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Dev Diaries

December 28th, 2024

And just like that, I'm writing and posting the very last devlog of the year! I wasn't sure what 2024 would bring, and yeah I did get sucker punched more than once, but I also had some nice and welcomed surprises.

So! What now?

HSD:JY 2

...I'm not playing. I really need a devlog dedicated to solely High School Daze stuff. 🤡 Just need to decide what's not spoilery and what's not (too) ranty.

KO-FI RESUMES! AGAIN!!

Given that I wasn't producing anything of note, free or worthy of money, I paused billing again LOL! Fun stuff going up again in the new year! 2025 will be me figuring out how to continue to be consistent *and* decide what kind of content I want to post there versus elsewhere.

LOVED VN

T'was not meant for this game to release this year buuuuut I'm really hype for Summer 2025 now! #LovedVN is a summer tale, and I find myself thinking about these characters a lot. Depending on where I am, you might get a sneak preview during the Amare Fest, but I promise I'm making this project worth the wait for all of us.

OH, BOY

Yeah, no, I really wrote this game for me AND IT WILL SHOW BUT I DON'T CAREEEEEEE!!

My teammates for this project are amazing??? Absolutely fantastic humans??? The best of the best???? And they too are in love with this story (and the main characters) as much as I am??

"Gemini, you keep talking about this game like we know what you're talking about." Okay. Fair. Oops.

Oh, Boy is a bite sized, romance flavored game with multiple endings about college sophomore Janella who's Going Through Things™️ with her friends and decides to go to a concert on campus. There, she sees the guy she loves to hate (...or is it hates to lo-- *BANG*) Kendrick, and you, dear player, determine how the night ends!

(BTW it's SFW game so like...yeah. But! There will be bonus content shaped something of the 18+ variety so stay tuned if you're freaky like that???? 🤣)

Aaaaaand there will be partial voice acting!!! I casted both roles and my GOD they are Janella and Kendrick??????? It's insane how much giggling I've done going over the script and realizing their voices will be saying the lines. Like......this is probably my fave project idea to date because of the trope involved (bickering to lovers, yes that's totally a legit trope, leave me beeeeee.)

Mmmm what else can I share with y'all...

The new tunes!!!! Have a sneak peek of one of them:

I want to get permission from my artists to share art tingz first, so maybe that'll be a next month task! (Janella is so cute and Kendrick is definitely the star of homegirl's dreams! Also we're getting CGs which is SO!! EXCITING!!)

A fun development fact: when testing this game before I rejoiced that I'd have a designated programmer, I wanted to ensure all the endings were achievable. But I had to make a whole ass GUIDE because I kept getting the same two endings 🤡 I'm still in awe at how much I struggled.

ENDING NOTE

I have no idea the posting order of things, so if my yearly game review post is live, check that out! If not, I have 3 more days left in the month to post it!

Thank y'all so, so much for another year of sillies and games and blogging and creation. 💛 Hummingbird Games turned 4 this year and I'm a little sad that I can't call myself a toddler dev anymore. I'm a whole kid now, and ehhhh, "kid dev" just doesn't sound all that good to me 🤣

I'll workshop it!

Happy New Year from yours truly,

Gemini 😊

[accio-victuuri]

cpn: a healthy serving of clownery. 🤡

Happy Friday! It’s time to have some good old cpn fun. well at least to most of us it’s fun. lol. so here you go. none of this is real. I hope you all have a good weekend ahead!

these are just small stuff so chill and enjoy.

1. Eggplant 🍆 - despite the suggestive emoji, it’s not what you think. It’s actually one of those fake rumors posted before that people only realized could be real. In an episode of OOL, Gu Wei was eating and the character actually eats eggplants. We know that GG absolutely hates it and Web is the one who takes it off of his plate ( cause he likes it ).

@9:26 of this video, Web says he only found out that GG hates eggplants ( which is a lie because LHK said Web eats the eggplants GG rejects on set. he knows GG will not eat it. ). GG said he can’t even stand it’s smell.

The fake rumor was specific, it was during YS ( yusheng = oath of love ) shoot. They heard GG talking to someone and he said:

"Yes I miss you, I want you to help me eat eggplant"

Who could he be talking to? Well probably the same one who ate it for him before. 🦁

I always look at these rumors as coincidence but sometimes it’s just too much. The thing with them is one portion of it could be real but the other is the ‘fanfiction part’. For example, it could be true that I worked on set of Ace Troops and saw GG play with his hoverboard on his bday and that it looks like a gift. Then in comes the ‘fiction’ part where a I will add something like : I heard a staff say it’s from yibo or something like that. we wouldn’t know. So just take it as a sweet story.

2. Fake Vinegar vs True Vinegar - I posted the comparison on this but I wanna talk more and why this is my favorite type of candy. It’s not even a candy, It’s an observation of how a person behaves. A person that i/we spent hours watching. To those who haven’t caught up with OOL, there is a scene where the female protag brings in a “friend” and Gu Wei gets jealous. That’s where the face is coming from. I believe that actors truly take real-life expressions into their work and this is an example of that. Personally, I see the same energy but how Gu Wei did it still had the “cute” factor in it. There was still the “act” , and this is not the bxg in me talking. It was a bit comical like how these kinds of scene goes in “romantic” dramas. You’re supposed to feel for the main character but still laugh at how jealous he is.

Now let’s look:

Ah the variety! but you can ignore everything and just look at that lethal look he got during Happy Camp. A famous bxg candy and this thing just proved we weren’t seeing things. Homeboy was jealous. We understand GG. but still, it’s so scary. No one would ever want to get too close to Bobo. 🙃

3. Li-ning 🤝 Anta - I literally thought this ones were from the same company but it’s not. It features the bro handshake ( lol idk what it’s called ) for their skateboard wear line. Both companies had this type of clothes even before the boys got their titles as brand ambassadors. It’s just a cute coincidence!

4. 💦 - more proof that YBO and XZS are dating! Hahahahahaha! I’m still waiting for vlogs from YBO.

5. Wooyoungmi - this one is a clothing brand from Korea that Web wore before. It’s a coincidence (?) that GG wore the same style for that SELFIE and their Thailand fanmeet. I’m not sure if I remembered correctly, but people were saying in that presscon they were both wearing their own stuff. All the 2019 stuff are coming back with a vengeance! lol.

Wooyoungmi is a South Korean menswear clothing brand launched in Paris by the designer Youngmi Woo in 2002.It is sold through own-brand stores and global retailers. Art and architecture are sources of inspiration for the brand.The brand has become known for tailoring.In 2014, The Korea Herald wrote that “Wooyoungmi has become the most successful Korean independent menswear designer brand.”In 2021, they gave an interview for Vanity Teen magazine talking about their career and their social and political influence.

6. In another episode of deleting stuff on douban - someone posted this on weibo but please don’t spread too much incase some people say we are somehow “antis”. This is not the first time one of them requested to have a topic deleted ( Web allegedly did before ) The topic this time was “Does Xiao Zhan like Yang Zi?” Lol. I mean, I wouldn’t even be surprised that’s gonna pop up since OOL is on air and their cp fans are surely gonna rise. Or people are just curious. However, it was asked to be removed. The message received by the user who created the topic is as follows:

Reason: made a real-name complaint, and the complainant claimed that the content is an example of"Breach of Reputation". If your speech has been controlled by the website many times recently it will be deleted.

Real name complaint, meaning it’s the people involved in the topic/thread. So 50% chance that it’s GG. but if you know GG well enough, it’s logical to assume that he is the one who did this. From Day 1, his team already said to focus on the character.

I’ve also noticed in some little theater videos, GG tends to put his hands in front of him like this. Not sure if this is a Gu Wei habit he developed for the role but for a body language enthusiast like me, this screams ‘i’m keeping my distance’. Lol.

The body language psychology of clasping the hands on the chest considers it to be the expression of resistance. It is also a way for the other party to protect himself. The fear of being hurt by others and adopting a kind of isolation.

Note : it’s just an observation and I don’t encourage further double standard stuff. To be honest, some are really funny but i think we can all agree that it’s unnecessary because boxiao is szd.

That’s all for now. I wanted to add more but I wanted to post this before Friday ends for the other timezones.