Dev Blog 5: This one is for You!

A lot of this blog was meant to reach no one. In a silly spiteful move, SPECIFICALLY NO ONE FROM A GROUP OF PEOPLE I WANTED IT TO REACH VERY BADLY. It worked and I am on the other end of a roll credits moment. Feeling, like anyone should post credits, silly but also glad. They really gave me the closure I needed on my old life and now I can really enjoy my work and, yes, ok, some of the spite that comes with it. Thanks, one specific reader. You know who you are, don't be bloody coy!

The rest is just boring not-even-dev shit, you can read it later! Everyone else, read this and pretend to care (or read it so you can pretend you were here before I became Toby Fox 2: Annoying-est Dog.)

Ok, it's just me and people I don't know? so, it's a small and stupid outline of my game ideas as they relate to my very first demo. "Oh, thats getting off on a bad foot, the core is the engine and you should make the GAME first and the-"

Shuuuuuuuut the fuck up. Let a beardo dream.

Part 0:

Project Are You Being served is a story about a Luchador named Mateo. A lot of the world it will build is already somewhere in my head. A Capitalist Post-Shonen Hellscape where the lessons we learn of perseverance, kindness and bravery reflect a grim place that shines with hope but always goes dark with reality. Mateo gets to be the person who was there at it's beginning. Like the violent media that raised me, his stories of valor, comedy, grit and FUCKING HANDS will set the stage for the darker world to come after.

Part 1:

Later on, we will see the same plucky kids of a My Hero Academia or Naruto like world fight through a black comedy beat-em-up to the end of a sinister eldritch conspiracy of parents preying on their own children. Using the hopeful trappings of the Shonen genre, the ending will show these kids escaping their twisted fate into hell and somehow being thankful for it.

Part 3:

That winds into the main story. Like the rest it is tied to a gameplay mechanic. Part Timers: Dash (as it was or maybe IS named) was a violent anime style tower defense/beat em up set in the decaying bones of a long dead mall. Retail as a blood sport has been the norm since people discovered the tapes of the original pugilist retailer: Mateo. Now the very world we find ourselves struggling to pay rent in resembles less of a grind and more of an eternal punishment.

The game plays with an ensemble cast of [CLEARLY THE OC CHARACTER], A Broke Hyper Intelligent non-carbon based alien, Vintage Robots who like Ska and have serious anger issues and all sorts of other run on sentences. Their individual stories and personalities decorate the repeatable basic plot, allowing each playthrough to be flavored by not only their unique gameplay but reactions to the same (similar) events of the playthrough.

Part 4:

This is where this becomes a blog/thank you post again. I thought trying that writing idea would be fun. Still mentioned my OC just not by name :P.

I have an image of part 4. The SUPER NINTENDO to Part 3's NINTENDO. If I ever planned a game LESS to be about the game and in general more on the assumption that someone would ask me, but what would The Kid and Angerbot do if they met in the future? Is Riot Girl (not good at names.) Trans or did you just like Cybersix as a disturbed kid? (both) What was with the secret ending you locked under a near impossible level? SO IT ISN'T REAL! JUST LIKE HOW INTENTIONALLY PART 2 ISN'T REAL!

Part 5:

So, through a lot of extra stuff that isn't a blog post, our hero arrives at basically a more hopeful part 3. Like all my work it is or was about the people I met and the way I saw them through gameplay... that has changed drastically. Like all of this Part 5 isn't real. What I feel and how I try and turn it into work is real. That is not what people will play.

I can't tell you about the shape it will take. I know where Part 0 needs to go and where I will move from there. I know Part 1 is personal and not ready. Part 2 is [CENSORED]. Part 3 is just waiting a budget and an audience and the rest is, as I said, not real right now.

Very related anime quote:

I want nothing more than to be a bayonet; a bayonet wielded by the hand of God. I would have been happy to have been born a storm, or a divine threat, a mighty explosion, or even a terrible hurricane. A divine force of nature without a heart or pity. — Alexander Anderson

That's the MOOD of chapter 5 and my darker feelings about being a spurned creator. I always looked up to the guy I'm quoting there. An awful monster of man, serving his purpose without second thought and no care for if and when he is discarded. I quoted it a lot when I hurt as a child and now I feel like I kinda EARNED the right to finally say it and feel it.

Oh, no game update. I am a slow ass learner and with the CLEAR myriad of personal shit that spawned this blog, I have just been living the life and letting the inherent experience be enough. Even when I finish, the LEARNING is not in taking notes but being able to access the knowledge on my own in unfamiliar contexts, no? So, this is the boring part. Imagine me sitting in front of an iPad and squirming like I have 4K ADHD running at a smooth 26 FPS.

What is that not enough progress for you? You aren't my boss!

Shout out to the bare necessities and On-Together.

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