I wrote a lot of script today. I felt a bit frustrated at times, there were some major oopsies (like accidentally creating 777 canvases. don't do that, it makes decker very slow LOL), in the end I managed to find a way to achieve roughly what I wanted (yay!) and that involved a lot of frantically browsing the decker community forums. Which I encourage you to do, a lot, especially when you're stuck.

I also used the chat contraption, it's very fun! I combined it with an invisible slider that counts the messages (or rather every click on the "next" button), so that things happen when you reach a certain message. It's easy to set up and it does cool stuff! Still have a bit more to do with the chat contraption/slider, but I am done for today.

Ok, so I've got two questions, both of which might seem like jokes but I promise they're not.

So I saw that NSFW was allowed, so I've begun production of what is essentially a pornographic furry visual novel, and I just wanted to make sure that wasn't going to be a problem. I fully plan on following all of the rules as stated, it being entirely played with mouse and nothing NSFW being visible outside the game, I just wanted to make sure I wasn't pushing too hard on the rules.

Secondly, and likely the more egregious question, I did also see an excerpt regarding no edgy names unless it was trying to say something. Because my game revolves around a cat man character, and is also a light satire of porn games, I decided to give it the name "SUPER PUSSY BOY FUCK SIMULATOR 2025". As much as I'd like to wax rhetorical about me writing the name because it criticizes some of the absurd and in-your-face naming conventions of porn games, the truth is I just chose that name because I thought it was funny. I love the name, but I can change it if need be.
Here is the titular character of my game also. Writing dialogue for him has been very fun.

Took me a bit, but my story is all written out. I like writing with pencil and paper when I’m going through a writer’s block, and gave myself the challenge of using 10 notecards to tell the story because Decker is like a collection of notecards anyway. I think it helps with my soon-to-be text placement.

Can’t work on the Decker cards right away though -I need to switch my desktop’s OS for that- but the story is done!

Spent the last few days fine-tuning the game mechanics. While this game will focus on characters and narrative as per the visual novel rules, there will also be some puzzle solving aspects with items and such (imagine something like ace attorney i guess). Implementing the inventory system was a lot of fun! Parts of the UI are still a WIP (as well as the messy item icons), but I'm liking how it's coming along.

And given that the main character is a witch, you can also cast spells! To simplify this process, casting spells just involves picking the right combination of symbols (and sometimes an item if the spell requires one).

The symbols are from Idylwild's Alchemical Codex. Converted it into a font so I can easily insert them wherever i want hehe. If anyone wants this font, I'd be more than happy to share it.

Besides that, I've been adding more dialogue, making more emotes for character sprites, and trying to plan this mess of a story. Honestly, the main thing I need to do now is to sit down and write this thing lmaooo.

• FINISHED MY SUBMISSION AND ENTERED IT!!!

not too much progress has been made this week

and i doubt my ability to get more done, but i will still try

one of our dogs passed away yesterday and... that's hitting me a bit hard, not gonna lie

i will do my best :p

• transferred key character art to decker that i did yesterday traditionally with white ink on sage paper and pencil, it translated super well! 
• started writing and moving forward with the direction of my second decker vn jam submission, which is more philosophical than the other one (which was pretty philosophical) but this one has more to do with life/death and human morality
• also will have a mega tender and comforting nsfw scene, probably 50/50 "the fathoms of human morality" and "fucking"

this is my second decker vn jam vn, might not finish in time, but i'm also doing it in conjunction with my pink decker jam which comes with a premade template of pinks that i conjured up!

A small progress update... I have given up on my original idea because it was getting a bit too big and complicated for my skill level for a jam time. 

Might save the idea for later. Who knows.

I'm starting over with a new idea which is smaller, suits my current skills a bit more. I was kinda stressing out before, but now I'm feeling better.

Today, I wrote more dialogs and scripts (nothing too fancy, mainly toggling on/off some canvases). I'm not sure how close I am to finish because I didn't plan an ending or anything.. well I think I know what the very last scene will be but idk how we get there :^)

I drew flowers and decor things to make my café space look more welcoming!! small touches here and there, but it is visually effective. I like alternating between writing and drawing, makes me feel less stuck.

I hope everyone's satisfied with their progress so far! slow and steady is the way for me :>

So I did a bunch of character art (at least the base expressions) since having a sense of what a character looks like kind of helps me know who they're going to be. And I've got an overall structure in mind in terms of choices and what they effect and such. But mostly, aside from whipping up a few backgrounds as I go, mostly what I've been working on is writing! Code-wise I am pretty confident in terms of being able to string stuff together, so that can wait for now, but basically what I'm trying to do is get everything written. I should be able to do so, I'm hoping to have a bit more time to myself to get through a bunch.

That being said, I'm not sure I'm ready to show any writing yet, so instead I'm going to show off another character.

Her name's Carly!

I've made a Humble and Tasteful titlescreen for my game.

So far, I've completed nearly all of the writing for my game, and all of the major programming. The only thing left are the art assets, which I've probably created about a quarter of what I will end up needing. Thankfully theres still another 18 whole days to make those, so I think I'll prolly reach the deadline despite that art creation is typically what I'm slowest at.

Right now, there are 6 endings total. 3 happy endings, one *special* ending, one bad ending, and one "true" ending. Most of them will be very quick to run through, with the only exception being the special ending, which I'm writing right now. I've also made nearly all of Roy's dialogue sprites.

(Please Ignore that Roy is missing his Iconic Head Tuft. This will be fixed in the final release.)

So far, I'm very proud of the progress I've made. I really want to share some of the dumb gags I've thrown into this game, but sadly that would ruin some of the surprise. You'll just have to wait and see for yourself when the game is released.

Slowed down a lot with development, really need to get myself into gear and finish writing and planning out the story aaaaaa. But I have managed to work on some graphics, do some bug testing, and clean up my workflow (I decided to start planning the story in Twine, but realized I could literally just write it all out there and import it using the twee module lol).

In the meantime, here's my title screen (as well as the name I picked for this)! Using zazz to make them bob up and down hehehe.

Things have been speeding up a bit, the game is divided into two halves and the second one has been much quicker to make so far. The color palette is black and brown now because I figured out how to change it. It looks alright.

I'm proud of all the little characters. I feel like I could give a piece of trivia to each one, a couple are reused designs from unshared things, some have ties to other characters, or they just have very specific inspirations.

For now here's Fireby who I made last night

Writing is coming along and happening, but in the meantime I've started turning some of it into puppeteer and dialogueiser scenes. Just to make sure I know what I'm doing haha. Here's a scene from the opening.

Just submitted, I named it Viscera Was. Hopefully you enjoy it if you play it I tried my best.

I procrastinated writing dialogues and instead drew a new card background, teehee! but I had fun doing it! there's a piggy bank somewhere in there :)

I think I'm heading towards the end of my project (hopefully?) though I will not be done the second I finish the deck in itself... I have to keep in mind that it takes time to actually publish a game on itch.io

Hi! Late joiner here (though i have been lurking in the community section for about 2 weeks while learning the basics since i’m new to decker). I set up the puppets/sprites and the dialogue box between yesterday evening and this morning, i think (hope?) the hard part is done :>