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A channel to workshop Birbteef's Taco dating sim!

Hell yeah

tacohen

And we're open for business!

tacoparty

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Wahoo

brrrpito

woo!

now waht haha

As I work on stuff I'll post it and we can workshop it I suppose

Unless you just wanna spitball some ideas. I have 20 practice days I need to fill and only a handful of sketches for them

17:38

Also all the interactions with the teams besides the dale

17:41

Basically the game is 40 days long. Every other day is either a game day or a practice day. Every other game day is either away or home. On practice days, there is a team skit you interact with, on home game days, there is an individual you interact with, and on away games there is an away team you interact with

17:43

Meaning day 1- practice and introduction-tutorials Day 2- home game w/ dale and interaction w/ lalengua-tutorials Day 3- practice and team interaction- you get your jersey Day 4- away game- party with the dale

17:45

There’s a really dumb mechanic I had to make where you touch blaseballs to gain a variable number that then will coincide with a character number so you can unlock the cutscenes at the right place and it’s;;;; frustrating

17:47

Like let’s say you get mcdowells happiness to 6 but his first cutscene can’t take place till day 7 I forced the game to pick up an extra variable each day so it won’t trigger until “McDHap>7,blaseball=7) so it has to take place on the 7th day

17:48

Which I guess if you know coding that probably sounds very easy and straightforward s cuz I know that’s what code ppl do but I don’t know any of that stuff and it took me;;;;; a long time

17:49

Basically what I’m saying is I’m laying a lot of framework and things won’t get SUPER rolling until I kind of finish that.

17:51

Right now I’m desperate trying to figure out if I can somehow make a rhythm game in this because I want so badly to make qais dogwalker DJ and you have to prove your cool and “dance” in the Glundam

WOWWWW

I am 99% great ideas and 1% implementation

oh daily reminder a week in blaseball is 9 days

Well a week in my game is 4 days

18:04

(it's not)

18:05

What does 9 days have to do with it though?

18:09

If it's because I picked 7 that's just an arbitrary number the actual first cutscene with McD would happen at 5 hap which you can only get on a game day so at minimum the first scene with him would happen at?? Day 10

tacolook

I don't think I can make a rhythm games happen in this engine :( it may just have to be a text thing

this is far more grand than i imagined!

You’ll just need a spin-off game

18:16

Taco dating sim, the franchise

Well! Once I get everything done it won't actually take that long is the thing

18:17

The time consuming part is making the individual assets and the different emotions

18:17

The intro day took me 6 hours to draw but maybe only 25 minutes to write and code

18:18

But with each new asset I make that's one more I can use for future scenes, meaning the less I have to make

18:19

Ah, let me make a date sim for each division

18:19

XD

x.x

I will not

im glad that you value your sanity birb

Naahhh I'm dumb as hell that's why I'm doing this in the first place

18:20

I'm stupid and you can NOT stop me

opens stupid door be my guest!

Anyway! /Are/ there any wanted suggestions for the practice days? That's basically the time where the team just hangs out and you get to have a fun interaction

--taking pepito for a walk with (player) --car wash day with vito --taco truck does meals on wheels --mandatory cleaning up the dugout duty --shopping with bmase

Oooo I love all of these

19:18

Pepito bath is the first McDowell checkpoint, but I think it would be fun if someone else maybe had to walk her at some point if McD is busy?

upnut

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19:18

Rope You Ballboy into helping them because it is a task

19:19

I feel like that would be a good yummy scene for a practice

you can do so much with pep. make her a catalyst for BS happening haha

pepito more like plot device /j

upnut

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brrrpito

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--find the hidden things pep buried in the outfield

Omg

--pepito gets on twitter in the main office but everyone gets locked out and its a race to bring down the account before she does damage

Oh my god lolo

brrrpito

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19:20

Your mind

it's very pepito centric

Omg......destroy the tacos twitter....

i also have two dogs and i feel like this is my real life

Is peanut bong a datable character in this?

before she tweets about shrimp or something

No

I just think you should play out all of frogs YouTube videos

upnut

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tacopleadhearts

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NaN can show you around other cities they played in? Or tell you abt different LA dimensions

upnut

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also my list of desires boils down to 'kiss basil so sweetly and softly' but adding a whole new route is a lotta work and i wouldnt Actually ask that of you. if i really need to ill dust off my old VN software myself

tacohen

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Bother dr garbage for a whole day

Maybe you can get a kiss on the hand if you max his friendship,

19:22

I wanna do a whole thing with NaN. I love;;; them

19:23

Not a date thing. You Ballboy will not date NaN.

19:23

But friends? Absolutely

19:24

Maybe slip around some of the other LAs with them

19:24

Visit cursed horse world

tacolook

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~~secret route human sexton~~

Yummy tries to teach you how to make tacos for the taco truck but yummy is also incredibly bad at making tacos for the taco truck

tacocatpleadhearts

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oh your player character is a ballboy in this game?

Yes! You are You Ballboy, tacos new ball boy

is boy gender neutral?

you prob dont but if you ever need Another ballboy ill make u sprite(s) of my self insert one

Despite the word boy, You is gender neutral and uses they/them

three_thumbs_up

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Nominative determinism strikes again

its gender neutral when referring to all of the tacos current ballboys so id say yeah

19:27

i adore You Ballboy already

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19:28

That's the only intro given to the player

beautiful

YOU BALLBOIIII

frog but gay (he/they) 💚💜🌮

~~secret route human sexton~~

I thought very hard about it when I was first starting this and I eventually had to say no but I need you to understand I did think about it for more than 10 seconds

19:33

What I wanted to do was actually make a system where you could choose If you wanted like, the people versions of the characters or the weird messed up animalistic versions, but frankly that's just too hard to do

19:34

99% ideas, 1% implementation

19:34

God if I knew how to code or had a computer I'd be a menace

same

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Back in the day there was a fantastic Yuri on Ice fic that was structured like a forum for a (fake) dating sim where the secret route was that you had to jump through all these hoops to get Yuuri and Victor together. Because I am, at heart, a useless shipper, I’ve been thinking about that a lot since you announced this project tacolol

tacolol

Oh same :') same

19:40

I love weird fan content so much and I've always been the one making overly complicated AUs and projects

19:42

I just! I love to see it

19:43

Especially when it has almost nothing at all to do with the source material and you can look at the final project and just go "dang, they did that huh?"

Like the good omens comic? :>

Yeah! I'll finish it at some point lmaooo

19:52

I have it drafted I just gotta. You know. Do it.

19:53

Good news about the dating sim is that this should not take me a year and a half to make unlike the good omens comic which has taken a year and a half and is still not done

okay wait one thing I’ve been wondering is like,,, once it’s out how would we play it

You have to download the app and then download the game from Google docs

19:56

I can let you preview it right now actually

19:57

I have the first day done and the first game against the Dale.

19:57

Nothing is FINISHED. I want there to be more poses and the dialogue needs some work. Rivers Clembons only has one asset lmao

19:58

Eventually for all the expressions I want to have the characters doing a slightly different pose but at the moment they just change their face

I’m not doing anything rn but what’s the app I just wanna look

Kocho

20:00

The game is here https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EELwZ8XTtK6l41IJH256s_GkMlJzjV4_/view?usp=drivesdk

taco-tuesday.kocho

ohh I see

You have to download the game then upload it to the app

20:00

When I actually publish it, it should just be on the app itself I believe

(which, anyone can do the preview actually. I'd appreciate any feedback on what I have so far. I think there are one or two typos because my ipad autocorrects things.)

Not ominous at all!

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tacolol

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20:55

I love that rat is just a rat in a jersey

20:56

This is great though, they all have so much personality

You will have to interact with umpires

21:01

Ball boys do

21:01

Also!! I'm glad you liked rat XD

It’s fine! I’m sure it’s fine

I'm not sure how the umpire thing is going to work but it IS going to be a stat check to make sure you've been doing the right thing

21:08

It'll be hard to fail tho

21:08

What I'm saying is yes You can get blown up I just don't know how yet (edited)

tacolol

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brrrpito

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I guess it’s fitting that you can die in the blaseball dating sim

Of COURSE You can

I really love the "haha third base and all"

same

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I have tomorrow off! I'm hoping to get the dale away game done and maybe a practice day as well?

17:51

Also I think I figured out how I'm going to decide if I want the umpire to kill You (edited)

17:51

I'll make the practice day hangouts an option but if You skips 5 in a row it's over (edited)

17:58

Or maybe just 5? I'm not sure how to set a variable like "consecutive" so it may just be once the 5th friend event is skipped an umpire is gonna blast You to the moon next game

What’s your benefit for not going to practice?

There isn't one

18:15

So there's no reason to skip it

Fair enough! Just Bad End for not hanging out with your cool friends

Yeah

18:17

I think that's the only bad end the game will have tbh

18:17

Theres not going to be any low friendship ends I think that's mean :(

I never quite saw the point of them for visual novels

18:18

I don’t wanna get punished for not hanging out with someone well enough : (

Yeah :(

i always kinda figured it was kinda like. how so many games just let you be mean to people in em period

Just don’t be mean to my cool friends : (

I understand that but I NEVER pick those options:( I don't wanna be mean even in video games

But yeah fair enough

RIV me too busy being cool with my buds to practice the blasé ball and so I was killed by an angry entity with eyes while standing at first base

XD

If anyone has any pictures of around LA they wouldn’t mind me editing that would be super cool. I probably shouldn’t be grabbing random photos from google

Lemme see if I have any good ones

13:52

Tbh most of the pictures I take around la are of pigeons so I might not be able to help

That's fair!

13:53

Maybe a couple of pigeon pictures would be cool actually. I'm sure I could use them

13:53

What I need are pics of buildings tho so I can turn them into backgrounds

13:53

Lol what if I just took pictures of Tampa and let people believe it's LA (edited)

13:54

I don't think I should do that Tampa is pretty distinct. But I may have to if worse comes to worse

i'll take a look and see what i got on my phone Birb

this is like the one non pigeon building photo I have

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Omg

Ong that's perfect

Is there an uncropped version of this picture or is this it

14:05

You go on a date with yummy to babo taco and make a tlik tlok in the bathroom

This is the whole thing

Ok!

This is like they're across the street about to go inside

Took this one at the LA arboretum, it kinda looks like a building

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Verve Coffee in DTLA

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14:27

LACMA (edited)

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@.@ feather 💙 see cactus fren

14:29

LACMA (better quality)

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14:29

Silverlake neighborhood

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14:30

Somewhere in LA can't remember

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14:30

Santa Monica

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oh I can do this give me an evrning

Please! Yes

14:31

The more the merrierr

moumtams outside LA

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14:34

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birb this would be a good resource!

Oooo

14:35

Oh perfect omg

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15:51

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15:51

Ponytail NaN yes or no

yes!

yesss

xXx⚡birbteef⚡xXx

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lol i tried to zoom in but because its transparent on dark discord it just looks like an empty uniform

XD

16:03

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16:05

I think I’m gonna go with the ponytail

xXx⚡birbteef⚡xXx pinned a message to this channel. 17-Jun-21 04:05 PM

ponytail feels great

ponytail on one shoulder, rat mason on the other

NaN

tacoplead

the ponytail is VERY cute

what if his pony had the breaking-up effect?! tacolook

tacolook

He can have a shoulder rat

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16:16

I'm gonna do some stuff with the breaking up for his emotion assets

upnut

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Ponytail NaN + the head wispies mean they have a mullet hehe

16:34

This is observation only i think that mullets are redacted

I think a mullet can be cute and I'm glad NaN has one

16:37

Oh also I don’t know that I officially showed what I’m making the uniforms look like?

16:37

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16:38

The away uniforms will only be used once every 4 days lmao

If only real blaseball worked that way...

I realize they would probably have practice uniforms too but I……don’t wanna

16:40

Lol right if only you could assure what days were home and away :’)

Ohhh I love the away uniforms

xXx⚡birbteef⚡xXx

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yummy so high lmao

tacolol

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Good on yummy for colour coordinating her piercings with the uniforms, this is the dedication to fashion I like to see

AWWWWW

birb i love your yummy so much

Xe's obnoxious and I cannot wait to start her route

The fact I can add variables but not if/then statements is driving me crazy

xXx⚡birbteef⚡xXx

The fact I can add variables but not if/then statements is driving me crazy

Uhhhhh what’s the point of the variables if you can’t do logic based on them?

I want it to be if x=2 then "whatever" happens but if x>2 then "something else"

19:19

It just makes different paths

19:20

Like I can't make it bounce back and forth it always has to lead somewhere else

Yikes that sounds annoying

Meaning, I can't take it from page A to B to C then back to A I just have to remake A

19:23

This is what I get for trying to make this in something that was clearly just made for other stuff tacopensive

tacopensive

I am GOING TO MAKE IT WORK THOUGH (edited)

19:23

There WILL be a functional game when I am done

Oh my god I made it work

20:17

It took 2 hours but you can finally choose if you're gonna go hang out or not and it actually takes you to the place or home

20:17

At least I know how to do it so I can.....repeat this for every other practice day oTL

godspeed birb you’re doing important work

If nothing else with the final addition of sextons alt costume asset I believe I have all of his assets made

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tacoluv

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20:45

I have to figure out what alt clothes I wanna put everyone else in

20:46

I wanna put McD in the funk machine shirt/fish hat fit

20:46

And the rest I have no idea

20:53

I also have to figure out NaNs away outfit tacopensive

tacopensive

xXx⚡birbteef⚡xXx

There WILL be a functional game when I am done

(hey birb, dont use that word outside of spoiler tags with content warnings please and thank you)

Oop (edited)

xXx⚡birbteef⚡xXx

I also have to figure out NaNs away outfit tacopensive

tacopensive

i feel like casual NaN would rock a tank and cargo shorts

Ooooo

20:59

Actually I love that

21:00

I need casual outfits for all of them

ooh ooh board shorts with fun patterns maybe. and id love to see em in a skort

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21:02

id be honoured to help you put together Fits for basil also

Yeah!

21:02

They all only need one alt outfit

21:03

I'm not;;; gonna do too much

21:03

Else I WILL do too much

oh yes very valid

I feel like NaN's tank should say something funny

21:11

What's a very 18 year old demi-boy thing to wear on a shirt?? Would NaN like COD?

21:11

Halo?

21:12

Hlalo...

brrrpito

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uhh maybe this is projecting a lil but. minecraft? theyre the right age to have caught the boom that started a year or 2 ago

21:13

if they were a real 18 y/o anyways

21:14

how bad can we make minecraft look with Ls

mlinecraft?

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mlinecrlaft

MLINECRAFT….

oh thats beautiful

I don't know enough about Minecraft to make a funny shirt

21:21

I think hlalo is funny as a word but....

21:21

I think Minecraft needs more stuff??

more stuff? im not quite sure what u mean

Like uhhh idk what the Minecraft logo looks like but I do know what a creeper is

oh something like this maybe :o

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Yes

21:24

Yes that's perfect

minecraft has a funny font and also their logos just dirt sometimes. that shirt is perfect though

I hate this little off brand creeper so much XD

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21:35

I think I’m gonna go with hlalo

OH MY GOD THATS PERFECT

oh god im in love

21:36

the little face....

the face goes -o-

xXx⚡birbteef⚡xXx

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LOOK!!!! i love it

oh that’s fantastic

xXx⚡birbteef⚡xXx

I hate this little off brand creeper so much XD

from the thumbnail I thought it was a guy with a funky moustache

It can be

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19:33

Worldwide field is lit tbh

19:34

I! Cannot wait to actually use this Gif in the game

19:34

I just keep thinking about how their roof explodes with fire every time someone hits a homer or something that’s so sick

oh thats beautiful

Right now I’m writing a scene where you’re having dinner with sexton and basil and it’s just!

19:45

Man these two characters are difficult to get to interact together tbh

19:46

Like some characters just mesh really well. Like basil and rat, or sexton and yummy, but this sure doesn’t

tacopensive

godspeed my friend

I’m wondering if I should change it to someone else :/ but alsoooo I wanna have basil there

19:47

I’ll figure it out

19:53

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19:53

Also here’s babo taco backgrounded

BABO TACO

You go have dinner at babo taco with sexton and basil and confront the reality that yes they actually do eat tacos all the time tacopensive

tacopensive

its in the team contract /j (... unless?)

DO YOU NEED HELP WITH SEXTON AND BASIL

Yes

20:14

They're having dinner with you to get to know you

20:14

What would they talk about

taco

Sexton and basil get along by basil saying something kinda teasing, sexton taking it earnestly, and then basil feeling bad and having to explain the joke. This continues until finally basil realizes sexton is messing with him and proceeds to give some stupid comback about his shirts

20:14

Sorry phone call

20:21

Okay I'm back lol

20:22

I imagine basil communicates mainly with sarcasm and metaphors

20:22

And sexton is a dumbass so sometimes they argue

20:22

But then sexton gets kinda sly about it and basil ends up realizing he's been played

20:22

And tries to be all cool about it

20:22

But gives a crappy comback like 'yeah well....your shirt is gray!'

20:23

And sexton is like 'wow I'm shook' making fun of basil saying something similar earlier

20:24

Are you going to include the sexton not knowing what a gay is in there

Uhhh maybe?

Basil: you are the worst gay Sexton: basil I'm a horse Basil: I'm????

That's perfect

Idk they're like very different people who respond to stress differently and communicate differently but I feel like they've known each other for so long they kinda have that sibling vibe

20:33

They mesh in a weird way that's built less on their personalities and more on their similar situations and proximity over time. Like siblings lol

I love that

20:35

Anyway here’s basil’s alt outfit

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WOAH

20:35

HELLO HANDSOME

OMG BABE

My lovely,,,,,,

HELLO

Hmm. Well. They look like a lesbian couple I'm laughing

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Omg they are the real lesbians of blaseball

20:42

It does look like basils got chest lol I love it

I actually love this?? I'm not changing it (edited)

Yes please keep it

how could you change jt? we'd need to get her on the team first

20:42

ack you already fixed the typo

RIV

Hey you wanna see how wide I can open my mouth and put you in there

What

Not in a weird way

20:43

Just

ohno

no im not sure there is a non weird way to take that

Not in a weird way

20:43

Birb are you a cyborg

20:44

Blink twice of you are

XD

Thats one blink

is this a struggle tweet? this feels like a struggle tweet

There we go

Your life is a struggle sweet

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aint that the truth

We all struggling

Not enough people will look at this channel to star that and that's also a struggle TWEET Riv (edited)

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ARG

starehen

dont think i got the star on in time

Anyways

20:46

Sexton is a sloppy gay and basil is a drama gay send tweet

No absolutely

20:47

I don't think sexton has a clue what he's doing self introspection wise at any given moment

Not a single one

If you asked him if he was straight he'd go "huh? Yeah totally" despite the fact he's dating guys because he's just. Hhhhh.

20:48

I'm not sure he'd realize someone was dating him unless they sat him down like "hi hello this is a date" (edited)

and even then, friends go on dates right?

Absolutely

Lmao okay so

20:51

Hang on

20:51

Imma find a free lore channels

20:51

It's sexton and basil time

omg they do look like a lesbian couple lol

upnut

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BASIL

insert me sitting at a romantic dinner table across from a home made giant printout of birbs basil here

bmase

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also i didnt say it before but i love how the babo taco background came out

22:26

im so happy i remembered that photo existed LMAO

The night out with sexton and basil is done oTL

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18:16

Now I can actually work on the Dale Game

BONGERS!!!

bongers

18:20

(airhorns)

I just love basil’s eye makeup so much. It’s mesmerising

hey birb? would i be able to see what the structure of like. creating dialogue and player options is like on that? i wanna see if i can........ translate it

Huh?

18:28

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18:28

So each new thing that happens gets its own slot and it works from top down

18:28

So it'll be a scene change then an expression change then a dialogue

18:29

You can't do them at the same time, if that makes sense

yeah it does! so the orange ones are sprite changes, green is scenery change, and blue is dialogue?

Yes

im asking cause im interested in uh. offering to translate this to something desktop-friendly for you? but i need a lil more info to see if its within my skillset. are you able to explain how uhhh. like progression works in the game? like you mentioned a 'happiness' level for the characters. i understand if youd rather not though!

Oh sure!

18:33

So I'm doing different variables for different things right

18:33

There's dinner, bb, umpire anger, and character happiness

18:34

Those are all your hidden stats

18:34

You gain bb by clicking blaseballs. Bb is what tells the game what section you're on

18:34

IE: bb=2 means you're on chapter 2

18:35

You have to touch a blaseball every practice and that's how I'm forcing the game to update

18:35

It's dumb but it works

18:35

Then you get to different choices

18:35

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18:36

I really don't know how to explain thjs

18:36

So each button you press gives you a different number and those numbers add up and when you get to certain numbers a thing will happen

18:37

Then there's also the dinner variables? Which I'm using for yummy's route

very poggers

So like If you make dinner you get make dinner+1

do u get onto sexton’s route by talking about horses a lot

18:38

just like

No

everything makes plenty of sense so far! i think i understand kinda what you mean with the hidden stats too. have you got an idea of how many outcomes the game will have? just a ballpark is fine

There will be? 6 endings I think?

evie tacos

just like

You run into Sexton and BMase > “Oh hey Sexton and BMase my friends that I know” > “WOW DO I LOVE HORSES AREN’T HORSES VERY GREAT? WHO ELSE AGREES WITH ME?”

Umpire death (bad end), friendship win, McD date win, sexton date win, Michelle date win, and yummy date win

18:41

As of right now I'm just trying to code the friendship win and the umpire death state

18:41

Because each other scene can be added in as needwd

would you be able to estimate how many ways there are to achieve just one? like how many paths give or take would lead to that one. cause i think the way your program works. is a bit like. a series of variables on a graph fill up, and as they go upwards theres. different paths the material can go into, that converge and split again. if that makes sense. and what id be using is twine, which (not metaphor) works like a series of sticky notes on a board with twine connecting each. i think i can do behind the scenes stuff so that i can outwardly mimic the way your original version works, but it would in reality be a series of 'if player picked x and y choices option z is made available'

Not off the top of my head :(

18:46

There's a lot of ways

18:46

But that does make sense

18:47

As long as you have 5 McD happiness and bb>5 you can go on the first McD date. It doesn't matter if it's day 35

18:49

I really do feel like I'm too stupid to be coding this sometimes tbh. It's taking me a very long time to do things that I think should be simple and it's because I just don't know how this stuff works (edited)

18:49

I'm not tech savvy at all wheererereehw

wheererereehw

18:50

I just wanna write stories and draw pictures and a dating sim is a very complicated way to do that (edited)

oh god i feel you exactly

ive tried a few different kinds of coding before, in a games setting even, and some of them i just. cannot understand even a bit. twines tricky and my experience with it is low, but theres a tactile element to it that helps me process whats going on

I wish I had a better way of sending you the code I'm using other than just taking pictures of it

19:21

Also I keep saying "code" it's not really code it's just plugging in variables and conditions into a system and hoping it works but it has code-like properties that are driving me nuts

19:22

I'm very glad I used to do html for my neopets page else I'm sure i wouldn't know anything at all about this

19:22

Or maybe that's a bad thing and has given me the hubris to think I can make a dating sim

19:22

But I have completed 3 days of it

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That's 7%

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Which is terrible

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But!!! I'm doing it

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And I won't stop because I'm stupid and you cannot stop me

its farther than ive ever got with game attempts!!!! and like. just getting the experience is good!!

19:39

i think what ill do re translating. ill download the app on my familys ipad so i can run thru the game myself, and after that and maybe one or 2 more questions, i think ill be able to tell if remaking it in twine is something i can do

Ok

19:59

It would be cool to not have to use this app at all actually

19:59

But I just have no other option

20:00

Unless someone else wants to write the whole dang thing for me and just plug in my art and words but that's;;;;;; a torture

Hey!!

20:22

What color should You Ballboy be

20:22

I'm thinking like Homestuck grey

20:22

Maybe? Blue?

20:22

What do you think

oh homestuck grey. like the lightish one. also ummmmmmm if u need mobile compatible. i think twine is technically? but it Also has coding to it so idk if itd be an improvement for u

How are you thinking of doing the pics on twine, frog? Because that’s normally the biggest problem on mobile

i think homestuck/anon grey is the natural This Is A Generic Insert Character color

Hey! It’s You! And the only time I’ll ever draw them

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brrrpito

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georgia 🌱

How are you thinking of doing the pics on twine, frog? Because that’s normally the biggest problem on mobile

uh. ive never used twine on mobile before? so. good question! ive managed it before working on desktop tho

I mean if birb is still publishing on the app mobile wouldn’t be a priority. I don’t think twine naturally has responsive images though - text and navigation is fine, pictures seem to get cut off

Speaking of! Does anyone want to play test what I have so far? It’s up through the third day, ending right before the dale away game

20:53

I’m fairly sure I have a couple misspelled words that need some attention

20:57

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pZTZOwCxgNAn_PqSN3BccI65EnZBTUmF/view?usp=drivesdk

taco-tuesday.kocho

Actually I already see some things I'm gonna change. There's a strange repetition of words in the giving of the uniform I'm gonna have to redo

IT WORKS HAHA. for reference im on pc and using the bluestacks app i have installed that allows me to play mobile

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00:11

oh my god rat's intro is hilarious

00:13

Hm I did notice that the text speed is irregular at times? but that just might be because of kocho's limits

00:16

Okay im not gonna post any screenshots of the game because i want people to experience this first hand but oh my god

00:17

Rat being the tutorial guide is great birb! I love this choice and yes I will save thank you rat

i'm gonna check this out before bed i think

DALE PLAYERS I AM LOOKING O_O

00:25

oh god i am laughing so hard already

hazel you're making me so hype lol

So far so great! Made it all the way to dinner and I'm gonna try every route possible to see if there's anything. There hasn't been any misspellings as far as I'm aware

00:34

I've been doing the other options but have skip enabled to get to them faster. I'm guessing kocho doesnt have an option to disable auto-skip after making a choice which is a lil frustarting missing the text and having to go back

oh no is bmase mad at me tacosob

tacosob

00:35

i was so excited about rat

00:35

aw thanks rat nvm seems okay i get it lol

00:35

this is so precious

00:37

idk why but like suddenly i have very distinct voice ideas in my head for each of these players and like tacopleadhearts

tacopleadhearts

00:40

there isn't even audio i'm just, something about birb art and the text and i'm like "oh, this is exactly how rat would sound"

yummy elliot's "they called you sir ahahaaaa" chefkiss

chefkiss

i should be sleeping but i'm having too much fun now

I've been overlaying the nitw soundtrack while playing and it's a wonderful experience

galaxysyndrome

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(does it matter whether you make dinner or buy dinner? tacolook

tacolook

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nope. at least not yet. birb hasnt implemented that i dont think

fair enough!

xXx⚡birbteef⚡xXx

I’m fairly sure I have a couple misspelled words that need some attention

i have not found any typos necessarily, but if you want someone to like copyedit and stuff lemme know cause this is actually something creative i know how to do (edited)

Hazel 🐸👽 (they/it)

I've been overlaying the nitw soundtrack while playing and it's a wonderful experience

this was an inspired choice and i thank you for it

waalb

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I'm so glad you like it!!!!

waalb

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Make dinner vs buy dinner will be for yummy's route but since that isn't programmed in yet, it's just a thing you can do

Also I think the text speed thing Is just a kocho problem. There is a skip button that is surprisingly easy to hit and if you do it's going to zoom through the dialogue

Also....I know there's a way to implement music, I wonder if I could find someone willing to make some for me

06:43

Problem would be I obviously cannot pay and as an artist I am morally against free work unless offered

* slides in* hi umm theres a lotta cool free music u can use for stuff like this! either specifically made for games/visual novels, or just. in general! i can dig up some of my links for u if youd like

Yessss

08:44

I have no idea where to begin looking for that kind of thing

sorry im about to go get ready to have a nap but! this has a list of some sites you can browse and notes on licensing https://creativecommons.org/about/program-areas/arts-culture/arts-culture-resources/legalmusicforvideos/ and lemme see if i can grab. one or 2 other things real quick

I mean I'm at work take your time

oh! well in that case. i shoulda been in bed [redacted] hrs ago. please ping me whenever youd like closer to evening time ish and i can getcha those links (and be much more coherent about it)

Nothing about the dating sim is ever urgent

09:15

Alsoooo do you think it would be rude to put Qais Dogwalker in a crop top cuz I wanna put him in a crop top

upnut

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09:15

I wanna know how the dale would feel about that

i think thats the most dale thing ive heard. idk how anyone could be upset abt a crop top anyways, cant go wrong with a good crop top

I think I'm just gonna do it. Better to ask forgiveness than permission

So from tonite till I'm done moving I'm not gonna have any internet so no more progress will be made. I'll have my phone data so I'm not going completely radio silent but I likely won't be on discord much till next week ✌️

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17:19

@ me If sexton does something cool

I was initially going to have the dale party scene be an optional thing but honestly I think it's going to be mandatory even if you are trying to fail the game as quick as possible. If you go to Miami you go to a party that's the rules

20:39

Even the Killjoy friendless You cannot escape party time

20:40

You WILL see Qais Dogwalker DJ and You WILL like it

tacoknife

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When are you adding Oko

20:54

Will I get to hold her hand and make her feel loved?

um i think we should let birb finish the base game before we start asking for extra routes

If there isn't 4500 extra routes then I am uninstalling my soul /j (edited)

Lmao Im probably not gonna add Oko

21:08

I mean who knows once the base Is done adding in extra things would be easy

Just add a low-res jpg of a deer to a couple backgrounds and call it good

"ouch, looks like you missed the oko path this playthough, better luck next time"

When that qais does dogwalker

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16:34

And rivers Clembons

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16:34

I guess I should do one more I’m thinking Caleb Novak

I am LOOKING

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16:46

I love Caleb Novak

16:46

Actually I love all of the dale

Caleb

tacopleadhearts

16:57

I love their uniform it is so much

The dale are absolutely so much

i love them... dale!

LOVE THEM BIRB

Their uniforms are so cool tacosob

tacosob

Small updates!!

19:20

The first half of the dale away game is done. The lights in the stadium go off and the gif works and everything (edited)

19:20

Also betting has consequences!

19:21

If you bet against the tacos McDowell and yummy will get upset with you lmao

19:22

I'm feeling very;;;;; I dunno. Off. About this game since two of the four routes aren't even on the team any more :(

19:22

I've felt a lot less um. Motivated to work on it since Michelle left, and now that McD is gone as well it's kinda;; idk.

19:23

I'm glad it's siesta so I can work this out

Ack that is.... incredibly fair

19:32

I still feel like mcd is an integral part of the tacos wherever he is so I am personally choosing to simply ignore his absence for now

but yeah!! Yeah that’s rough!

19:33

There is also of course the bigger siesta planned for about a month or so after the era wraps? Which should hopefully give you a bit more stability to figure out how you want to handle things if you decided you wanted to hold till then

Oh yrue

19:35

I sure hope nothing happens to the other two tacohen

tacohen

tacohen

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do not speak it into existence tacohen

tacohen

19:37

Alternatively it’s just moment in time tacos, perfectly preserved so they can never leave tacohen

tacohen

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That's also true

19:37

I've been thinking maybe it can just be a snapshot of season 19 tacos and that's all it is

I mean to an extent that is all blaseball fanworks

True

So I think it’s a reasonable approach

19:38

put them in resin you can’t hurt me if I am not looking

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I've just been thinking about like. I'm not making comics or illustrations for the tacos because I've been working on this game that the longer I work on it, the less......I want to

19:39

Not that I don't want to. I very much do. But it's;; hard to keep the momentum going when I know sportsman and McDowell aren't even here I guess

For sure

I'll figure it out

19:41

I wanna work on a sad McD/sexton comic so I may wait for the siesta to really grind down on the game

19:41

But a little here and there is still going to happen

Yesss sad comics tacoknife

tacoknife

19:42

But yeah I wouldn’t feel bad about waiting a month so you’ve got a bit more stability

Birb I am very excited about this dating sim ^_^ I know the feeling of losing momentum on a project. I dont think anyone will really forget that chell was always a taco ( ~~People still simp for her and by people I really mean me~~) I'll always be down to test what you have so far :>

I have given this some thought. And frankly, I’ve decided it feels like a bummer to work on, even if I keep it as a snapshot of the season it was started. I was always aware the characters could have been traded or incinerated (thankfully they weren’t) but I didn’t expect trades to happen so /soon/ after I started. Wild low isn’t even a thing any more so it feels- idk. Idk! That being said, I do have a bunch of assets made, and a beginning written out, and I am absolutely more than willing to hand what I have done off to someone else if they want to pick it up. Be it the assets or the writing or anything. If you wanna use it feel free to ask and I’ll give it. A large part of the problem is the program I was working with (Kocho) is……..extremely unfriendly to use XD and I just wanted to do more than it was willing to let me. So whenever I feel like “yeah! I’ll work on the date sim!” I run into a coding wall that I just can’t get over without an hour of work that by the time I’m done I don’t want to actually write the game. Sorry I’m a bummer but I do have other things in the works that will hopefully make up for it (Also if u wanna delete this channel at some point that would be cool)

heartaco

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Yeah I understand Birb. I can't make any promises because I'll have to see if my college let's me take a leave at the end of August but I would like to continue the taco dating sim ^w^. It's a wonderful project! I've been trying to learn RenPy actually

Yeah! I'd kinda hate for it to go to waste but also;;; I'm not the one to do it

it's aight. threethumbsup

threethumbsup

could you DM me the assets

@xXx⚡birbteef⚡xXx stuff like this is never really a waste because you learned something along the way. even if its that the tools you picked out suck, you at least learned to not use them in future (edited)

upnut

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@xXx⚡birbteef⚡xXx this project brought joy, creativity, and community into the stand. Even if you never touch it again, it was totally worth it.

upnut

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ditto!!

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1--ohLIb8GcOm5akdxXbmv0Y9SbEalIb-

oh man haven't talked here in a while but

10:15

i might release the beta test for that tacos "frienship sim" soon since i got a va for basilio mason

10:15

and im voicing rat because i love rat and i can get the tone down for her

Yeaaaaaaaaa

10:23

I'm excited to see it

heck yes heck yes

Also I'm still available to help with stuff I just;;;; I can't run anything lmao

oh yeah im still open for help. when i mean test, im going to see if the new thing im doing is going to work. Im not using RenPy for the first test. im making a dummy in adobe premiere to secure the overall look and feel of the game. The overall plan is that each volume contains 2 characters and each character route takes around 45 minutes to complete

10:33

It's going to be hard to find a VA for mcd because sasquatch

I think McD has a very low soft voice

10:34

I think he sounds like a human though. Not a creature (edited)

10:34

Idk I have like- voices for all of them in my head but idk who id get to voice them (edited)

Oh yeah absolutely. there might be someone out there in the blaseball fandom that sounds like him So the test is going to be a video format rather than a game but it looks like a visual novel playthrough. theres only one ending though for now (edited)

I'm excited to see it!

McDowell sounds like patrick warburton

10:58

specifically brock samson

for me McDowell sounds kinda like the Rock Biter from Neverending Story

i havent seen that in so long so idk what they actually sound like but based on the name i think yeah probably the same i picture in my head

I agree with cama but I think Warburton always sounds like Warburton and if you could get someone with the same...sound? That doesn't sound like Warburton, that's who I would want

11:18

If that makes any sense at all

11:19

But that sort of blunt and deep but still?? Like kind? Like he sounds kind idk if that makes sense at all

Yeah

Like Warburton just sounds nice

11:20

Like that's a nice man

Warburton voices himself

11:20

Essentially

Yeah

He has a very distinct voice

You can always tell it's him

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQyorpxZ8rs

The Neverending Story (1/10) Movie CLIP - A Hungry Rockbiter (1984) HD

Hey @xXx⚡birbteef⚡xXx and @Hazel 🐸👽 (they/it) I know this project kinda reached a pause point. Do you all mind if we archive the channel? It would go down to the archive category and be read only and if/when someone wants to revive it they can shoot a modmail and it'll be back (or Hazel can just do it themself I think) (edited)

I don't mind at all! I'm done with it outside of anything hazel needs

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Yes we can archive it!

tacoparty

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