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Leo 🐺🌕 Amadeus: A Riddle for Thee Dev 📹✨ Haruhi Suzumiya Stan

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https://linktr.ee/amadeusgame Musician, multimedia artist, game developer, old camcorder surgeon, analog video enthusiast, ex-Tales of Symphonia speedrunner, ROMHacker, person with too many hobbies

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Leo 🐺🌕 Amadeus: A Riddle for Thee Dev 📹✨ Haruhi Suzumiya Stan @arcanaxix.bsky.social · Nov 29

A desperate werewolf navigates a tale woven by Witches...

Amadeus: A Riddle for Thee ~ Episode 1 ~ Waltz

feature-complete demo OUT NOW! (Mac | PC | Linux)

✨ 4 scenes of hybrid visual novel + point-and-click
✨ big braining encouraged

links: linktr.ee/amadeusgame

Amadeus: A Riddle for Thee ~ Episode 1 ~ Waltz Cinematic Opening

YouTube video by Arcana X.I.X

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Leo 🐺🌕 Amadeus: A Riddle for Thee Dev 📹✨ Haruhi Suzumiya Stan @arcanaxix.bsky.social · 7h

all the compressors, EQ, slight pitch tweaks, slight timing tweaks, testing 8000 combinations.... all that nitpicky bullshit....... # W O R T H

Leo 🐺🌕 Amadeus: A Riddle for Thee Dev 📹✨ Haruhi Suzumiya Stan @arcanaxix.bsky.social · 7h

"i sure hope those hover and footstep sfx sound as good today as i remember them sounding"

*playtests for 3 seconds*

"HOLY SHIT 😚👌🔥💯💯💯💯"

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Leo 🐺🌕 Amadeus: A Riddle for Thee Dev 📹✨ Haruhi Suzumiya Stan @arcanaxix.bsky.social · 9h

Appropriate soundtrack for sad angsty werewolf game. Apparently. Idk this fucker just lives rent free in my brain now I can't remove him

FY Character Songs - Ka Chou Fuu Getsu

YouTube video by FushigiYuugiOST

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Leo 🐺🌕 Amadeus: A Riddle for Thee Dev 📹✨ Haruhi Suzumiya Stan @arcanaxix.bsky.social · 9h

Let it be known that the last background image in Amadeus, seen only in the last interactible point-and-click scene in the game, in a very melancholy context, was drawn while listening to Chichiri's theme from Fushigi Yuugi on repeat (Ka Chou Fuu Getsu) ((certified Wise Bishie Monk banger))

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Leo 🐺🌕 Amadeus: A Riddle for Thee Dev 📹✨ Haruhi Suzumiya Stan @arcanaxix.bsky.social · 10h

Today's schedule:

- wake up at 8am
- draw for an hour
- fuck this I'm tired.
- 4 hour nap
- .....what year is it

Leo 🐺🌕 Amadeus: A Riddle for Thee Dev 📹✨ Haruhi Suzumiya Stan @arcanaxix.bsky.social · 14h

2025 experience in a very concise format lolololol

Leo 🐺🌕 Amadeus: A Riddle for Thee Dev 📹✨ Haruhi Suzumiya Stan @arcanaxix.bsky.social · 21h

I WAS LITERALLY THINKING OF YOU WHILE I DID THIS FHDSKLFJS

Leo 🐺🌕 Amadeus: A Riddle for Thee Dev 📹✨ Haruhi Suzumiya Stan @arcanaxix.bsky.social · 21h

the sound design in amadeus has gone from "serviceable" to "sometimes i almost want to mute the music to listen to it" which is crazy considering the music is, like, the actual main event of this whole thing. you all better appreciate my footsteps ok. do you promise

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Leo 🐺🌕 Amadeus: A Riddle for Thee Dev 📹✨ Haruhi Suzumiya Stan @arcanaxix.bsky.social · 21h

SHOUT OUT TO THE ME OF LIKE 4 YEARS AGO WHO TOOK A TON OF WEIRD RECORDINGS INVOLVING AN OUTDOOR PIANO AND A SPOON. THEY ARE THE BEST AUDIO SOURCES OF ALL TIME

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Leo 🐺🌕 Amadeus: A Riddle for Thee Dev 📹✨ Haruhi Suzumiya Stan @arcanaxix.bsky.social · 21h

oh.... oh this hover sound effect is REALLY good.........

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Leo 🐺🌕 Amadeus: A Riddle for Thee Dev 📹✨ Haruhi Suzumiya Stan @arcanaxix.bsky.social · 23h

i enjoy picking and choosing when to use Mystery Rules and when to pull out "it's magic, i don't have to explain shit"

Leo 🐺🌕 Amadeus: A Riddle for Thee Dev 📹✨ Haruhi Suzumiya Stan @arcanaxix.bsky.social · 23h

"wait this thing shouldn't be there because this other thing happened first, do i have to change something or is there some way that could still work" [10 minutes of brainstorming on a blank document later] "oh fuck yeah. this is good shit"

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Leo 🐺🌕 Amadeus: A Riddle for Thee Dev 📹✨ Haruhi Suzumiya Stan @arcanaxix.bsky.social · 23h

ok my favorite writing thing is when you find a plothole, and you think you have to fill it, but then it turns out the plothole actually implies a cooler plot than what you had originally planned

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Leo 🐺🌕 Amadeus: A Riddle for Thee Dev 📹✨ Haruhi Suzumiya Stan @arcanaxix.bsky.social · 1d

the other sign is I never DM my old unity professor questions anymore when that used to be a weekly thing 💀

Leo 🐺🌕 Amadeus: A Riddle for Thee Dev 📹✨ Haruhi Suzumiya Stan @arcanaxix.bsky.social · 1d

It's fun now that I am competent enough at Unity/C# that I'm able to implement new logic on top of what I already have, without like, major reworks or breaking what's there. That feels like the biggest sign I've improved as a developer. lmfao

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Leo 🐺🌕 Amadeus: A Riddle for Thee Dev 📹✨ Haruhi Suzumiya Stan @arcanaxix.bsky.social · 1d

The footsteps sidequest is proof that I can't just focus on asset replacements in the final stages of gamedev or I'll just get bored and just not do shit. It's imperative I also continue to give myself random mechanics to implement. As a treat

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Leo 🐺🌕 Amadeus: A Riddle for Thee Dev 📹✨ Haruhi Suzumiya Stan @arcanaxix.bsky.social · 1d

theme song of locking in: www.youtuberepeater.com/watch?v=q1qV...

Final Fantasy VIII - Maybe I'm a Lion - Repeat in a loop

Type 'repeater' between 'youtube' and '.com' and your video will automatically repeat/replay in a loop. Use a mini player without menus or toolbars. Check top repeated videos.

www.youtuberepeater.com

Leo 🐺🌕 Amadeus: A Riddle for Thee Dev 📹✨ Haruhi Suzumiya Stan @arcanaxix.bsky.social · 1d

the good news is that since i listened to "maybe i'm a lion" from FF8 on repeat while writing my 20-page research paper at the last minute all i need to do to get into crunch mode is pull up the youtuberepeater tab that i already have bookmarked :^)

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Leo 🐺🌕 Amadeus: A Riddle for Thee Dev 📹✨ Haruhi Suzumiya Stan @arcanaxix.bsky.social · 1d

if anyone wants to know my secret to recording satisfying footstep sounds is i have this one very uncomfortable pair of boots that are uncomfortable as hell and sound FUCKING AMAZING for footstep sounds. i also taped broken plant vase shards to the bottom of them when recording

Leo 🐺🌕 Amadeus: A Riddle for Thee Dev 📹✨ Haruhi Suzumiya Stan @arcanaxix.bsky.social · 1d

which is hilarious because in some scenes with really loud dissonant music you can barely hear them. BUT they are there, and they sound awesome.

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Leo 🐺🌕 Amadeus: A Riddle for Thee Dev 📹✨ Haruhi Suzumiya Stan @arcanaxix.bsky.social · 1d

well, amadeus was never going to have footstep sounds, but now it has 3 different subsets of footstep sounds and a mechanic that randomizes them in time with the animation and also fades it a little when he's farther away, and there are a total of [checks notes] 31 source footstep sounds used.

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Leo 🐺🌕 Amadeus: A Riddle for Thee Dev 📹✨ Haruhi Suzumiya Stan @arcanaxix.bsky.social · 1d

Really feeling the "I've been a busy boy" 9/11 Garfield comic rn

Leo 🐺🌕 Amadeus: A Riddle for Thee Dev 📹✨ Haruhi Suzumiya Stan @arcanaxix.bsky.social · 1d

ok im ngl tho the footstep mechanic IS real nice. now that it exists. instead of the asset i was supposed to draw today fdkslgdjksf

Leo 🐺🌕 Amadeus: A Riddle for Thee Dev 📹✨ Haruhi Suzumiya Stan @arcanaxix.bsky.social · 1d

my brain is objecting to current oppressive working conditions and has decided to go on strike. it will not draw the last remaining background of the game until demands are met.

demands in question: "please chill the fuck out a little bit"

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Leo 🐺🌕 Amadeus: A Riddle for Thee Dev 📹✨ Haruhi Suzumiya Stan @arcanaxix.bsky.social · 1d

me: im so stressed. im gonna throw up. idk if i can finish everything on my to-do list

me: [ignores my to-do list for today and spends 2 hours implementing randomized timed footstep sound effects while amadeus is walking]

[[THIS WAS NOT AN INTENDED OR PLANNED MECHANIC]]

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