Wait Wait- Can We Restart? Whats With My Last 2 Posts 😭

I DUNNO WHO THIS IS CUZ IT IS NOT ME /hj (this was as close as I could get it, anyways omg look my dog so c00t)

I dont have anyone to tag lul 😁

cute thing im coming up with

this picrew of yourself and your current hyperfixation !!

no pressure tags @pearlzier @julesssyy @reidsfavoritegirl @whitney23317 @willowsblanket @flowercrownsandtrauma @rottenletter

I have not been able to stick with a fandom for a few months and right now my top 2 are mha and/or sonic sooo... thats something I guess.............

all I have to say about the lore today is that im happy q!Tubbo is finally like- having emotions LMAO

like all bro had before was being insanely sad and pretending to be happy all the time and NOTHING ELSE Bro was like never scared or ANYTHING, no other emotions AT ALL and now hes actually able to talk about his emotions and stuff :O

I noticed Sunny sorta picking up on his old emotion habits too so im hoping she also becomes more open now too (the masking her emotions.... like bro just called her out fr on stream today LMAOO)

Also I love that bro got scared(?) when they were going to get his things from his body cause hes like... never had that before? literally just trauma T-T and if he did he at least never addressed it before and said everything was fine

it seems like stuff actually affects and bothers him now which is interesting to say the least. Even if we aren't used to it, how hes acting now seem like more appropriate responses than just being like "lol idc"........ at least most of the time

im not gonna talk about his random anger cuz idk what thats about..... like thats the only bad thing really? Other than that he seems fine to me even if hes not acting like he used to

boo-womp

Making an art and actually coloring it and shading it and highlighting it- WHATS GOING ON I literally just said yesterday why I dont draw anymore and then proceed to make something thats like the best thing ive ever colored in the past 3 or so years?????

michael afton content save me (there is very little new content..)

BUTTERS FROM SOUTHPARK PLE- oh similar thing...

GLAMROCK BONNIE I BEG OF YOU TO TAKE ME AWAY FROM THIS- WHATEVER THIS IS

hi I think everythings blocked again????? idk so see you when its back???? UNLESS ITS ALREADY BACK????? IDK IM SO CONFUSED just so people know where im at if im gone for like years again or smth

MH doodles :P! too lazy to tag not like its anything intresting anyway

Hey Doggo, how do you go about writing the story script (not coding, just writing) for your games?

Particularly how you incorporate the "choose your own adventure" concept where choosing an option can lead to an entirely different exchange.

I am making a (sorta) Dayshift fangame and found myself having to write the entire story as an "if then" flowchart.

Is this the method you use as well? Or is there annother way?

Depends on the scale.

For DT, specifically, I usually plot the route story out on a flowchart first and then when I'm happy with the story, I go scene by scene and write the characters doing what I've plotted out. It's not uncommon to go BACK to this chart and make changes as I'm writing though, as you usually think of good scene ideas/changes on the fly.

Specifically I mainly just list what happens in a scene (aka, what characters discuss, basically a few sentence summary) and then I represent splits that majorly affect content, like when you make a route divergent choice. in DT, all content after these splits are totally divergent, so this is pretty clear cut. With the exception of one short split at the start of Karen's route, you don't tend to really get stuff rejoining after major choices.

Then when it comes to writing the actual script, I just write everything in plaintext (no character tags or anything like that) because I'm unhinged. The only dialogue that's really indicated as being different in any way is Gingi's bc it's in quotation marks. However, in multi character scenes it tends to be obvious who's saying what just based on what the characters are saying and how they say it.

As a for instance, this is from from Oliver + Theoroar's scene. You can kinda tell from context who's who without the caps affect being applied for Theoroar's dialogue.

You can map dialogue in flow charts if it makes it easier (draw.io is what I use as it's free + easy to use) but if you plan to have a LOT of dialogue, it can make the process of actually implementing dialogue a little more time consuming since you have to paste from a format that isn't already more or less engine-ready. The idea of having it in a plaintext doc like this, for me, is that I can copy + paste really fast.

But yeah, usually when I write these sorts of things, I just shut the windows, doors and go into a scary trance like state of hyper-concentration and then wind up with something that passes for a finished conversation by the time I've finished. Hope this helps!

oh yea

I was also tryna make a design for Michael (Afton, feels weird saying his full name) but guh,,,,,,,, im still not sure yet,,,,,,