the Enemy by Papa Roach

5. Yellow Flicker Beat by Lorde

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03.03.2024

So here is a taster for what sort of art I do. Here's to hoping tumblr doesn't hate it.

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

To whoever granted me the gift of the Durarara!! Saika arc manga from ebay, you have no idea how happy I am right now.

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.

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