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[evillittlebug]

in case you haven't heard...

OF THE DEVIL IS LIVE ON STEAM AND FREE TO PLAY! the demo encompasses the entire prologue--about 2 hours of playtime.

so, so proud of what my tiny 3-person team has made. deeply inspired by ace attorney, danganronpa, and a slew of cyberpunk fiction.

if you've got a couple of hours and want to read a good mystery, please give our game a shot.

i think it's something special.

[ofthedevil]

wishing you a PULSE-POUNDING ❤️ SUSPENSEFUL 👻 MYSTERIOUS ⁉️ HALLOWEEN!

why not spend such a terrifying night tucked in with Morgan? download murder mystery visual novel ‘of the Devil’ for free on itchio!

[yournightowl]

Your Night Owl #001

i don’t know what i'll be when i grow up, but i’ll never be a journalist. 

Journalists are basically despised in our country. i’m pretty sure it’s the same everywhere else. Everyone figures that there’s only two types of people working in media:

Hollowbrained conspiracy huffing idiots

Sameless sell-out begging for scraps underneath the tables where state and corporate meet to break bread and ruin our lives

That’s all basically true, but i also think there’s a third type: the ones with enough disposable income and raw bravery to write whatever they want regardless of how little money, or traction, or clout, or SEO there is to be made off of it. 

i could never be that kind of journalist.

i’m not even brave enough to sign my name at the bottom here.

But i do like research, and writing, and i think it would be nice if some people somewhere could see what i’ve researched and what i write. So if i’m never going to make a career of this, it’ll always only ever be my hobby, i figured that theres no harm no foul in starting while i’m young.

So today i’m starting my blog: Your Night Owl.

Don’t give me any crap about the name. The net’s been around since the 1980’s. Even if you think nothing before 2056 counts as “real internet” that’s still decades and decades and prefixes and prefixes of bytes worth of names for shit. There can’t be that many good original names left for anything, on here, blogs included.

The name’s not changing. To change the subject-

Like everyone else with net access and at least two braincells, i’ve heard a lot of chatter about a certain serial “Un-Alive-er”/dt who likes to “ping”/dt people through the “center of their cardiovascular system”/dt. (Sorry about all the double-type, but i’m really not trying to get Slapped on my very first blog post)

Heard, not read. The spoken word has to be transcribed before it can be scanned for "certain words and phrases”/dt so micro-casts and Snippets and Call-outs  are the only things staying up long enough that you can actually interact with them. But in the short-lived comment sections and tags on those posts, I’ve been seeing people use “</3” as doubletype.

“Less-than slash three,” was my first honest impression. 

It really took me a half minute to sound out what it meant, because i didn’t recognize the heart. i hadn’t seen it a long time, which is a shame, because <3 is cute.  We stopped using it at some point, or at least people my age did. Why?

i gave it some thought, looked through some old texts, CTRL+F’d a few forums and got my answer in the form of a slap to the face.

We stopped using <3 because we started using <D. We traded The Heart for The Lightbulb.

Everyone in my class uses The Lightbulb for anything cool or fun or generally positive. The Lightbulb which, upon closer inspection, really doesn’t look like a lightbulb. More like a parachute or an ice cream cone.

So why do we call it The Lightbulb

Because The Lightbulb is the logo of Noble Electronics Technology Incorporated.

It’s no accident. Noble’s one of the biggest corps that’s ever been, with whole armies of employees and contractors dedicated to cultivating a very specific brand image. Turns out, a few years back some of those soldiers started a little PR campaign (throwing buckets greasy with money to a huge range of net influencers and personas) to get people to start using <D instead of <3. 

Sounds forced, right, ha-ha? Well you’re laughing at yourself, not them-  because it worked. Just by spending money in the right places, a small group of people managed to convince us all that <3 < <D.

(See what i did there? i used < as Less Than)

This isn’t a conspiracy theory, because there’s no conspiracy involved (they’re very open about this).

i got all this info straight from their own post-mortem (which features a step-by-step breakdown of every step of the campaign) listed under the “Success Stories” tab on the marketing firm’s website. It was only three clicks removed from their home page.

Sorry for all the censoring, but i had to cut out a critical mass or even this literal screenshot could get flagged.  At least Noble’s so big that they can’t possibly police how people talk about them. i can criticize them by name here- Yay!

i have to squint very hard, but i can make out one silver lining in all this: the once pure <3 emoticon that Noble ordered lobotomized has come roaring back to life all because there’s an unhinged un-alive-er/dt on the loose. It’s nice to know that the almighty corporations’ bottom lines can still be shaken by a single individual armed with nothing but a    ̿̿/̵͇̿̿/’̿’̿ ̿ ̿̿ ̿̿ ̿̿   and the voices whispering poison in their head.

(sorry if the emoticon doesn’t look right from where you’re reading but i don’t know a shorter doubletype than Those Things That Have Triggers and Safeties)

To be perfectly clear: i’m no fan of </3.

But i do think <3 is worth saving. so i’ll be doing what I can to reclaim it, because it’s cute and fun, and we shouldn’t let corporations take all the cute and fun stuff from us.

Sorry for editorializing towards the end here. 

Actually, you wouldn’t be reading this if you didn’t care about what i have to say.

My bad. i won’t apologize for that kind of thing from here on out.

Signing off for now,

yoru night owl

edit: to everyone in the comments: i didn’t actually make a typo! Yoru has a meaning. look it up!!

edit2: i forgot my signature

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[biblicalsignsith]

"THE DEVIL IS WORKING OVERTIME": 200 Bibles Were Burned Outside Tennessee Church on Easter Sunday

“There is no fear of God before their eyes.” – Romans 3:18 “In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil.” – 1st John 3:10 DAILY MAIL reports: A trailer containing hundreds of Holy Bibles were set on fire and left outside an Evangelical Tennessee church on Easter Sunday. Officers from the Mt. Juliet Police and Fire Department responded to a suspicious fire at the…

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i played model employee good game! cant wait for @ofthedevil :)

[devil-s-dump]

[film-book]

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[skaucher]

Just in case you forgot #cucumber #ofthedevil https://www.instagram.com/p/CXcytxgqi8SRS95dYNPx9syhpVjZqziQaCdEcY0/?utm_medium=tumblr

[donutloverxo]

Pls reccomend new blogs I’m tired of seeing the ones I follow make it big and start acting rude in an attempt to be funny

Hm. I have seen it before unfortunately. Lots of people do act rude and play it off as being funny. Either way thats their blog, they can run it however they like. I hope me and my friends never turn into that.

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[evillittlebug]

after-hours Morgan Monday

play my game

[ofthedevil]

Character Design

Morgan's role in our story was always going to be active. We know who she is, where she wants to go and how she'll go about it. As a protagonist, she came into the design process with a firm style and attitude all her own, ready to forge ahead through a narrative driven largely by her whims, desires, and faults.

Her rival, District Attorney Emma Rockford, had to be ready to stand firm against her.

Emma's name in the first draft was "Rival", because it was always much more important that she be a threat than she be a Prosecutor.

Because we knew we were designing a character to contrast with Morgan and we had already solidified her look, we went through relatively fewer design iterations with Emma.  Where Morgan was suave, stylish, put together and presentable, Emma was clumsy, disheveled, exhausted and disorganized. While she knows about fashion and can recognize quality, she’s lacking when it comes time to actually put together the energy to get everything pressed and ironed. Her more neutral palette and “wallflower” bangs and glasses place her firmly on the opposite end of the scales  against the bright and energetic Morgan.

If Morgan’s a finely polished hand-me-down watch, Emma’s the latest designer handbag buried at the bottom of a closet.

Writing & Synthesis

While her palette was chosen early to contrast with Morgan's, we experimented with various degrees of "attempted fashion" for her outfit.

To be a good District Attorney, Emma had to be intelligent, driven, considerate and calculating- and to be a good video game rival, she had to do it all without breaking a sweat. Emma walks into the prologue and immediately upturns everything the player and Morgan achieved over the past hour or so- and she does it while yawning. This immediately establishes her as a real threat and a serious challenge to overcome, so we’re hoping players look forward to clashing wits against her when they step into the courtroom in the next chapter.

We hoped to infuse bits of arrogance through her expressions and speech to clearly define her relationship to the protagonists and get players excited about the prospect of besting her.

As a formidable intellectual rival for the protagonist and Heartbreak, Emma has to be smart, but she can’t be smart in the same way Morgan can, because we don’t get to actually see Emma’s gears turning processes or hear her trains of thought. She progresses through puzzles in leaps and bounds, spurts of energy and insight that can at times, leave the more methodical Morgan in the dust. She’s always one step ahead in a frustrating game of catch-up…until she isn’t, and the player gets to revel in the joy of besting her, right alongside Morgan.

Glasses were one of the features we knew we wanted for Emma from the beginning- to set her apart in a world of cybernetics and let her express a range of emotions by hiding her eyes.

Two-faced in a different kind of way, Emma’s all business when it comes to the adversarial process. She’ll push Morgan, HK, and players to their limits in high-stakes games of legal poker in chapter one: an idle mind.

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[ruinedeyes]

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TEAC ECHO 8. I cannot believe I'm going to sell this evil overlord of pure aural hallucination. #delays #ofthedevil (at Analog Anonymous)

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[sofiaqueenvallarino]

I love u Vlad. #dracul #vladtepes #vamp #ofthedevil #inklove #myfavouritetattoo