turtlehat

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game dev doing too many arts at once ~ he/they ~ adult ~ account is 13+ developing #AvocadoAttorney, a courtroom visual novel made in scratch. don't develop your games in scratch ✊🏾🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Comic of me and a friend talking while walking together

Panel 1
Me (thinking mischievously): "Ooooooo I just got a sick idea for my game's combat system"
Friend (leaning back): "Course ya would"

Panel 2
Friend (annoyed): "Wait don't tell me you're adding a combat mechanic too that's gonna take you like 5 billion years"
Me: "Oh, not to Avocado Attorney, no"

Panel 3
Me: "It's for one I wanna make in the future"
Friend: "How far in the future we talkin"
Me: "Well this'll be game #4"
Friend: "And you're SURE you'll actually get around to making it"
Me: "Yeah I've got it all handled!"

Panel 4
Me (smugly holding up a timeline with faces on it): "It's all part of my 15-year plan"
Friend (looking at it skeptically): "Are we in Year 1"
Me: "Hopefully"

Testing out image/scene inspection in Avocado Attorney, looking around a bedroom scene. The player uses keyboard and mouse controls to move the cursor and select various objects in the room, including a poster, bed, window, and dresser, each of which have unique reaction dialogue.

A cookie submitted to the Jackbox game Cookie Haus in the shape of Flick's face from Miscreants. The cookie is titled "flick fluttermoore," submitted by Tortolhot.

Scratch code for the single evidence presenting section seen in the previous post.

Testing the evidence presenting sections in Avocado Attorney. First is a section that asks for a single piece of evidence and inflicts damage if the player guesses incorrectly (except for one piece of evidence that just gives funny dialogue). Next is a section that asks the player to provide two pieces of evidence, and comments on different combinations of correct and incorrect choices.

Navigating the inventory and dialogue options in Avocado Attorney using both mouse and keyboard controls. Buttons are a neutral green, while information boxes are dark green. Cursors for selecting inventory items and dialogue options are bright green. All buttons have their respective keyboard shortcut shown in one of their corners.

Drawing of me smiling and giving a thumbs-up, wearing a tee shirt that reads, "This idiot passed out while watching Iron Lung"

"if on edge, bounce" Scratch block

Four-panel fan comic featuring Final Fantasy VII characters.

Cloud and Red XIII are sitting together, with Cloud scratching Red's neck.
Cloud: "There, who's a good doggyyy? Who deserves neck scritches? You do! You doooo~"

Closeup of Red XIII, annoyed.
Red: "You can stop with the baby talk, Cloud." "In Cosmo Canyon I have been lauded for my contributions to the Study of Planet Life, and I understand the geologic and ecologic effects of Spirit Energy depletion better than anyone from here to Midgar. I'm a more accomplished researcher than even that Prof. Hojo." "And, I believe, I am older than you."

Red XIII lifts a paw to Cloud, who recoils.
Red: "Perhaps I should be scratching *your* neck."
Cloud: "Hey! Keep your paws to your—"

Red XIII scratches Cloud's neck, who appears placated but annoyed.
Cloud: "The (*^%?! That shouldn't work on me..."
Red: "Shouldn't it? You're a mammal too."
Cloud: "Yeah, but I'm not the damn mutt here!"

Art of Candyether's characters (from left to right) Toster, Bluby, Clay, Reed, and Sappy playing poker together.

Toster's face can't be seen, but Bluby looks at Sappy confusedly, Clay gives him an excited look, and Reed gives a mischievous grin, because he just placed a Joker from Balatro on the table. Sappy bashfully suggests, "...birthday boy picks the rules?"

A message in the corner reads, "Happy B-Day! -turtlehat"

A two panel comic about The Game Awards.

In the first panel, a list of nominees for "Longest Time in Development": Pokémon Legends Z-A, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Donkey Kong Barrel Blast, Half-Life 3, and skong.
Geoff Keighley announces on the side, "...and the clair winner is an obscure little indie game from france, if you get what i mean, ahaha..."

In the second panel, two people from Sandfall Interactive get up from their seats to accept the award, one of them holding an armful of trophies. Seated beside them are two people from Team Cherry, one of them weeping with their head in their hands, and the other consoling them. The weeping one says, "please just say it geoff i'm so tired." A little plush Hornet sits on the seat next to them with their singular trophy.

Demonstration of navigating a menu in Avocado Attorney. The player can select from a list of dialogue options with the keyboard or mouse, and can switch between pages when more than four options are available. Picking certain menu options can add new options to the menu, or lead to a sub-menu with a different set of options.

meme comic

panel 1: zoroark
panel 2: cereal guy saying "He will never BALLIN'"
panel 3: zoroark UNDENIABLY BALLIN (background art by ishmam on deviantart)
panel 4: cereal guy flabbergasted

A video of a Professor Layton-style puzzle game about moving characters from In Stars and Time around on a shelf to put them in an optimal order. The game is made in Scratch.

A slideshow with old-timey narration explaining the history and nature of Gordania, the 51st American state, and how seismic activity will cause it to sink into the Pacific Ocean. At the end, an octopus-like entity appears and says, "Show me Gordania. If I admire it, I will save it."

Siffrin, annoyed

Malanga fritters frying in a pan, with a bowl of batter and finished fritters to the side (in grayscale)

* I haven't played Undertale yet, but it still certainly changed my life. I watched videos about it on YouTube and would often watch my friends play it before school started. - turtlehat

Gameplay of completing a cross-examination section in Avocado Attorney. The different views of the Court Record—the grid view, focus on one item, and examining the item—have animated transitions when interface elements appear, disappear, or change.

Scratch code of a cross-examination section in Avocado Attorney. After opening the cross-examination and playing music, a loop containing each statement handles the logic for cross-examining. It first adds a number of statements of testimony, each with text, an animation, and a unique Statement ID. Next, one pair of Statement ID and evidence is marked as a solution to the section. Finally, the list of statements is closed. A series of if-then statements contains each dialogue scene that plays when the player presses the witness about each statement. Outside the cross-examination loop, the dialogue for completing the cross-examination continues.

(Gameplay of Avocado Attorney)

Ian: "Cross-Examination Testing!"

(Cross-Examination titled "The Big Issue" starts)

Anina: "I was walking home"
Anina: "Then I realized I had something to do"
Anina: "So I wrote all of Avocado Attorney"

(Press on first statement:)

Ian: "Hold it!"
Anina: "It's a pretty cool home"
Anina: "It has a tree out front"

(Press on second statement:)

Ian: "Hold it!"
Ian: "Ok but what was it"
Anina: "I'M GETTING TO IT BE PATIENT"
Ian: "OK SORRY :("

(Press on third statement:)

Ian: "Hold it!"
Anina: "Yeah it's finally finished! Can you believe it :3"

Ian: "Something's fishy about this story..."
Anina: "I agree I think she's lying"
Ian: "Isn't that you tho"

(Present Cheesy Puffs on second statement:)

Ian: "Objection!"
Ian: "This is it right??"
Toast: "nuh uh u MESSED UP"

(Present AvocadoAttorneyScreenplay.pdf (0KB) on third statement:)

Ian: "Objection!"
Ian: "ok that's gotta be it right"
Anina: "yeah wowee you did it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! great job bestie"

Panel 1:
(Mecker's hand holding a realistic bell pepper PNG.)
Mecker: "showed up late to work, stubbed my toe on a doorframe, mismatched socks, couldn't get any damn work done,"

Panel 2:
(Mecker stares down the pepper, determined.)
Mecker: "spilled mana potion on my uniform, missed the bus home and had to walk..."
Mecker: "today sucked"

Panel 3:
(Mecker sits hunched on her chair and bites the pepper.)
Mecker: "the only snack i've got is this stupid PEPPER" (the word "pepper" is green and glowing)
(Sound: chowmph)
Mecker: "but i'm gonna ENJOY IT"

Panel 4:
(Mecker sits up satisfied)
Mecker, loudly: HELL YEAH

A demonstration of Avocado Attorney's system for applying graphic effects to visual overlays. First, two overlays are created, one on the foreground layer and one on the background layer. The fisheye effect is then applied to the background overlay, and the brightness effect is applied to foreground overlay. The whirl effect is applied to all layers, transitioning to its final value over the duration of the video. The color effect is applied to overlays on the actor layer, which currently has no overlays on it. Finally, a new overlay is created on the actor layer, and exhibits the previously applied transitions for both the color and whirl effects.

A demonstration of all animated visual overlays currently implemented in Avocado Attorney. In order: Showing an arbitrary image that fades in and out, the Judge's gavel animation, a 100 millisecond white flash, the speech balloons for shouting "Objection!" "Hold it!" and "Take that!," and the two section titles for starting Witness Testimony and Cross Examination.

A custom Scratch block, reading "say '[D20]Creating overlays... [OS2,2000][OB3,2000][OA4,2000][OF5,2000][OE6,2000]now![W2500][nClearing overlays... [OC2000]now!' as current actor."

A testing scene from Avocado Attorney. The player character Ian says, "Creating overlays... now!" in a textbox, and vertical red bars appear at different depth levels throughout the scene. After a pause, he says "Clearing overlays... now!" and the bars disappear.

A pūkeko chick edited to look like a Rain Deer from Rain World, walking over Worm Grass. Caption: "PRECIPITATION!!!!!!"