#that new diner

[sugaarloaf]

“Have you seen the posters for That New Diner that has opened up in town? I heard it has some strange employees!”

I recently had the honour of being able to play test @vinillust new game while it has been in development! If you were ever a fan of the original game then you are going to EAT UP this new upgraded retelling of the story!

It was so fun being able to learn more about the characters and try and reach every ending! And all of the new artwork is gorgeous!

You can tell Vin has put lots of time into making this new game so I hope you all enjoy it!

The game will be FREE to download on Mac and windows on the 28th November!

Follow @vinillust for more updates and details about the game!

[vinillust]

i depend on you

[thatnewdiner]

DOWNLOAD FOR FREE NOW! --- You're struggling for friends in a new town and decide to check out a cute diner!

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'That New Diner', huh? Odd name for a restaurant, but I see advertisements for it everywhere. Might as well check it out.

Who knows, maybe I'll meet somebody?

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🍽️ FEATURES 🍽️

That New Diner is a short murdersim visual novel for Linux, Mac and Windows.

14 endings 30+ CGs 9k dialogue

A mobile version is in production.

🔪 CONTENT WARNINGS 🔪

Recommended for ages 17+.

medium screen shaking mild flashing graphic violence; torture, self harm and suicide

This game's purpose is to entertain and tell a story. Please don't use it for negative purposes.

[ruwupato]

Jaylee Pors, That New Diner MC!!! She is eighteen years old and works together with Akano at That New Diner. Accomplice ending MC.

It took me a while to design her, but it ended up being really cute! I hate drawing the stars on her sweatshirt.

[mayanhandballcourt]

Photographer Arnaud Montagard

[poppoforpresident]

Whew! ♪ It was just a nightmare!

+ static version

[ckret2]

So y'all know the Gravity Falls production bible that leaked three weeks ago. Someone in one of my discord servers pointed this out:

And, naturally, that spawned an entire AU.

AU Concept: Ford was kicked out instead of Stan and takes a job as a trucker to makes ends meet since he couldn't go to college, while still studying the weird and anomalous however he can.

Ford driving around from quirky small town to quirky small town, drifting through the liminal spaces of truck stops, meeting odd people in isolated diners, seeing strange things out on the road—a deer with too many eyes bounding across a two-lane highway, a flirty woman at a rest stop who doesn't blink or breathe, mysterious lights in the sky at night, inhuman growls on the CB or 50-year-old broadcasts on the radio—and taking notes when he stops for gas or food.

Aside from having gotten kicked out before graduating high school, Ford's the same person he is in canon.

He's still an ambitious guy, and here "ambitious" means working hard and saving as much money as he can—so, a long haul owner-operator who spends weeks at a time on the road. (He goes through a LOT of educational audiobooks.) Plus, this is the easiest way for him to get to travel the country; and since it looks like his "travel the world" dreams with Stan are dead, he'll take what he can get.

Since he's never in the same spot long and carries his life in a truck, almost all of Ford's research is in his journal. His bag of investigation supplies has an instant camera, a portable tape recorder, a thermometer, a flashlight, rubber gloves, and a few zip lock bags—and that's about it. It has to share space with all his clothes, toiletries, and nonperishable food when he's on the road. He doesn't have much opportunity to closely examine anything odd he finds, unless he's lucky enough to run into something when he can stop for the night. He has to cram his paranormal research around the side of his full-time job.

He doesn't live in Gravity Falls, but he knows it exists. Every time he moves—to Chicago, to Nebraska, to California—he seems to inch closer. He currently lives in Portland and usually hauls loads between the Pacific Northwest and Chicago or New York. He stops at the truck stop outside Gravity Falls when he can and has gone fishing in town a few times. He doesn't have the benefit of extensive research to know that this is the weirdest town in the world; but it seems pretty weird to him, there are local rumors about the town, and he's had some weird experiences in the area.

Plus, he can't explain it, but it's like the town's calling to him. He wants to move there, but it'd put him over an hour outside of Portland where the nearest jobs are. Maybe if somebody chucked him like $100k to build a cabin in the woods; but what are the odds of that?

He does know Fiddleford. Truck broke down somewhere and Fiddleford kindly pulled over to fix it on the fly. They looked at each other, had mutual knee-jerk "dumb trucker/hillbilly" reactions, and within ten minutes both went "oh wait you're the most brilliant genius i've ever met." Fiddleford's living the same life he was in canon before Ford called him to Gravity Falls—with his family in California, trying to start a computer company out of his garage—but they make friends and keep in contact.

One time Ford stops at a kitschy roadside knickknack store that also sells new agey magic things—crystals, tarot cards, incense, etc. He bought a "lucky" rearview mirror ornament that looks like an Eye of Providence in a top hat and hung it from his cab fan, and ever since then he's had weird dreams whenever he sleeps in his truck.

Things I don't know yet: what Stan's up to; or why Ford's the one who got kicked out. I tend to believe that in canon Stan wasn't just kicked out because he ruined Ford's college prospects, but rather because the family thought he deliberately sabotaged Ford; so in this AU, Ford would've been kicked out over a proportionate crime.

[lascitasdelashoras]

Dennis Stock - Woman in diner, New York. 1960

[blueinkjpeg]

Deck nine, making Max a photography professor at a prestigious art school is the MOST interesting thing you could done with her dnksksnfnf

[neonfeel]

After Hours (1985)

[newyorkthegoldenage]

This diner had once been a real dining car on a train but was then set in a foundation, 1920.

Photo: Bettmann Archive/Daily Mail

[vinillust]

My murdersim visual novel 'That New Diner' will release on November 28th! The game will be free to play on itchio for Mac and Windows, with a mobile version on the way! I have worked incredibly hard on this project and I'm excited to share it with you all!

[thatnewdiner]

That New Diner has now been released for Android devices!

Only available to download on itch.io. Laptop and PC is still recommended for the best gameplay experience.

Download here!

[thesmilingproudwandererswor-blog]

found a warm story about Mackie he's lovely 😍

but why he got a New York-plated car?

[mayanhandballcourt]

Photographer Leah Frances

[galina]

The irresistibly sumptuous wood and glass interior at Thai Diner, where the roti kaeng fak tong is pure heaven, even (especially?) for breakfast