Truth Scrapper News

[p]Happy holidays everyone!!![/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]In case you just stumbled upon this devlog, I am Adrienne, also known as insertdisc5! I am the creator of timeloop RPG In Stars and Time, and now am working on my next game, memory visual novel Truth Scrapper. It’s gonna be a good one.[/p][p][/p][p]This month, I started writing Betz’s ending!!![/p][p][/p][p]So after all this time. I am finally Here. At the crossroads. Come with me. Let me explain.[/p][p][/p][p]Truth Scrapper will have three main endings. But until Day 6, the game is more or less the same. Some scenes are different, yes. But the broad strokes. Are the same.[/p][p]But, starting with Day 6. The stakes are higher. The story diverges. Will you pick Amour… Or Betz…!!! (or the True Ending which you won’t be able to get until you've gotten the other endings anyway)[/p][p]So, after working chronologically all this time, I finished Day 5. And had to start on Day 6. But one question remained… Which ending should I start writing first!?!?[/p][p]And like, I mostly know what happens in each. That stuff’s been planned since the start. And I am also a big fan of eating your veggies (the grossest thing) first, and to leave the best for last. And I’m SO EXCITED for Amour’s ending. I have Plans. So… Betz's ending comes first!!!!!!![/p][p][/p][p]Anyway all this to say that, metaphor aside, I’m actually having so much fun writing Betz’s end. This is where the post below comes into play fully and I’m so excited. Betz “Immediate F in therapy” Threadform[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]Amour… My love… We will see each other soon enough (in five to six business months)[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]I’ve also been fixing and adding a couple of details I didn’t have time to before! Like what’s in Sosotte’s pockets[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]And, finally, I drew the girls’ pokemon teams. For Funsies[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]That’s all byyyyye[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]DON'T FORGET TO WISHLIST THE GAME ALSO IT REALLY HELPS BECAUSE STEAM’S ALGORITHM IS MORE LIKELY TO SHOW OFF GAMES WITH A HIGH AMOUNT OF WISHLISTS THATS THE REASON WHY GAME DEVS ALWAYS ASK TO WISHLIST!!! OKAY BYE!!!![/p][p][/p][p]Links!
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[p]Truth Scrapper is taking part in the Choose Wisely Festival! You can watch the showcase below![/p][p][/p][previewyoutube][/previewyoutube][p][/p][p]Go wishlist Truth Scrapper, and while you're at it, go wishlist other amazing games with choices that will make you stop and stare at your screen thoughtfully! 😱🤔💭[/p][p][/p][h2]What is the Choose Wisely Festival?[/h2][p]Hosted by Studio Ephua, the Choose Wisely Festival is a global choice-based narrative games celebration, focusing on featuring the delightful craft of branching narratives!

This is one week free digital event where you can find a curated selection of discounted classics, up and coming demos, and new trailers releases.

The most important element to these games is that your choices matter.
You will find: [/p]

• [p]Over 390 games from over 250 top indie developers and publishers.[/p]
• [p]Dedicated streams and broadcasts.[/p]
• [p]Exclusive demos, announcements, trailer reveals, and content updates![/p]
• [p]A showcase with a stellar line-up of 50 handpicked narrative games, that you can watch right here on Steam.[/p]

[h3]📚 Go check it out here!!![/h3][p][/p]

[p][/p][p][/p][p]Hi.[/p][p][/p][p]In case you just stumbled upon this devlog, I am Adrienne, also known as insertdisc5! I am the creator of timeloop RPG In Stars and Time, and now am working on my next game, memory visual novel Truth Scrapper. It’s gonna be a good one.[/p][p]This month, I did a couple rewrites and did some arts and crafts.[/p][p]
[/p][p]I might've mentioned this before, but Truth Scrapper has been interesting in that I keep rewriting old stuff. I didn’t feel super satisfied with how the mystery was unfolding, so I did some rewrites to make it more clear, and foreshadow things both more and less, and changed the pacing… I feel more confident about it now, but rewrites. They Will Happen Again[/p][p]To help, I’ve been watching Jane Kalmes videos after a friend recommended them. Jane Kalmes is a writer of cozy mysteries and has many videos on how to write one! It was very useful, so if you’re writing a mystery, I recommend them![/p][p][/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]What else. Uuum. I might’ve also mentioned it, (I needed to make them irl. Yippee[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]Two urn-things. What could they be for…?[/p][p]I’ve been doing some various arts and crafts to make them, which has been fun. Art-wise, I feel like I’ve been challenging myself to try some new art forms for this game… Yippee…[/p][p]Speaking of arts and crafts, I also did this.[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]Photocards of my girls… I saw those photocard holders at Toronto’s Artist Alley and couldn’t resist.[/p][p][/p][p]And finally, since I implemented day 5, and finished my rewrites, I’m taking some producer-enforced rest. Which I immediately stopped to work on a Cool Project that is unrelated to Truth Scrapper!!!! LISTEN I LOV WORKING ON THINGS OK. anyway the Cool Project should be out before the year is over so you should follow my newsletter if you wanna see it[/p][p][/p][p](reads the previous devlog) i sure said I would show more Amour this devlog. ok. um. rhhnrl. (all the images are spoilers) uuurghhr. oh i know. have a sprite from back when i was trying to make the expressions/talking (you can tell because the dialogue is my placeholder "im fucken talking dude!!!!". you are, Amour. you are)[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]Ok thats all[/p][p][/p][p]DON'T FORGET TO WISHLIST THE GAME ALSO IT REALLY HELPS BECAUSE STEAM’S ALGORITHM IS MORE LIKELY TO SHOW OFF GAMES WITH A HIGH AMOUNT OF WISHLISTS THATS THE REASON WHY GAME DEVS ALWAYS ASK TO WISHLIST!!! OKAY BYE!!!![/p][p][/p][p]Links!
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[p][/p][p]Wow, it’s fall![/p][p][/p][p]In case you just stumbled upon this devlog, I am Adrienne, also known as insertdisc5! I am the creator of timeloop RPG In Stars and Time, and now am working on my next game, memory visual novel Truth Scrapper. It’s gonna be a good one.[/p][p][/p][p]This month, I drew things![/p][p][/p][p]This month was all about adding everything about day 5 to the game. I’ve done a post on implementation a couple months ago so I won’t bore you with the details![/p][p][/p][p]I also signed up for Peo Michie’s class on Intimacy and Characters for Comics and Illustrations, and it’s been very useful! Art-wise, working on Truth Scrapper has been challenging, since the characters have more realistic bodies than my previous game. AND since it’s a romance game, characters touch and interact with each other more often, so I wanted to get some advice from a pro![/p][p][/p][p]One of the exercises for this class was to draw characters’ heads from various angles (so you can make ‘em kiss later), so I decided to do that for the three main characters. And let me tell you. NOW I CAN DRAW BETZ’S HAIR ON MODEL FOR SURE[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]After doing that, I spent a couple days updating some illustrations and portraits from previous days, to make sure they looked accurate. Some are definitely an improvement and everyone will agree, and some are improvements only to me, but let me tell you, WHAT AN IMPROVEMENT IT IS. BETZ YOU FINALLY LOOK LIKE SOMETHING.[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]In other news, I’ve done some prep and finally created some business cards for the game, to remind people to wishlist when we show the demo during conventions. We did that for In Stars and Time as well, and since I’m very good at doing business cards (and adding some spot gloss), I usually ran out of cards fairly quickly! I’ll get them in a couple weeks, so I’m excited to see how they look in person…[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p](the back of the cards has the logo, and a QR code linking to the steam page)[/p][p][/p][p]Wow, you read all of that… Thank you. Here’s one of the illustrations from Day 5 as a reward. Amour what did you do.[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]This was the Betz show huh. I'll show some Amour stuff next time.[/p][p][/p][p]Alright, back to the implementation mines I go! See you next month.[/p][p][/p][p]DON'T FORGET TO WISHLIST THE GAME ALSO IT REALLY HELPS BECAUSE STEAM’S ALGORITHM IS MORE LIKELY TO SHOW OFF GAMES WITH A HIGH AMOUNT OF WISHLISTS THATS THE REASON WHY GAME DEVS ALWAYS ASK TO WISHLIST!!! OKAY BYE!!!![/p][p][/p][p]Links!
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[p][/p][p]Yippee Yahoo It’s October Soon!!![/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]First things first-- Truth Scrapper is part of the Fall in Love Visual Novel festival, full of other romance vns! Go check it out!!![/p][p][/p][p]In case you just stumbled upon this devlog, I am Adrienne, also known as insertdisc5! I am the creator of timeloop RPG In Stars and Time, and now am working on my next game, memory visual novel Truth Scrapper. It’s gonna be a good one.[/p][p]This month, I finished writing the script for Day 5![/p][p]
[/p][p]Uh that’s it I don’t have much to say about finishing the script. HOWEVER!!![/p][p]I also went to Montreal for a day on a whim. My mother was here for the month of September, and she’s never been to Montreal, so we decided to go there and visit for one (1) day. I live in Toronto, so this meant that we took a plane at 7.30am to go there, and went back for the 9.30pm plane to Toronto. Yes we were out of commission for a whole day after that. But it was super fun![/p][p]

“That sounds great but what does this have to do with Truth Scrapper, oh great one”[/p][p]Thank you for asking. So we went to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts because we love art. And let me tell you. I had the biggest burst of inspiration ever.[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]In my previous game, In Stars and Time, the magical system was called “Craft”, and was a system based on Rock Paper Scissors (makes sense in context I promise). It’s used in battle, but, while I didn’t mention it much in the game itself, Craft had an everyday use as well– you can make items with magical powers, too! I really liked the idea of “creating magical objects”, but since it wasn’t the focus of the game, I left it vague overall.[/p][p][/p][p]But now I’m making Truth Scrapper, you see. So, following ISAT, Truth Scrapper has a “magical system”, where the objects you craft have a chance to become Saturated Items– items with magical powers. Sosotte’s book, which allows her to record her memories, is a Saturated Item, for example. This “creating magical items” is very important to the game. WHICH MEANS THIS TIME I CAN DEVELOP MY IDEA!!![/p][p][/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]Except that until now, Truth Scrapper had SOME Saturated Items, mostly the ones the characters wear, and… That was it. The items were talked about and explained, but there wasn’t much about the history of Saturated Items. How they’re made. How they changed based on cultures. I had other things in mind for the story, and those questions kind of fell to the side.[/p][p][/p][p]But then I went to the museum, you see. And my god I love art. And I got The Best Idea on how to make Saturated Items’ history and everything more important. And this is why you should always go to the museum kids[/p][p][/p][p]So all this to say, I need to do some rewrites on the previous days, and add one (1) new scene per day! Producer Dora I know we have a meeting in a couple hours and you haven’t heard about my Cool New Idea. I know your heart rate tripled reading this. DON’T WORRY I PROMISE IT WILL ONLY TAKE ME A WEEK OR TWO TO ADD ALL THIS THE SCHEDULE IS OKAY AND GOOD AND THE GAME WILL BE 100% BETTER[/p][p][/p][p]Anyway the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is a very good museum. Can recommend. [/p][p][/p][p]Oh and before I forget, I made a little comic this month too. [/p][p]
[/p][p]POV: the girls see you walking around and they think your shoes don't match with your outfit

[/p][p]DON'T FORGET TO WISHLIST THE GAME ALSO IT REALLY HELPS BECAUSE STEAM’S ALGORITHM IS MORE LIKELY TO SHOW OFF GAMES WITH A HIGH AMOUNT OF WISHLISTS THATS THE REASON WHY GAME DEVS ALWAYS ASK TO WISHLIST!!! OKAY BYE!!!![/p][p][/p][p]Links!
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