#burning midnight oil

[tokyoviee]

productivity day 15 & 16

day 15. morning 9 am to evening 8 pm.

physics - motion in a plane. [7 hr online lecture.]

botany - morphology of flowering plants. [reviewed the families.]

break - 8 pm - 10 pm.

pulled an all nighter. day 15 (10:15 pm) to day 16 (8:00 am)

10:15 pm to 12:00 am [ solved physics pyqs ]

12:00 am to 4:00 am [ zoology online lecture ]

5 : 00 am - break. [ watched an ep of grey’s anatomy ]

6 : 00 am to 8 : 00 am [ chemistry - structure of atom ]

note : i’m so tired, it's not even funny. i’ll go take a nap now.

[lynndrawsshit]

You…you I have plans for later

[godivaghoul]

[cartoonsbyandie]

Naka's doesn't want to ask Aoko to help change his gunshot-wound bandages. (Movie 27 is looking pretty good huh)

[foxglovegames]

Pssst, we’re on Bluesky now!

We haven’t started to post regularly there yet, but plan to as soon as we’re ready to start posting about our new game!

[kellymagovern]

Midnight Oil - "Beds Are Burning" [x]

[gameo-archive]

"My ?s for George Rexstrew were not that great, but he was still patiently trying to give each of them a proper answer. He answered my submissions OOO though. 1st vid but 2nd sub.

Mirror hop w/ the livings in bag of tricks

Crystal's passport & full name

#DeadBoyDetectives"

Is the show YA or adult?

Can you mirror hop with people by putting them in the bag of tricks?

How did Crystal international travel but was not aware of her full name/passport, or no passport and she uses her power?

"1st submission but 2nd video. (The order doesn't really matter. I just want to keep everything straight for myself.)

Charles & Crystal's goodbye kiss. Edwin's thought & feeling.

Did the out of order filming affect the scene?"

When I saw Charles and Crystal's goodbye kiss I thought, poor Edwin! How cruel of Charles to do that in front of him after the confession. It reminded me of that famous panel from the comics. I get that Charles thought it was the final goodbye but still. I want to know Edwin's thought and feeling in that moment. And also, do they change after inviting Crystal into the group?

Did the out of order filming affect the scene?

"A bit more info on the notebook.

Asked about the crossed out "Do not ring" for the Limbo's bell. (I'm still confused about his answer. Shouldn't it be NOT crossed out if it's correct to not ring?)

How DBD would deal w/ non-western cultures' monsters, myths, beliefs etc."

You said the maps of Hell have existed for a long time, so did Edwin draw them as soon as he got out?

How did they acquire the notebook and bag of tricks?

How was Edwin able to get the family emblem on it?

Why was 'do not ring' crossed out next to Limbo's bell?

How would DBD deal with non-Western cultures' monsters, mythologies, beliefs, etc.?

"(final Cameo)

Cut due to him mentioned my bday date. He was so wonderful about everything. Really appreciated this opportunity he's given us. And for a great cause as well.

Asked for fun facts/bts he hasn't shared with the press"

Can you share any fun facts or behind the scenes bloopers you haven't shared with the press?

[niceminipotato]

So I was exploring as one does in Ao3 and found this fic, Possession is Nine-Tenths (Or so they say) by Mistigris108, and like I’m only in chapter five and like wow I’m here for all of it please and thank you. It’s an older fic as in 2021 so maybe the potatoes have read it. To those of you who haven’t make sure to check the tw please.

… also it is complete! I think lol I’m barely at the beginning. One third down.

[myimaginaryradio]

Beds Are Burning - Midnight Oil - 1987

[skitskatdacat63]

I started a "big" drawing of them, but didn't wanna get too into it, so here are some small Hussar Martian :)

[angeltreasure]

[tokyoviee]

girlhood spectrum on a monthly basis. 🪢🔪

[ominous-horse-noises]

watching pt2 of the finale rn and YEAAAAAH SUCK SHIT KIPPERLILLY APOLOGISTS I ALWAYS KNEW THAT UPPER MIDDLE CLASS BITCH WAS EVILLLLLLL

[whydoyouhavetobefictional]

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: The Mentalist Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Patrick Jane/Teresa Lisbon Characters: Patrick Jane, Teresa Lisbon Additional Tags: Hotels, Roadtrip, Pre-Relationship, Burning the midnight oil I see, small moments of intimacy between them, tags will be updated as I go Summary:

Lisbon thinks about the miles they’ve driven together, crossroads, hundreds of bodies, bad coffee and terrible tea in the gas stations, the way Jane says her name when he picks up the phone.

[blurban-form]

Midnight Oil

Is that one of Bluey’s relatives around the 1:00 mark in the music video for “Beds Are Burning” by Midnight Oil? Maybe? 😉

Check out this eighties classic.

[foxglovegames]

DEVLOG: AUGUST 2024 🦇

It's already time for the August wrap-up??

Demo Progress

It seems no matter how much we get done, there is always more work to do haha! That said, August has been a good month and we have made a lot of exciting progress on the demo for BURN THE MIDNIGHT OIL. :)

Programming

Please welcome Renbie to the team as our lead programmer! 🙌

The past week have been spent prepping sprites and setting things up in Ren'py. Although we still have a long way to go, the game feels more real than ever now which is both exciting and scary!

If you followed the development of Trouble Comes Twice, you might already know that programming was a big hurdle for us and a major source of frustration. ;( Now that we've got some more experience under the belt thanks to Trouble Comes Twice, we already feel a lot more confident but having a dedicated programmer on the team is going to be a massive help both time and quality-wise. As a bonus: Renbie's also super lovely to work with, so we're super happy to have her onboard!

Art

We mostly made progress on promotional assets. We decided on a sketch for our key art (check out a little sneak peek at the top of this post) and received the first sketches for some of our merch designs! They're looking super cute!

Writing

With the demo script done and dusted, most of August was spent outlining the main game's six romance routes. The routes (subject to change) have five chapters each and various longer endings and shorter 'bad/death' ends based on your decisions.

BURN THE MIDNIGHT OIL has dual protagonists, so similarly to Trouble Comes Twice, we're two writers in charge of one MC each (and the MC's respective three routes). Unlike Trouble Comes Twice though, the cast here is a lot larger and not as (directly) connected.

So, how do we outline our routes? First, we wrote shorter summaries of each route - including important themes, character motivations, etc - which we then go over together. Although the plots of the two protagonists are very different, we have to make sure we keep the same 'themes and vibes'. We also need to be careful that the pacing and the scopes of the routes aren't too wildly different!

With the feedback from the shorter summaries, we move on to write the detailed outlines. (Here, we regularly reach out to each other and get feedback on minor elements and sometimes run brainstorming sessions when one of us runs into a wall.) Once these are done, we're going to have another review and write as many drafts as it takes until the routes are ready to enter the writing phase!

We're super excited about a lot of these scenes we've got planned and though you guys don't know much about the project yet, we think you're going to love the ideas we've got once it's time to learn more! We learned so much from Trouble Comes Twice that we can't wait to apply to this game! 🖤

Goals for September

There's too many little goals to count! But the major ones are:

Start looking for music composers, item artist, visual effects artist - we're not doing a public post for these, but if you or someone you know might be interested in one of these roles, shoot us a DM! ;)

Making as much progress as possible on the remaining UI screens

Making as much progress as possible on the merch designs

Continue working on the detailed outlines

Continue programming yay

Fingers crossed, we can get the key art done and dusted!

There's still so much to do, but we really look forward to the next couple of months!