What We'd Require Of Association Members:

It's reinforce Nidhogg hours y'all the difference is literally 78 points, which is like nothing, especially considering how many people are on Team Flynn.

(No hate against kimi btw but fufjhfhfj)

We have something;;

Special coming sometime tomorrow;;

In my time zone (EST);;

Of the jam variety;;

Stay tuned for more info;;

Or just check the tags for it tomorrow that works too-

Oh my god I saw this ad at like 3AM a few weeks ago and I thought I imagined it because I couldn't find anything about it anywhere

this ad though

The Adventures of Unamused Boy part 8

He return

By the way in case anyone was wondering I do in fact have a direction for this stuff it's just taking a little bit because of SC's character limit in the captions.

Right so I was checking out the Nikki's Info update and decided to check out the "What's New" stuff just for fun

And I saw something interesting.

(sorry for the quality I had it open on my laptop)

Anyway, three of these suits stand out to me, as they weren't previously announced. After a few second of staring at their parts, I recognized them from "future events" videos I'd watched in the past.

But I wanted to check and make sure I had my facts straight, so I went into the game to check and see if the suits had been added to the gallery, and lo and behold, I find them.

So what does this mean? Probably that our dev team put the files in too early on accident. But it also means we're getting a stamina event.

Yep, this is a stamina event. And from what I remember it's either relatively cheap or basically free as well. I have no idea when we're getting it, and it makes me a bit concerned for the price of our next hell, but this is still cool, especially considering how long many people have wanted this event for.

Anyway, I'm excited and I was super surprised (and pleased) to find this, and I felt like sharing.

Hello! Are y'all still planning on doing a hetagame jam soon? If so, do you have any more information about it?

Oh hi! i wasn't expecting anything about that on here considering this blog is mostly love nikki these days, lol. A welcome surprise indeed!

So the short answer is yes, we're still planning on doing it, and if all goes well we'll be getting things up and running in the near future.

The long answer is that we had originally intended for the jam to begin in December. But that would have the sign ups going on right now. Which, obviously isn't happening. We ran into a few issues and couldn't get everything done on time for our initial slot we'd hoped for. So we pushed everything back some to give us more time to prepare. It's just as well tbh since December is turning out to be a horribly busy month this year for us.

We have the server done, the awards, gimmick, and rules are all decided. Mostly all we need is to get the awards drawn and get a certain video put together and edited. We're waiting on everyone to record their lines on that front. (Including me, oops pff.) So no matter what, this jam WILL happen at some point. We've done too much work to just drop it now, lol. We're very much hoping that the second time slot will work out, though.

As far as details of the jam go, I hesitate to talk about too much, just in case something happens and it needs to get pushed back again for whatever reasons or issues for anyone involved. As well as that, we do want many aspects of this jam to remain surprises, so the most I'd feel comfortable talking about right now are these things;

-We're intending for this jam to be a six week jam. Two months seemed a bit too much last time, but we didn't wanna just throw everyone into a single month jam after such a drought of community events. Would probably be a bad idea.

-You'll be able to know the gimmick and theme of the jam straight away. Everything will be available to you from the jam journal. No waiting until a specific day for a piece of information this time around.

-We're going to be doing much the same thing as our last jam as far as progress goes, where we made videos once a week of us blindly reacting to progress screenshots and such. But this time we're giving me a bit more time to edit the videos together, since last time I pushed to record, edit, and upload all on Saturday, which proved damaging to both my physical and mental health since I'd be at it for hours and sometimes stay up later than was probably healthy at the time. This time around it'd be more like a "record on Friday and have it up by Sunday at the latest" sort of deal.

-Just like last time, this jam isn't exclusive to RPG Maker devs. If you can make some kind of game that you can upload for download or at least provide a link to play, you can participate. And we hope that you'll consider it! The more participants the more fun it'll be!

-And lastly, if all goes according to plan this time around, you should be hearing something about it in late December. I really hope we can get this done for our second choice in time slots, but just in case we don't I'm very sorry in advance. We're trying our hardest to get this done as quickly as possible, but things have been coming up a lot recently.

But anyway, thanks so much for the interest in our jam! I didn't realize until just now that we hadn't mentioned it like, at all in ages. Reminds me I should update our DA group for this. Anyway whenever there's any more news about the jam I'll try to remember to put it here as well as on the DA, since that was one of my original reasons for making this tumblr, lol. To blog about hetagame stuff.

Also uhhh if anyone has any specific questions you can ask if you like. I might have to refuse to answer depending on what ya ask considering some things we want to be surprises for the announcement day, but I am open to questions n' stuff, if anyone who potentially sees this has any. ^^

Haven't posted in awhile so have a LN shitpost I borrowed @sciencetookmydoubts for

Hmmmmm what if I were to start posting hetagame progress in here again like I did once 800 years ago

Haha just kidding.....

.....unless...?

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Gamedev progress update from Cune and I! A text box mockup and a map WIP :D

So I feel like it should go without saying but just in case, the mockup is intentionally shitty and no we did not keep a random ass sand square we just thought it was funny.

Okay so I am really disappointed with how the dawn front event went down. I am not „horny“ for shade and i find it dumb that salty players reduce us to that. You’re freaking ace and I’m on the spectrum too. We’re not salting about people for picking their queen kimi either jeez. Let people allow to pick characters they want, its not hard.

Ya know what me too

((RANT INCOMING BOIS))

Like I'm sure there are some people who picked Flynn bc "he's hot" to them-and don't get me wrong that's perfectly fine-but just assuming that's the only reason anyone would ever pick said character is just honestly kind of rude to everyone who chose him. As if he doesn't have his own story, personality, motivations, etc. that might make him an appealing choice to players. No he's just an edgy uwu animu boi fangirl bait design right?

Thing is we're only having this discussion because we won. If the majority of night order players flocked to Shade but the dawn wings ended up winning no one would give two shits about who chose Flynn or why. Lemme tell y'all something. I chose Flynn because as an aspiring author I found all of the good guys boring and stealth has always been my shit. Yes all of them. Louie is barely a character as of right now, Orlando is fine but he's so typical morally just man in a suit. Kimi is overrated imo and don't even get me started on Bai Yongxi. I know we have a dreamweaver for this guy but I still feel like I've never met him before. So then, what about the night order? We barely know Reid and the guy he teamed up with so that choice was out for me, and Nidhogg's abrasive personality just wasn't doin it for me personally.

Who does that leave? Flynn. Shade. The secret weapon. The assassin with two names.

Ever since I was young I've always found sharpshooters, assassins, ninjas-basically anyone who could outsmart their opponent with not only tactics but agility and speed-cool. I'm a small girl and I was never very strong, so that kind of thing was the kind of stuff I idolized-and part of what lead me to develop my aesthetic the way I did. THAT's why I picked Flynn. It was my personal opinion and preference.

Do I expect anyone to know that? Of course not. Only my close friends know about my childhood. However, I'm not the only person who picks characters based on things other than "how hot I find them," clearly. I'll admit, Flynn's character design is aesthetically pleasing to an edgelord like myself. But if that was the only reason, I'd just go with anyone who remotely resembled that sort of style.

Not to mention the psychological aspects of it all. Morally grey characters are always more interesting from a psychological standpoint, as they present as more human-more relatable to the average person.

I'm getting a little bit off topic but my point is that there's more than one reason Shade won the war. Something else I need to mention is the pre-war salt.

All over the facebook, amino, reddit, etc. before we even got the event implemented were people salting about losing last time and making passive aggressive comments about how they'd lose to " Shade's thirst army" again. Now I had already made up my mind to choose him again, but think for a second about how a new player would feel seeing all that. Do you really think new players would want to join a team full of passive aggressive people who can't let the fact that their fave lost essentially a fictional popularity contest go after a full year? Because I sure as hell wouldn't. That's an extremely unwelcoming environment right there.

So what do I have left to cover? The morality speeches? Yeahh.....

So listen. I saw this mostly on the facebook, but I'll mention it here.

Fiction and real life are two separate things. People are allowed to like problematic charas so long as they understand that said chara is in fact problematic. Supporting a character who's done morally wrong things does not mean said person supports said morally wrong things. If you sit there and try to guilt trip people who just wanted to pick their favorite character in a fictional event that effects nothing ever because they like a specific character and tell them that means they support murder or whatever, I'm sorry but you need to go back to elementary school or something because that's not how anything has worked in the history of things working.

Now with all this said I want to stress that not everyone is like this of course. There are people who remained silent. There are people who know how to make jokes about their loss, and I thank those of you who have done so-you're bridging the gap, my friends. Of course I don't believe everyone is like this. But the sheer amount of people degrading others and belittling them because of a character preference both pre and post event is astounding.

In the end this whole event was basically just a popularity contest. And you know what I see? I see people who can't handle that not everyone shared their character preferences. I see people who don't understand that just because someone favors one character over another doesn't mean they automatically hate the other character. I see people who are so petty that they'll go out of their way to make excuses as to why they lost. Yeah, it was a population imbalance. But you know what? That's just how it happened. If the population imbalance had favored Kimi, or Orlando, or Bai, or Louie, would we be seeing this level of garbage? No. This event effects nothing. Not the story, not real life, nothing.

But you know what does? Unbearable amounts of salty people pointing fingers and yelling "thirst" to the point where I've started to wonder why I got involved in this godforsaken community in the first place. Let people enjoy their dressup game, ya watery salt cubes. You'll get another chance next time around, and I'm just saying-maybe you'd do better if you focused a bit less on yelling about how it's other people's fault you lost. Yea, losing sucks. But in order for there to be a winner, someone has to lose. That's how competitions work.

I feel like I had more points but I'm just so done with this garbage. Whatever. Point is let people like the characters they like instead of getting salty that everyone doesn't worship Kimi as much as you do. It's not that deep.

I'm done here. This stupid. Sorry to anyone who isn't contributing to this who had to see this. I appreciate you. So much. Oh and by the way, I have nothing against Kimi stans, so long as y'all don't do this kinda shit. Everyone has the right to have whatever character be their favorite no matter which one it is.