MY!!!! DUDES!!!!!

My first completed game project created while I’ve been on Patreon IS NOW AVAILABLE TO DOWNLOAD!!

The footage above is recorded directly from the game – it’s a good summary video of the visual style that all of my game projects will have~ 🎀

It also goes over what plans I have for future projects (0:20) and what games I have done in the past (1:00).

If you’re willing and able to help me make these games come to life, get all the deets here on my Patreon!!  (If you’d rather not subscribe for monthly payments, a single donation through Paypal is also perfectly sublime!)

Thank you so much for following me while I have worked on this!  I will only be creating more games!! 🤗

This month has brought about MUCHO COMPLETELY NEW ART 🎨 as well as ✨ SHINY, SPARKLING POLISH. ✨

• Numerous Small Things @_@ – This post details a lot of backend work that was tidied up to make the game run more efficiently and correctly~
• New font, super slick hover text, and other cool things – The contents of this post are pretty much summarized in the title.. 😁 The hover text is something I’m really proud of, especially its nice drop shadow!
• 🎀 !DOWNLOAD! The Welcome Video Early Demo 🎀- YES!!!  The first download for something actually playable was made available early in this month!! 🌟 All of the functions I’ve been pouring into this tiny, welcoming world were specifically so this could be made available~  Check it out if you have a minute!
• Yes/No Prompts, Cute Font Details, and More! – Cute little icons were added to the text in this update, such as little hearts, stars, or music notes at the end of dialog. 🎵 But more functionally, a pop-up box where the player can select “yes” or “no” (or “save” and “load,” etc.) is now operable~
• Hey Guys Check Out My Old, Embarrassing Games – This post, which is freely available for everyone to read (even non-Patrons), lists a handful of the previous game projects I have made and worked on!  Wanna see some extremely low-resolution art of mine from 10 years ago?  This is where you can check it out. 😳
• smol and ANGER – This post is the source of the preview image at the top of this summary page. 😆 Some of these characters need multiple expressions to show, and that what was worked on in this update.
• Super Hardcore Art Mode ENGAGED – Some serious painting progress was made in this post~ 🖌️ Finally, those objects that were just sitting on the map, uncolored, are all prettily painted, and with new examinable text over them!
• Map Painting Finished + Glowies! – A wrap-up post for those art elements from the previous post, plus an important, ambient piece of polish – MAGICAL GLOWIES.  The animated gif that shows them off in this post is mesmerizing. ☄️🌌☄️
• Painting a HOUSE!! – There is, in fact, a SECOND MAP to explore in this Welcome demo, and the art for its interior is first shown off here~
• House Interior P Much Finished – A follow-up related to the previous post, this one shows the new, finished map implemented in-game, with the player walking around and exploring the new space~ 🏡 Won’t you stop by and stay for tea in this sweet little house?

👍 Lots of REALLY GOOD STUFF was accomplished this month!!  I am feeling really happy and confident about how my sweet little project is growing. 🤗 Thanks so much for reading and following along with my experience, and if you’d like to help in any form, consider the links below to either become a patron or just to donate once through Paypal any small amount~ 💝

Do you remember being little and having a bamillion choices of fruit snacks and stuff, and you HAD to get them in your favorite cartoon character shapes??  That’s what these Pokemon snacks and things remind me of, lol!

These have the added bonus of being imported Japanese food, so you KNOW that they are packaged cutely and are a fun novelty to eat!

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FURUTA POKEMON Jelly

These are convenient for putting in a bento-style lunch –
they are individually-packaged little servings of jelly,
for spreading on sandwiches or anything else appropriate in your lunch.
There is a different cute Pokemon on each one!

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SANYO Sapporo No.1 Pokemon Noodles Seafood Flavor

Instant!!  Noodles!!  Y’all!!
This cup of instant noodles has little Pikachu faces in it,
along with Chimchar in the sample photo (I don’t know
if there are different Pokemon you can get, though)~
It looks SO TASTY!  Oh man, I’m craving noodles now…

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TOHATO Pokemon White Chocolate Biscuits

These crunchy-looking cookies are white chocolate flavored
and come in little Pikachu shapes!

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MARUMIYA Pokemon Rice Sprinkles Minipack 

You know, I’m not totally sure what these are, but maybe you guys can tell me?
There are a WHOLE BUNCH of individually-packaged servings of “rice sprinkles”
that you get here, decorated sort of like Pokemon cards.
I don’t know if it is flavoring for your rice?  But it seems to be another convenient,
single-serving thing to put in your bento. :3

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Pokemon Get Chocolate Maker Tsukuru Oyatsu DIY Chocolate Kit

This is a whole kit for making your own milk + white chocolate Pokeballs,
with Pikachu (and Rowlet!) inside!
I think this is probably the coolest thing in this roundup –
DIY sweets things are just totally my weekness!

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and if you enjoy this post, consider supporting BonBonBunny~
I’m so grateful for you! ⚡

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A huuuuuuge quantity of technical updates and backend polishing went on this month!! 🌟 And some great art progress as well!! 🎨 The environment is pretty much completely painted, with only a few uncolored details around the map~

Here’s a summary of each update post!:

• In Background Art Lookin’ Good!, the first pieces of foliage were painted into the world~ 🌳 For the first time, the colorful fantasy environment was really made apparent; bushes and trees in a rainbow of colors populate this world! 🌈
• The next update, Background Painting Coming Together – Cute Little House, the details of the map began to blossom up.  There is a cozy little house tucked in there – who could live there? 🏡  I also learned a fair bit about Game Maker’s texture pages!
• A Flowery New Friend!! 🌸 This introduced a new inhabitant of the colorful world, with some fairly early art… she gets updated in another post or two!
• In Serious Map-Building, the artsy aspects of the environment are set aside in order to get them all functioning as a map that the player can walk around in and interact with. 🏞️ There were a lot of lessons learned in this process!! 💪 And they all lead toward more efficient work in the future! 💪💪
• A huuuuuge update summary post titled Dialog is getting really polished!! lists a great quantity of important fixes and additions!  Most importantly among them being DIALOG FOR THE NPC’S!! 🗣️💬
• A SECOND huge update list is detailed in  The To-Do List is Getting Smaller~!! 📝  While most of the previous post covered things related to the NPC’s, this one is widely varied, with polishes for movement, placement of UI elements on the screen, and MUSIC!! 🎶
• And, finally, just yesterday brought us Pauses in Dialog OMG!!!!!!    😱 Yes, I really am that excited about it, lol.  Making your reading dynamic is one of THE most important aspects of games with dialog, and I even share my code for finally figuring out how to implement this dynamic in this post. 👾
• Also in the above post is a cute animated gif of the cute, tiny dust puffs I implemented as the characters walk around LOL. 🐾

Whew!  I’m really, REALLY happy about the amount of progress this month!! 🤗  Like I’ve said in these updates, there truly isn’t much technical stuff left, and it’s just up to me to paint the remaining details! 🎨🖌️

I’ll have something fun for everyone to download VERY soon! 🐇

✨ Thank you so much for taking the time to read my summary of what I’ve been up to over this month, and if you’d like to help in any form, consider the links below to either become a patron or just to donate once through Paypal any small amount~

ThinkGeek made this official fashion line available, featuring familiar motifs from Breath of the Wild!!  I think these are AWESOME!!  Some of them are kind of subtle, so you can wear them casually without it being suuuper obvious that you’re wearing something geeky (handy in some situations).  Of course, the overtly geeky stuff is awesome fun, too!

Zelda: Breath of the Wild Sheikah Ladies’ Jacket

Zelda: Breath of the Wild Hylian Ladies’ Knitted Poncho Wrap

Zelda: Breath of the Wild Hylian Shield Ladies’ Knitted Poncho Wrap

Zelda: Breath of the Wild Divine Beasts Ladies’ Tee

These!!!  Are!!!  RAD!!!!!!  My fave of these four pieces is the blue shawl, which reminds me of Zelda’s blue, bell-sleeved dress~  The grey poncho is also really cool – its design is based on the Hylian Shield!

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Zelda: Breath of the Wild Link Coat

Zelda: Breath of the Wild Link’s Arm Guard Sweater Hoodie

Zelda: Breath of the Wild Divine Beasts T-Shirt

Zelda: Breath of the Wild Link’s Tunic Sweater

Cool!!  The coat is another subtle one, but my favorite thing of these four is the light green cardigan sweater.  It reminds me a bit of Link’s starting out tunic, but the designs on it actually match the undershirt you see under the Champion’s tunic, and those Gerudo-motif arm designs are on there too!

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Zelda: Breath of the Wild Mipha’s Beanie

Zelda: Breath of the Wild Backpack

Zelda: Breath of the Wild Revali Hooded Scarf

Zelda: Breath of the Wild Daruk Beanie Cap

Zelda: Breath of the Wild Urbosa Chiffon Scarf

!!! CHAMPION STUFF!!!  This is the first time I’ve ever seen official merchandise for the Four Champions.  Which is awesome, because NOW I CAN WEAR A SCARF LIKE URBOSA!!  Seriously, everything listed here is cool.  The Mipha beanie is so cute (and perf for fans of Sidon, too!), and the Revali hat with long scarf tails is so cool!!  I thought the Daruk thing was just a headband but it’s actually a beanie (the top is whitish grey).  When I realized that, it made me think of the black-headband-with-white-cap-on-top that the male Pokemon trainer from Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald wears, lol?!?

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