#happy land vn

[nifreti-ii]

Silly skittle clown

Yeeeeeee, I really like him… very unhinged but in a cute way. I also love characters with long tongues and it tickles my brain. Anywhooooo, I love duality so Im kindaaaa hyped for the demo/ch1. They’re chaotic af and I LOVE IT ALKWJDHLAKWJAW, sorry im normal (not, im fucking not dude) I also like Doe, sadge bean whom I wish to hold in my arms and pamper :> 

Im so glad that I asked about what color they bleed/blush because I can have a lot of fun with any future drawing of Exe ehehehhe Just colorful barf. I kinda forgot their poms poms and had a mini heart attack half way through the drawing :P 

Okay and, The fact the NSFW alphabet confirms that they started wearing the leotard when we came about SENDS ME OMG. Bro is not hiding the fact he wants to bone/be boned by MC aAAAAAA- aight im good now (not) I do plan to draw Doe sometime in the future :D (I wanna grab exe’s hips-)

Check out my Masterlist for my art and (limited) writing! ;)

[bimboothefool]

Briar in Other Universes✨

Huge Disclaimer a majority of these VN’s are intended/made for those who are 18+ & up! Minors don’t play/interact with these games, respect these creators wishes.

[papsthepepsota]

Does it jiggle when he moves-

POW POW

[solarweer]

Bald Doe.

Yes, no horns either :)

[impulsive-gay-everything]

Simultaneously the hardest and easiest sims I've ever made, Exe and Doe. Finding the cc was difficult, but it was easy to make the actual sims. These honkers come from the delightful mind of @happylandvn, and they are actively consuming my brain. As usual, I didn't make the cc, just recolored.

[thrill-seeker-vn]

Hello everyone. I have no idea how to start this post, but I want to start it as upfront as possible.

TLDR: My uncles shipped my sick grandmother to my home, and they called me to tell me only after she had already landed... when her visa was expiring very soon. And so obviously 1. My job was to keep her alive, and 2. I had to scrounge up money to send her to her home. It has been a very few stressful months. 

In between this, I hit a slump with writing, and felt very burnt out, as I had no time for it between work, trying to keep my grandmother alive, my own health, and my own business. I wish I could say I worked on Thrill Seeker in this time, but I simply couldn’t. I think a huge part of what was so daunting for me was only having myself to rely on and set the schedules, and in a way it came to be that there were lengths of time nothing could get done because there was simply no time in my life to do it. 

This is not meant to be an excuse as to why I was away from the blog for so long. It is simply what made me realize that I cannot continue alone on this project, as I would then be taunted by how much I would have to do that I would end up not being able to do anything at all. 

I was discussing this project with a friend of mine who has been beside me since I started this project, who I know shares my passion in making games, and who has rooted for me from the beginning. While I’m more interested in the storytelling, she’s incredibly fascinated with coding. During this time, we discussed perhaps making a game together-- but recently we got the opportunity to make that into a reality. 

Thrill Seeker is not ending, but rather, it will be changing format. I am so happy to say my incredible friend, Kismet (@kismet-dev), is going to be joining me to reform Thrill Seeker into a Visual Novel! She is one of my best friends and is the most organized person I know, so no more falling off the face of the Earth for me, because I’ve put a lot more planning into the game and now have someone to hold me to my schedules, too!

I understand that it could be disappointing to hear that I’m switching from an entirely text based format to a VN style. I apologize to anyone who is disappointed by this change. It’s been amazing the support I’ve gotten for this game and how many people have stuck to the project, even when I’ve been so flaky, and I want to thank you for sticking to the project when I haven’t been the most reliable developer. I am so grateful for your kindness to me, for all the people who have sent asks and been interested in my characters and story.

When I first created this project, it was just not a viable option for me to make a visual novel, as there would’ve been no chance I had the opportunity to create art, write, and code it. But creating the art for the game inspired me more than when I only had words to go off of, and many different concepts for the game that I had in mind were simply harder for me to make into reality on twine. Thanks to the absolute angel that is my friend Kismet, I will actually be able to create the vision for the game that I’ve seen in my head for the longest time. She’s an excellent programmer and such a wonderfully organized and hard worker, and I know that I wouldn’t have anyone else by my side as we begin to make games together. 

I will be making some changes to this blog as I make it more cohesive for the VN, but I will also use it as an opportunity to organize this blog for those who are interested in knowing more about the characters, settings, etc. It’s a little unorganized and hard to find certain questions, and I’ll do my best to fix that! Note that this will mean that changes are coming to the characters, and pretty major ones. I know that many of the asks I answered in the past will no longer apply to the story as I’ve changed it, so I will be reforming it quite a lot. However, what will not change is the characters themselves; they will still be gender selectable, and their personalities will still remain similar; but I feel like some of my characterization of them has been shallow, and I’m going to be fixing that. 

The launch of the game as a visual novel, with the first chapter, will be coming in August. Thank you so much for reading all this and I hope you have a wonderful weekend!!

[thursdaysrain]

im going to try posting here every day for . i dont know. a while. and see if i get a feel for it. just whatever off the cuff no editing

recently i watched adventure time front to back (having seen maybe 30% of it forever ago), and i feel kind of goofy for being one of those like 'woah this kid show is so deep and good' converts but there's just a lot of meat on those bones, i guess. it takes itself seriously thematically!

as always consuming very good fiction over such a dense period (i worked through like everything - 10 seasons, distant lands, and fionna and cake - within a few weeks) my brain is rewired and i feel bonkers.

unfortunately i have intense shipping urges but to my dismay (although not unexpected) it is not even one of the top ten ships on AO3 (63 out of 4k works). of course this aired during an era tumblr i'm not so familiar with but i know things were much darker on here 5-10 years ago for Problematic Fanwork.

finn/pb seems to be a radioactive ship. anything i see about it always has all these caveats or is like trying to thread the needle of not specifically being about a manipulative functionally-immortal queen grooming (in both connotations of the word, really) a young teenage boy to be Her knight. not to mention it loses out to pb/marceline, which is 1. gay 2. baited from early in the show and 3. ended up 'winning' and maybe most importantly, unfortunately, 4. is Not Problematic

dont get me wrong i like them together a lot. and i am very happy that it was canonized, or whatever. but there's just so much insanity inducing material w/ finn and princess bubblegum. the show regularly points out how fixated on her he is while also showing again and again how much of a possessive control freak pb is.

there's a lot that keeps running through my brain bc of AT, some things more interesting/useful than others (such as a specific perspective on like, disaster, time, and life going on despite everything that resonates strongly). but no i keep coming back to this weird thing. i blame my chldhood exposure to tenchi muyo for why i am the way i am. this is just my washu/tenchi thing all over again. that's literally what it is what the fuck

i dont think i could get into writing fanfic. im too obsessed w/ worldbuilding, like, over planning things, i cant just slap out a short story. maybe it's worth forcing myself sometime. the closest i ever got (except a couple pieces i wrote in elementary school and lots of fan chatroom RP) was i was planning for a 2hr renpy fanfic vn about manbagi from komi san (maybe my most rabid fixation on a character and a huge outlier) getting together with tadano. komi san kind of lost its momentum for me though, especially with manbagi rotated out of the main cast after her devastating (but inevitable) loss in the main ship war.

all this to say my only recourse is to rotate these cubes in my brain over and over until they shatter into countless pieces and leave their marks on my other works. there's a luxury a long running serial work has, and it's time to really ferment, and i regret i have no such luxury. i suppose that's another benefit of fanfic, though, being able to lean on that.

[nicohverse]

Entropic Float's One Year Anniversary!

One year ago today- On July 7th, 2022- I released the 300k+ word long visual novel Entropic Float: This World Will Decay and Disappear, at no cost on itch and steam.

(Madeline by @unluckyerror404 on Artfight)

It was a labor of love- I worked on it for just over a year and a half, and my life changed a lot during that time. I got a job related to my degree, then proceeded to crash and burn when it turned out that I couldn't actually manage that job alongside my chronic conditions. Working on Entropic Float was the only thing during that time that really made me happy at all, so it's no surprise I ended up quitting for my health shortly after release...

Since I released Entropic Float, lots of things have happened. I've seen it referred to on reddit as 'the queerest game I've ever played'. I've received wonderful fanart. People have come to me saying that the game helped them realize they were physically disabled. My good friend, the vtuber FreyaFukunaga, played through the entire game on stream. There have of course been bad reviews too, negative feedback- No game can be for everyone, and Entropic Float is a game for some rather specific people. I've taken into account critiques made in good faith, and made efforts to improve these things where possible in updates to the game, and even moreso in the way they will be structured in Entropic Float 2: Land Of The Witch.

But before we talk about Entropic Float 2, which I'm sure you've all been waiting for information on, let me put some concerns to rest. I have, by no means, been doing nothing all this time. EF2 is coming along, though not in ways that are easy to share. Still, have a look-

Admittedly, it's a bit ugly without all the extra buttons, text, and more that will accompany this frame- It's just one small piece of the GUI I've been building. Entropic Float 2 is a big shift in style from the first game- For one, I'm no longer using Koikatsu for talksprites or environments. For another, it's going to be a point and click adventure game (Though the final release will include a 'kinetic novel version' option for those who prefer to play VNs on auto-advance!). You can see it, right? The menu buttons along the right edge, an inventory with tabs you can cycle in the bottom right corner, some information about the current state of the game in the empty space on the left...However, besides EF2, there have been other things I'm working on, and I'll admit to having some trouble finding a good workflow. During EF's development, it was simple enough- In my free time, I did those things which made me money (commissions, convention prep) and when those were done I worked on Entropic Float and did very little else. This workflow can no longer apply, because in the interim year, I've been building my small business, Nico's Fan Niche, on etsy. There are some pieces of Entropic Float merch available there! But the point is, now it seems there is always 'something to do which can make me money', as designing new products has a direct impact on my life now.

Besides the store, I'm also involved in other gamedev projects- I continue to be support staff on Heart Fragment, and am the primary artist of an RPG with a few friends of mine, yet to be formally announced. To top it all off, I do still have a day job. I work 30 hours a week (sometimes up to 39) with a studio called Small Victories. It's a wonderful and fulfilling position that gives me the space I need for personal projects, but that's still 30+ hours of the week not spent on those projects.

(Sharma by Quartoch on Artfight)

Finally- Entropic Float 2 is a loftier game than Entropic Float was. When I started EF, it was just for fun, to play with ren'py, and was never supposed to be as long as it ended up being. EF2 is a followup game. It needs to be bigger, better, and the pressure is on. For this reason, I decided to postpone making the game's art until after July- After Artfight 2023. My username there is nhitori if you want an attack from me! Each year, Artfight represents a huge burst of improvement for me and my artistic abilities. A talksprite drawn in June and a talksprite drawn in August would by nature be very obviously different in quality. I've been writing, outlining, working on GUI, but there hasn't been anything worth sharing on here yet.

Even so, I am very happy to announce- You should be able to expect the Entropic Float 2 Demo, and its Kickstarter, in November 2023!

Enter the Pine Creek Anomaly to discover exactly what happened in the small, Appalachian town several years ago- And why, so suddenly, the Anomaly started to invite outsiders in, after flying under the radar all this time. Kanatsune Ame returns to be guided by the player as he searches for the answers within a new cast of characters; Some familiar faces, some made more familiar after a mention in the Anomalous Clocktower, and some he's never met before at all.

And following shortly after the EF2 Demo and Kickstarter- There's one backer reward that will be fulfilled right away. Releasing in December 2023, right away for backers, just in time for the holidays if you just want to purchase it on its own (For only 5 USD- But if you played Entropic Float because it was free, and you really can't spare the money for any reason, do reach out to me.)

">It's been such a long time... But I've finally found You." (Box by Vanitasium on Artfight)

Quite a while after the stabilization of the Anomalous Clocktower, but not yet when you join Ame in the Pine Creek Anomaly- A voice calls out to you. A voice that is familiar, the voice which spoke directly to you throughout the first game. Informing you of the endings you've acquired. Warning you of what's ahead. Asking if you'd like to bring about the miracle. You never would have imagined that voice belonged to somebody. But it seems... She's gathered a new collection of stories for you. Fragments of those you've met before. Histories you couldn't see at the time, updates from the year since you left them behind. If you can read these stories and become more powerful again, like you did in the Clocktower, then maybe, just maybe... You and Her can meet face to face.

The Letters To A Beloved Ghost DLC for the first game will be arriving in December 2023! Along with the DLC, you'll also be able to install the 'Anachrono Mode' for Entropic Float. This mode replaces koikatsu talksprites with drawn talksprites in any cases where those have been added for DLC content. As the characters may be dressed in different clothing in these talksprites, and there may not be exact analogues for every expression, and the environments will remain koikatsu-style in most if not all places- It promises to be a bit anachronistic. But if the talksprites exist, may as well give you the option to use them!

One last thing- I'll be tabling in the Artist's Colony at Connecticon 2023, though I haven't got a table number yet. I also may be tabling at FANEXPO Boston 2023 (Unconfirmed), and Otakuthon 2023 (Waitlisted, but I'll still be attending as a guest if I don't get a table.) So if any fans reading this wanted to come say hello- There's a few opportunities. I might even have something for you, if you come by my table.

With that, the anniversary update is finished. That's all I've got for you right now- But there's a lot to look forward to! Thank you, as always, for reading, for playing, for being here with me on my gamedev journey.

[happylandvn]

Big news, everyone!

I have decided to add a third love interest to Happy Land after reviewing my outline for the story!

This is Elijah, the town priest's son

[h-worksrambles]

In your opinion, Which furry vn protagonists would be friends and which ones would actually despise each other

Ooo, this is an interesting question. Quick disclaimer of which furry VNs I’ve currently read:

-All of Echo Project’s stuff (WIPs included).

-Remember the Flowers

-Dawntide

-Some of Burrows

So if I don’t mention a particular protagonist then please bear with me.

-Alex from Glory Hounds is prone to being somewhat neurotic and extremely self deprecating. I feel like he and Chase from Echo would be mutually enablers whose conversions would turn into pessimistic, self pity parties. They wouldn’t especially like or dislike each other. But there would be shared commiserations over every minor grievance all round.

-Marco from Adastra and Cyrus from Remember The Flowers are both talented, friendly academics who’ve seen some shit after being stranded in a strange new land. They’d likely jokingly share stories in a competition about who had it worse. But under the irony, they’d appreciate being able to confide about their similar experiences. Plus, given some of the similarities between Amicus and Aaron, I feel like they’d have a good laugh about their similar taste in men.

-Scipio from Khemia and Samuel from The Smoke Room would likely hate each other if they met. Sam would think Skip is a stuffy rich smartass (kind of like how he initially reacted to Cliff). While Skip would find Sam obstinate and uncouth (and I feel like there’d be a bit of class snobbery). However, get them into therapy together and I feel like making a few mutual breakthroughs might actually make for a solid friendship and knowing both of them, they’d probably end up hooking up at some point in that case, let’s be frank.

-I think Chase and Grey from Burrows would both struggle forming lasting friendships with any of these guys for a lot of the same reasons. They’re both relatively chill people to talk to one on one, but they’re both too selfish and in their own heads, and tend to screw up their friendships by…overstepping boundaries if you catch my drift. By the same token, they would absolutely despise each other because of a classic case of ‘I’m in this picture and I don’t like it.’ Bonus points if Chase can see all of Mark’s red flags and points them out at length to Grey, who does to Chase for Leo, unaware of their hypocrisy for failing to see the warning signs of their own respective former partners.

-I’ll finish with the three Echoverse protags because the existence of the modern AU means that this triple meet up could actually happen. Aside from a similar ‘they’d all be best buds in therapy’ element, I do think Sam and Chase would appreciate Cam’s talent for music. Though it’s anyone’s guess how they’d convince him to sing/play for them. Cam might consider inviting either of them on a double date with him and Devon (which also doubles as way to have Dev with him to make ice breaking less awkward) . Sam, choosing which, if any of his boyfriends to invite, decides that inviting Murdoch (who may or may noy be high at that given time) along to meet Cam might not be the most sensitive move, and that Will might be a bit too prickly towards strangers. So he settles on inviting either Nik, who is just touched to see a happy, loving couple like Cam and Dev, or Cliff, in which case they and Dev spend the whole evening talking past each other infodumping and loving every minute of it. Who does Chase bring? Well depends on the route I guess. But, for one, I think Kudzu could relate to a lot of Devon and Cameron’s experiences and would get along very well with them. It’d take some time, but I could see a cute little friendship forming here.

Thanks for this. I admit I’m not the best at coming up with headcanons but this was a fun little mental exercise. I hope I came up with decent stuff. And I’ve honestly been hoping to get some asks about Echo or other furry VNs. So this was doubly appreciated. Please don’t hesitate to send and others my way! Thanks again!

[the-art-of-sanshoku]

Master Post

My art tag “my post": https://www.tumblr.com/the-art-of-sanshoku/tagged/my%20post

Hi! This is my personal blog mainly for posting fanart and reblogging fanart from other artists that I like. Right now I've mainly been doing toku stuff but I'm into many, many fandoms I swear 😭😭. I like toku, anime, manga, VNs, RPGs, basically all the weeb categories lmao.

I spent most of my earlier life crammed into STEM studies, got my degree, got a job that pays the bills and now try to use my free time to foster my real interests in art and language learning - what a twist.

My asks are open if you want to talk about stuff on my blog or even request doodles of characters from fandoms I've talked about on here (or from the fandom list under the cut). I'll (probably) answer!

Fandoms I've wanted to make art of but haven't gotten around to so honestly an ask might be a good excuse:

Final fantasy VI/XV, Fire emblem, Casshern sins, Kaiji/Akagi, Raidou Kuzunoha, Castlevania Blue lock, Gridman, Princess Tutu, One piece, Yu Yu Hakusho, Radiant Historia, Eyeshield 21, Ping Pong the Animation, Devil survivor, Persona, Dungeon Meshi, Chrono Trigger, Fata Morgana, Blazblue, Guilty gear, Yakuza, 3 gatsu no lion, Vinland saga, Hanako-kun, Legend of the Galactic Heroes, Gundam, Zatch Bell, Madoka Magica, Mob psycho 100, Land of the Lustrous, Kono oto Tomare, Jujutsu Kaisen, Evangelion, Berserk, Maoujou de Oyasumi, Blue period, Danganronpa, Marriagetoxin, Medalist, Witch Hat Atelier, Ikoku Nikki, Jigokuraku, Kyou Kara ore wa, Umineko, Pokemon, Ace Attorney Disco Elysium, Nier, and honestly still so many others

And Fandoms I've already talked about but I'm always happy to keep talking/drawing about them:

Kamen Rider, Baldurs Gate 3, the Xeno series (gears/saga/blade), Monster Hunter, Unicorn Overlord

[hallow-moons]

Names in Last Legacy and their meanings

I made a post like this a while back but didn't go into too much detail and only did the names of the main 3 plus Rime, Lucan and Elowen.

So here's a more in depth look plus more characters.

Sage - Latin for "wise" or "healthy" or English for the sage plant.

Lesath - 1. Greek meaning "foggy." 2. The name comes from the Arabic las’a, meaning “pass (or bite) of a poisonous animal.” Also one of the stars in the Scorpio constellation.

Tulsi- Hindu meaning "basil"

Ain - Arabic meaning "eye" or Estonian for "Yahweh is gracious." Also one of the major stars in the Taurus constellation.

Anisa - Arabic for "pleasant companion" or a possible play on the star anise plant.

Anka - Hebrew meaning "grace" or "favor." Ankaa is also a star in the Phoenix constellation.

Felix - Latin for "happy" or "lucky."

Iskandar - Arabic variant of the name Alexander.

Escellun - Son of Escell.

Elowen - Cornish for "elm tree"

Lucan - Italian for "light" or the Irish variant of the name Luke

de Bhaldraithe - An Irish surname

Rime - English meaning ice or frost. Or Old English for a poet or minstrel.

Solano - Spanish & Aragonese for "place exposed to the sun."

Varela - Galician meaning "belonging to the sea."

Saaros - (Saros) Greek meaning "sweep" or The Saros Cycle - A period in which eclipses repeat themselves.

Azimuth - (noun) 1. the direction of a celestial object from the observer, expressed as the angular distance from the north or south point of the horizon to the point at which a vertical circle passing through the object intersects the horizon. 2. The horizontal angle or direction of a compass bearing.

Orion - Greek meaning “rising in the sky” and “dawning.” Also "The Hunter" star constellation.

Vega - 1. Spanish meaning "dweller in the meadow" or "one who lives on the plain." 2. The name is a loose transliteration of the Arabic wāqi‘ (“falling” or “landing”), from the phrase an-nasr al-wāqi‘, meaning “the falling eagle.” Also a star in the Lyra constellation.

Florian - German form of the Roman/Latin word for "flower" or "blossoming."

Valerian - Latin meaning "strong" or "healthy." Also a type of plant.

Anguis - Latin meaning "dragon" as in the Hydra constellation.

Scylla - Greek meaning "tear", "rip", "smash to pieces." A sea monster in Greek mythology.

Escella - daughter of Escell

Balsam - German occupational name for a seller of spices and perfumes or Latin balsamum 'balsam aromatic resin'

Celena - Greek meaning “the moon.”

Escell - no name meaning found

Mirun - Greek meaning "myrrh"

Ayanna - Swahili origin meaning "beautiful flower."

That's all the characters from the actual VN, but below I wanted to include my two LL MCs as well. Just for fun.

Aura - Latin for "wind" or aura as in spiritual energy.

Gallagher - Irish/Gaelic meaning "foreign helper."

Ris - Bosnian word for the Lynx cat.

Alcyone - Greek meaning "kingfisher" (a type of bird), and the name of the brightest star of the Pleiades in the constellation Taurus.

[versegm]

Happy pride, Lands of Fires is a gay furry VN based on the cultures and oral traditions of pre-colonial Australia, if any of this sounds cool to you you guys should check it out.

[veiledlinks-vn]

Hello hello, I just found this VN project and I got really excited! I was wondering, how long do you plan for the demo to be? And do you know how long the finished game will be? Good luck with your work!

Hello, hello, sweet anon! I'm happy you're excited already. ;w;

I can't say for sure how long the finished game will be in regards of word-count and playtime, for now. I'm half-serious, half-joking striving for 300k+ words in total. The demo will be much shorter, around 60k+ words, but we'll see what the actual count land on.

If that doesn't tell you much, then know that the demo will span over approximately halfway through the first chapter. That won't be enough to start developing romance, but friendships might start to form, depending on how you play. ;D

Thank you for the ask! ^^

[happylandvn]

Elijah now has color!

[joyeusevt]

I was a bit sheepish about it at first (I don't know why, it's literally my page) but I wanted to show off the main character of my upcoming VN! Her name is "Verz," and she's a proud musician and radio show host! You can read a snippet of her bio from within:

"A social butterfly," they called me. It's not something I'd call myself, though. I just knew how to mingle with the right people. They talked about me. They didn't talk to me. If they did, all they'd get was just another street urchin playing at any level of royalty.

Every day, I get my equipment turned on and tuned up, slip my headphones over my bed-head, and wait for the clock to strike twelve before going live.

"Good noon, and stay tuned to Genesis!" It used to twist my tongue for ages, but after saying it for so long, I had grown content with it. It was my radio station, after all.

In such a poverty-stricken land, you'd think that the last thing these people needed was a radio station. But to them… it's all they could have ever asked for. Anything to take the stress off of daily life. Anything to kill the vibes they can't fend off themselves. With no family of my own to talk to, the least I could do would be to touch their hearts.

Some people would call in, as well. Express their happiness, their sadness, request songs or just… simply say "I love you" to the people they enjoyed the most. Even if they were no longer with us. While I couldn't entirely sympathize with them, sometimes… I could feel my heart aching.

Of course, life's never easy. If it wasn't for my show, nobody would know who I was.

And now, nobody will.

As I stand in front of the charred remains of my studio building, my equipment warped and broken on the ground in front of me, I can only wonder what kind of enemies I've made to have cold steel pressed against my head.

"A social butterfly," they called me. "An ugly duckling" would have been a more fitting gravestone…