#holiday magic

[seraphinitegames]

Drum roll please....so after the update last week, I am SO excited to reveal the surprise project Mishka is working on!

🎄 ❄️ Holiday Magic: A Wayhaven Christmas Story ❄️ 🎄

This ‘novella/side-story’-type game will be a lovely short story between books to indulge in some fluffy, light, super romantic holiday fun!

It will be available on itch.io for everyone to purchase but will be offered for free as part of the $5 and up Patreon membership tiers as a MASSIVE THANK YOU to all of Mishka's Patrons who have supported, and continue to support her, so generously (it will be available as a Windows download, and we are trying our best to get this sorted for Mac users too)!

I'm sooo looking forward to revealing more about this project - I just know it's going to be magical

[catalisst]

[tiva-challenges]

TIVA CHALLENGES is a fanfiction writing project for fans of Tony and Ziva from NCIS (2003) running before the spin-off NCIS: Tony & Ziva drops, with new writing prompts every month! Organized by @television-overload and @indestinatus.

Deck the halls with lots of Tiva!!! Oh, wait...

The everlasting Tony & Ziva train has arrived for the winter holidays, and here we are celebrating yet another year of cherishing our beloved duo of criminal investigators!

DECEMBER'S PROMPT:

Tony & Ziva: Holiday Magic

Additional information under the cut:

🎄 This month, you are tasked with writing a short Tiva adventure set in the holidays. Be inspired by the cold winds of winter, the soft love of Christmas, or even the quick stolen kiss on New Year's Eve. We're accepting all genres of stories, including AUs, this month.

🎄 Works will be revealed WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 25 at 16:00 GMT.

🎄 The subcollection for posting this month can be found here. If you have trouble figuring out how to post to a collection on AO3, check out our tutorial.

🎄 If you post yours here on Tumblr, make sure you tag us so we can share it! The tag for this project is #tivachallenges.

Lastly, as always, if you have any questions, please reach out and we'll be happy to answer them! Happy writing! HO HO HO ✨

[aricampos16]

Christmas 2024 Edit

[shortandplastic]

[00waywardalma00]

❄️💀❄️

[toypoetry]

Ready for Christmas 🎁🎄✨🎶❄️🥂

[blumoonfiction-blog]

#ShowsWeLove: Red One

When it comes to Christmas movies, there’s no shortage of feel-good flicks that fill us with holiday cheer. But every once in a while, a film comes along that redefines the genre. Enter Red One, an action-packed, heartwarming Christmas adventure directed by Jake Kasdan and written by Chris Morgan. Premiering in 2024, this Amazon MGM Studios production blends festive fun with high-octane action,…

[theomenmedia]

Hot Frosty Tailer Out Now

Dive into the magic this holiday season with Hot Frosty! Lacey Chabert and Dustin Milligan bring a snowman to life in a way you've never seen before. Get ready for laughter, love, and a lot of festive fun!

Check out the trailer here: https://www.theomenmedia.com/post/hot-frosty-brings-the-heat-this-holiday-season-a-sizzling-trailer-breakdown

[seraphinitegames]

The Wayhaven Chronicles - Update 10/Nov/2023

Super busy week this week! We have a very strict schedule to ensure this Christmas story is released on time, so it’s full steam ahead :D

We decided to do this game on the Ren’py engine, which obviously is quite the switch. It will still be text-based, but we can add a bit more pizzazz to it with some fun Christmas designs, GUI, as well as add in some music!

Obviously, this does present the problem of not being able to transfer in saves from Choicescript, but as this is a stand-alone story not affected by main game events, so that’s not a worry.

But I do want it to be super quick and easy to make your MC in this game seeing as you can’t just transfer them in—definitely not have to go through dozens of screens to do that! So I’ve managed to come up with a way to make it that you can pick your stats on one screen—simple and quick!

Nai has been designing the GUI aspects, and they look SO merry and amazing! You might have seen the work-in-progress stat screen I was just talking about this week that she posted.

It’s been quite the experience re-learning how to code GUI again, as it’s been quite some time that I’ve worked on Ren’py, and it’s been updated quite a bit since then :D But it’s coming together really nicely, so very pleased with that and the feel it’s giving to the game!

Something else I forgot would need to be thought of is fonts. So we’ve been trying to figure out the best font to make it unique, Christmassy, but very readable.

We’re also starting to think about how to look for some testers for releasing it on Mac computers. I’ve never had issue with releasing visual novels on Mac in the past as Ren’py games seem pretty stable on those, but we want to be super sure of it before being able to say yay or nay! :D

And then of course there was writing and coding the actual game itself, hehe! I’m having to be more strict with myself on too many dialogue choice sets seeing as it’s supposed to be a lighter game…but you guys know what I’m like by now, lol! Still want it to feel like a Wayhaven game and just as immersive 😁.

I hope you all have an amazing weekend! We’ll be offline as usual, so I’ll update you all again next Friday <3

[alteabellerose]

Spent the last literally hour and a half firing up my laptop I haven't touched in over a year for this because I didn't have the willpower to wait for a mobile release

[millennialromanceaddict]

And this alone has made Holiday Magic a delight! I love seeing Agent Suavewell in action. Also, I totally had this quote pegged as an M line; what a delightful surprise that it's Nate (or Nat)!

[aricampos16]

Disney Princess Christmas Edit

[bidotorg]

Billie Eilish (#Bi2) warming our hearts this holiday season 🎄 https://bi.org/en/famous/billie-eilish

https://bi.org/en/famous/billie-eilis

[flameshadowwolf]

He’s so 🥺