Hey there!
For those not aware, I run a show called PauseCast, and just recently we did our 36th episode and we also did a special interview with @ponett about creating Super Lesbian Animal RPG, fan works as first drafts, making new work from fan work, and more. The full interview is 80 minutes long, and is available right now in early access for Patrons of the show! The full interview is available for Patrons who support the show with $1 or more a month. It’s a really fascinating discussion, and we’d love for you to listen.
We’ve released a clip of the interview in our 36th episode for everyone though! It’s available to listen to o’er here, as well as in a few other places:
And the show can be reached in a couple other places:
Please go check out this episode! It’s filled with great discussion about loneliness as essential to certain games, 90s anime, and a breakdown of frustrations with Kingdom Hearts.
hey everyone! i did a beefy interview with jessica here on Super Lesbian Animal RPG and its origins, and a solid 20 minutes of it covering most of the main questions can be listened to here starting at 1:15:22 in the podcast, with the rest thing being exclusive to the show’s patrons for now. give it a listen! it was a really interesting talk
Hi! Hello!! Now that I’ve got your attention with some screenshots:
I just posted almost 9 whole minutes of Super Lesbian Animal RPG gameplay footage for my Patreon supporters to see early! Some of this is an expanded look at scenes that were in the trailer, and some of this is brand new. (Well, it’s less new if you’ve been reading my Patreon updates. But still!)
Also it’s the end of the month, which means I believe this is your last chance to back my Patreon before my next payday, if you were thinking about doing that. Again, I’ve said this a lot, but I’m eternally grateful for the financial support!
in my ongoing efforts to make the parts of the game that will be in the eventual demo more polished, i’ve been spicing up Super Lesbian Animal RPG’s Basement Dungeon. i realized that the floor, being all magic and whatnot, would make a nice light source. so i used that as an excuse to make everything more pink and purple
here are some limited edition Super Lesbian Animal RPG valentines to give to that special someone tomorrow. or not. actually yeah don’t
I’ve been putting off finishing this, but anyway! I wanted to draw a nice new piece of promotional art of Super Lesbian Animal RPG’s Melody to replace the old stuff
Along with it, I figured I’d do a little expression sheet of sorts for Melody–not for use in the game, necessarily, but mainly to practice drawing her before I make that whole ten page comic about her. And also partially because pretty much all the art I’ve put out of Mel has her smiling and variety is fun
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SLARPG now has a presskit on Indie DB, because that’s a useful thing to have! It still feels kinda weird to have to sell my game via bullet points, but it’s good to have some basic facts, a trailer, and some screenshots all in one place
testing out this new diamond pattern on the text boxes in SLARPG. i think i like it. the character names in the dialogue boxes were really only added for the sake of showing everyone’s names in the trailer, but i think i might keep them–it’ll be kind of tedious to go back and add names to every text box, but it looks better that way, and it helps people learn all the characters’ names
also, if you didn’t see the paladin headquarters in the game’s first trailer, well, here’s that!
Here’s another thing that showed up briefly in Super Lesbian Animal RPG’s first trailer: Greenridge’s Guardian Tower! This is where Faith and the Paladins work
This building is easily is the single largest piece of pixel art I’ve made to date. It’s so huge that it needed its own tile sheet, and I needed to stitch two screenshots together to show the whole thing
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here’s one of the new areas i worked hardest on leading up to super lesbian animal rpg’s first trailer: the mysterious, crumbling sanctuary in the forest where the party finds noel
it’s very pink
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Greenridge is probably the most important location in Super Lesbian Animal RPG, so it needs to make a strong first impression. But it was also the first environment I started revising graphics for in 2015, so it was overdue for some touching up
Above is the first screenshot I posted of the game in December 2015, and below is how that same shot looks as of January 2017. In particular, the old flat shadows beneath objects have been replaced with a nice soft, grassy texture (this is most noticable beneath the trees), and the cliffs (which were previously just recycled cave wall tiles) are now all zig zaggy to give them more depth. I think it’s looking quite nice now!
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it’s that time again! here’s a theme for the main cast’s hometown: Greenridge.
this track is actually not an original composition of mine, but rather a re-imagination of the town theme from SLHRPG, “Dew on Ponett,” composed by Thom Wall (@sidewalkwitch)!
Thom’s original theme is super fun and peppy, which suited SLHRPG’s silliness. however, @ponett was looking for something a little more laid back this time around—so i was given the task of remaking this tune. the result is an arrangement that’s a little lighter and “homey” sounding. it ended up sounding quite a bit different, but i did my best to maintain the spirit of the original song’s melody and overall progression.
i hope you enjoy this track! in the coming weeks i will be posting more themes for various settings in the game. stay tuned <3
here’s a very important new version of an old song for the game courtesy of bee (and thom)!! honestly being able to walk around greenridge with the new town theme playing makes it feel like the game is really starting to come together
Hey everyone! Here’s the inaugural SLARPG Audio Devlog, as promised on Patreon. It’s in video form just for the sake of having images of what we’re talking about on-screen for reference, but it’s more of a podcast type thing. Timestamps for individual points of discussion are listed in the video’s description on YouTube
In this chunky first installment, Anthony and I go in-depth discussing NPCs! Specifically, the paladins, Mona the librarian, Jodie’s girlfriend (and Greenridge’s town guardian) Faith, and the mysterious nonbinary plant person Noel. We go into our inspirations, some scrapped ideas, how the characters’ personalities informed their looks, and more. Also, Anthony asks questions like “what if Mario had plate leggings?”
This first one is public, just so people have an idea of what this reward is like, but future audio devlogs will be released much further in advance for $5 and above patrons. Probably at least two weeks, or longer if we’re talking about Secret Stuff, just so patrons can get a sneak peek at what they’re helping fund
Hope y'all enjoy it!
different color schemes i tried out for melody and allison’s casual outfits in super lesbian animal rpg’s first trailer
the game opens with a scene set before melody has become a paladin, and therefore before she would have her Iconic™ healer outfit. so i thought it would be fun to give her a casual outfit just for that scene! it needed to be different from her normal color scheme because becoming a paladin is a big change for melody, and giving her a new palette when it happens is a good way to convey that visually. so i tried a bunch of different options. the one with the star above it is the final design i went with, which i chose because it reminded me of neapolitan ice cream, and that’s like, so cute? oh my god?
allison gets a different outfit in this scene too, because why not
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one of many redesigned enemies in super lesbian animal rpg: the misty specter! as seen in the game’s first trailer
the original misty specter (seen on the left) was basically designed on a whim way back in 2013 because i felt like drawing a simple cartoon ghost girl. so i took the basics of the concept and drastically reworked her to bring her up to the game’s new level of polish. she’s much better now, and a little creepier looking, which actually probably just makes her cuter. also i guess she’s an elf now
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