Ellie Darwin 🎃🐍

Pumpkin Snake Games • she/they • hobbyist RMXP game developer • created seaglass, helped create Inn Need • current projects: away in the woods, Inn Need Build B

[Ellie Darwin 🎃🐍 @thepumpkinsnake]

Hello everyone! I'd like to proudly announce my next game: away in the woods! away in the woods is going to be an RMXP game where the player spends three days (one at age 25, 50, and 75) in the life of a woman who lives alone in the woods and make choices to shape her reputation.

[Ellie Darwin 🎃🐍 @thepumpkinsnake]

Less exciting: I hate what Twitter/X have become and have lost my will to keep up with it, as my silence despite getting all this done would imply. I'm going to delete this account in a month or so because it's not worth trying to keep up with anymore.

[Ellie Darwin 🎃🐍 @thepumpkinsnake]

Hey all, long time no chat! I have four exciting pieces of news:
- Inn Need development is nearly wrapped up
- I'm back to working on away in the woods
- I am now Lavender Mocha Games... pretty much everywhere else on the internet!
- I have a website: https://t.co/UfcjVNZDDO

[Ellie Darwin 🎃🐍 @thepumpkinsnake]

Inn Need has officially entered beta testing! This is the final stage before the game is ready to release, and the whole team is really looking forward to getting it out into the world.

[Ellie Darwin 🎃🐍 @thepumpkinsnake]

Inn Need is continuing along in alpha testing, and on a personal development note I've started brainstorming characters for the game I'll be making after away in the woods :P

[Ellie Darwin 🎃🐍 @thepumpkinsnake]

@RPGmakerweb RMXP!!!

[Ellie Darwin 🎃🐍 @thepumpkinsnake]

Pleased to report Inn Need Build B has officially entered alpha testing!

[Ellie Darwin 🎃🐍 @thepumpkinsnake]

Inn Need has its setting menu~! Adapted from the menu script KShlenam XP.

[Ellie Darwin 🎃🐍 @thepumpkinsnake]

My Inn Need progress this week is all behind the scenes, but luckily I can spare a screenshot of how one of my away in the woods maps is coming along!

[Ellie Darwin 🎃🐍 @thepumpkinsnake]

This week's update is exclusively behind-the-scenes: I moved all my game dev notes to a new program with a great flowchart builder (Obsidian) and made a quest flow chart for Inn Need Build B. Any guesses what's going on here? 👀

[Ellie Darwin 🎃🐍 @thepumpkinsnake]

@Ishtisaur THANK UUUU

[Ellie Darwin 🎃🐍 @thepumpkinsnake]

Finished the first shot at all the various ages of the game's protagonist!

[Ellie Darwin 🎃🐍 @thepumpkinsnake]

Unfortunately my endeavors into mkxp were not successful, so we're probably looking at recommending Wine to Mac and Linux users! I'm going to switch my efforts to compiling handy guides for Wine so people can use it easily.

[Ellie Darwin 🎃🐍 @thepumpkinsnake]

Since I'm doing well on my Inn Need to do list, I worked a bit on away in the woods this weekend: specifically, I finalized the (first) design for its leading lady! here's a breakdown of the sprites I used for her, and all the little variants I made before settling on her sprite.

[Ellie Darwin 🎃🐍 @thepumpkinsnake]

Pleased to announce I have finished my part of events and gameplay for Inn Need Build B! My next goal is to research and attempt to port it to Mac and Linux.

[Ellie Darwin 🎃🐍 @thepumpkinsnake]

Revamped my game dev tumblr: https://t.co/BvCg5B7UqS
Each game has its own designated page now, with some snazzy new themes!

[Ellie Darwin 🎃🐍 @thepumpkinsnake]

Mostly took a break from game dev to focus on my pieces for @RPZineMaker - if you're an RPG Maker fan, I really recommend checking out the project and following the twitter!

[Ellie Darwin 🎃🐍 @thepumpkinsnake]

I've been working on a new item for the game to add to Build B, that should hopefully make the game a little easier for new players...

[Ellie Darwin 🎃🐍 @thepumpkinsnake]

This hotel room is starting to look pretty lively for one themed around the undead...

[Ellie Darwin 🎃🐍 @thepumpkinsnake]

whoops, I've been neglecting my weekly screenshot! let's play the spot the difference between Build A and Build B

[Ellie Darwin 🎃🐍 @thepumpkinsnake]

My other note is I made a tumblr: https://t.co/BvCg5B7UqS. Empty so far, but hey, give me a follow if you feel like it!

[Ellie Darwin 🎃🐍 @thepumpkinsnake]

Hello all and happy new year! Going into 2023, I'm trying to get back on schedule with game dev. My first priority is to get my part of Inn Need Build B done, and then I'm going to make strides towards away in the woods.

[Ellie Darwin 🎃🐍 @thepumpkinsnake]

I never know what to post as my weekly updates when I'm doing Inn Need stuff, because of the collaborative nature, so I'm not sure how much I should keep secret versus post haha. I think I'll try to post a screenshot a week until Build B is released!