bobcgames (he/him)The amazing @PatchrickPlayer1 will be streaming #YAGS in a little over an hour
Come check him out! (Not like that... okay, maybe also like that)
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Posted this to Bluesky so I guess I should mirror it here
#YAGS is one of my earliest games (and I've made a *lot* since then), but it's one of the games I'm most proud of
It covers coming out and making friends in college, and was intended to cover the gay male experience in a way I hadn't really seen
It's free on Steam and Itch! https://yags.bobcgames.com
Okay... I haven't updated much lately, but I'm working on a game for #BaraJam 2024!
It's the first in my intended-series of #queer games following middle-aged gays in a contemporary world with a SciFi twist... so #YAGS but not college
Should have more updates... soon?
#GameDev #IndieDev #GameJam #MTRGame
(Also I'm going to start trying cross-posting to bsky, so you can follow me there https://bsky.app/profile/bobcgames.bsky.social )
Bob Conway (@bobcgames.bsky.social)
Gamedev โ Queer โ He/him โ Creator of #yags & #zags โ bobcgames.com Writer and coder for queer games, working primarily in #renpy; also find me on Mastodon @[email protected]
theplayedalone has recorded a cover of the #YAGS theme!
Check it out here: https://soundcloud.com/theplayedalone/yearning-andrew-russell-cover/s-CGED8IZQ6tw
yearning (andrew russell cover)
london, musician. always down for collabs n stuff if u wanna message me :)
OMG
"YAGS and this connective universe is really fun. But more then that, the people that see it get exposure to important topics."
"At minimum you're a great writer so there's no chance it won't at least be as entertaining. Which especially for our community is sometimes all we need to get by. Something fun where someone can say, that character is like me so I can actually care what happens. "
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Comments like *this* are what makes gamedev so worth it
Ahhhhhhhh โค๏ธโ
One of the problems I've had in the past with #RenPy games is typos in updating variables
For example, in #YAGS, I once typoed
$affection_jake = 1
where I meant
$affection_jake += 1
turning an inconsequential decision into a run-breaking choice
I've been using CDSes to prevent that problem for myself for a while now (turning the above into "affection jake add 1" instead, which is cleaner, more understandable, and impossible to screw up), and now I've cleaned up the code and made it generally available!
Check out my RenPy stat framework here:
https://bobcgames.itch.io/bobcstats
I sat in on PatchrickPlayer1 streaming #YAGS last night, and it got me on a kick of watching old LPs of my games, and it got me thinking... I don't make games like that anymore
Like I feel like YAGS and YAGS: Booty Call and Earth Boys Are Easy and Charles 2.0 and At First Sight all had some creative *spark* to them that I've been unable to replicate (or maybe just haven't been chasing) since then
At least some of it is how burnt out I am with the day job (and its effect on my gamedev), but in general... I don't have ideas like I used to, so gamedev has turned more into coding exercises for me, and it turns out those aren't as fun for players ๐ โ
I currently have three WIPs that I need to finish, but maybe after that I'll try to go back to a traditional visual novel and see if anything clicks there
Anyway
Gamedev is hard ๐โ
Okay, I think the Match 3 stuff I've been working on is going to become the basis of the next #YAGS series game, tentatively studied "ZAGS: Study Pop"
I've nice-ified the UI a little, and implemented in notebooks (score multipliers) and energy (additional turns)... still need to get presents in place, which will be usable powers to do things like remove specific slots of items
Anyway... progress!
ZAGS: The Role We Play, my queer Halloween-themed ATB RPG based in the #YAGS universe, is now out!
You can grab it here: https://bobcgames.itch.io/zrwp
