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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 · 54m

I should email her and be like "you have no idea how much I took from the like 30 minutes I spent with you that one time" jdjdheksj

Leo 🐺🌕 Amadeus: A Riddle for Thee Dev 📹✨ Haruhi Suzumiya Stan @arcanaxix.bsky.social · 56m

The most important thing I learned in the one graphic design "lesson" I've had (1-on-1 discussion with someone who worked in the marketing department 2 jobs ago) was how to thumbnail. Fast, shitty, really broad strokes of layout. Genuinely a life-changing skill

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Leo 🐺🌕 Amadeus: A Riddle for Thee Dev 📹✨ Haruhi Suzumiya Stan @arcanaxix.bsky.social · 58m

Found the concept sketch for my menu redesign. Lmao

A very simple pencil doodle of a square frame, on the left are the words "settings, blah, blah, blah" listed out and on the right are vague lines showing a patterned background and some chunks broken off

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Leo 🐺🌕 Amadeus: A Riddle for Thee Dev 📹✨ Haruhi Suzumiya Stan @arcanaxix.bsky.social · 2h

YAAAAYYYYY CONGRATS 💖

Leo 🐺🌕 Amadeus: A Riddle for Thee Dev 📹✨ Haruhi Suzumiya Stan @arcanaxix.bsky.social · 15h

At this point I also think I need to remake my checklist for the last 2 weeks. It's short enough now. And there are enough new items from playtester feedback (and enough scratched items that just aren't important enough to worry about anymore) that I need to reprioritize again. One last time 😩🙏

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Leo 🐺🌕 Amadeus: A Riddle for Thee Dev 📹✨ Haruhi Suzumiya Stan @arcanaxix.bsky.social · 15h

Tasty is the best adjective a font could have I think. Thank you.

Leo 🐺🌕 Amadeus: A Riddle for Thee Dev 📹✨ Haruhi Suzumiya Stan @arcanaxix.bsky.social · 15h

Thank you I destroyed a ceramic jar and photographed its shards as source assets and spent an entire day editing together different versions until I was happy with it 💖

Leo 🐺🌕 Amadeus: A Riddle for Thee Dev 📹✨ Haruhi Suzumiya Stan @arcanaxix.bsky.social · 15h

anyway look, your save files have time and date now instead of absolutely 0 feedback that saving worked :)

screenshot of the main menu in amadeus showing a line under each save file reading the time and date

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Leo 🐺🌕 Amadeus: A Riddle for Thee Dev 📹✨ Haruhi Suzumiya Stan @arcanaxix.bsky.social · 15h

brain also doesn't count crossing off several items that are ultimately not essential on The List as making progress, either. brain is being a bit of a shithead if I'm honest

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Leo 🐺🌕 Amadeus: A Riddle for Thee Dev 📹✨ Haruhi Suzumiya Stan @arcanaxix.bsky.social · 15h

3 new really nice-to-have mechanics implemented today, about 5 feedback points addressed, and 3 bugs that were undiscovered yet today all fixed, yet my brain is like "wow i didn't make any progress today" because it's technically only half a checkmark on The List

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Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 2d

Another option to upgrade from Windows 10 is Windows 95.
It's 85 versions ahead, it will blow your mind how advanced it is.

New installation of Windows 95 on a 1990s ThinkPad

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Leo 🐺🌕 Amadeus: A Riddle for Thee Dev 📹✨ Haruhi Suzumiya Stan @arcanaxix.bsky.social · 20h

sigh. i am running out of procrastination mechanics to work on instead of drawing the 20 art assets i really need to draw

Leo 🐺🌕 Amadeus: A Riddle for Thee Dev 📹✨ Haruhi Suzumiya Stan @arcanaxix.bsky.social · 22h

it is with a heavy heart that i must announce that nobody gets to be the first person to play a shitty cover of Megalovania on the MIDI piano in Amadeus because i have already done that before the game releases while playtesting. sorry. </3

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Zee @zerojanitor.bsky.social · 1d

Sonic 3 Final Boss (aka Big Arms), Game Gear cover! youtu.be/PzIQ1tbZglA #furnacetracker #chiptune

Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles - Final Boss [8-bit Game Gear cover]

YouTube video by ZeroJanitor

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maud @peloriemate.net · 1d

btw when i say the devs were smoking that good and this game deserves to share the spotlight with the all time kusoge greats i mean it. this doesnt even mention that the final boss is a cutscene and you blow into the mic to run from battles

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

there is a particular reveal in episode 3 that i am really looking forward to writing. i think uminekoheads in particular will enjoy it. it is very "the more you know about the works this game is inspired my the more this reveal will troll you" and it's also just very based if i do say so myself

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

did i ever tell you that the one single time i played that game, i got the bad ending because i wasnt sure if i was supposed to kill marta or not so i kind of just half assed it and she died anyway, and then when i got the bad ending i was like ok whatever. and never bothered getting another one

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Leo 🐺🌕 Amadeus: A Riddle for Thee Dev 📹✨ Haruhi Suzumiya Stan @arcanaxix.bsky.social · 3d

the battler crying sprite but it's amadeus

screenshot of amadeus making the battler crying expression from Umineko placed on top of an Umineko background with the text "fuck you!!!!!!!"

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

you were literally the person i had in mind re audience member 3 btw

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

i have 3 target audiences in mind for amadeus:

- werewolf likers
- big brain VN likers
- people who are abnormal about music

and i am getting strong feedback from sources representing all 3 that i am nailing each respective appeal. let's fucking go.

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

Amadeus Episode 1 reviews are looking promising, courtesy @ageha-nacht.bsky.social

Text reads "My jaw dropped, my flabbers were ghasted, my screams were scrumpt, I was literally going, "LEO WHAT THE HELL, THAT WAS A MASTERPIECE" verbally and loudly. I was gobsmacked. I knew this was going to be good BUT OH MY GOD IT WAS BEYOND AMAZING."

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himefujodanshi @nanacka.bsky.social · 2d

gives her a bug

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Leo 🐺🌕 Amadeus: A Riddle for Thee Dev 📹✨ Haruhi Suzumiya Stan @arcanaxix.bsky.social · 2d

It's #portfolioday ! My strongest gamedev portfolio piece is.... this hack I made for Ghost Trick Phantom Detective that you shouldn't click through unless you've played the original game.

💃🔎🔥

GhostTrickNGPlus/Release at main · ArcanaXIX/GhostTrickNGPlus

A visual hack for Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective that lets you play as [SPOILERS REDACTED]. v1.0.0 out now! - ArcanaXIX/GhostTrickNGPlus

github.com

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Quandtuniverse @quandtuniverse.bsky.social · 3d

A number of people asked me about my VN's background art at a recent playtesting event, so I wrote a post about my process!

It's more of an overview than a tutorial but I hope it's helpful!

#gamedev #indiedev #VNdev #BeaconingALostCause

quandtuniverse.itch.io/beaconing/de...

Beaconing Background Breakdown

Hello friends! A little over a week ago, I brought Beaconing to Bring Your Own Game, a playtesting event at Glitch City LA . I got lots of great feedback on the most recent build and I’m almost read.....

quandtuniverse.itch.io

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Leo 🐺🌕 Amadeus: A Riddle for Thee Dev 📹✨ Haruhi Suzumiya Stan @arcanaxix.bsky.social · 2d

ok im glad i did all my vehement cry mixing sessions the last 2 days instead of today, as it is absolutely **shitting** rain and thus impossssssible to actually hear things properly fhdslkfjldsk