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Developer, writer, and composer for games like Prom Dreams: A High School Love Story and Turovero: The Celestial Tower! itch.io: qz-productions YouTube: @QZProductionsGames Current project is a visual novel called "Elysian: Mirror of Epiphany"!

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QZ Productions @qzproductions.bsky.social · Sep 18

itch announcement of Elysian's progress. A proper game page will be made once key visuals are completed!

itch.io/blog/1034697...

Elysian: Mirror of Epiphany - latest project now in beta testing!

After 6 years of writing and over 200k words total (!?), I'm happy to announce that my latest project, a Ren'py visual novel called

itch.io

QZ Productions @qzproductions.bsky.social · 1d

When you're TOO good at conveying characters through musical themes and the loud and obnoxious character's theme is loud and obnoxious lol

(actual solution: I just lowered the relative volume by 20% whenever it plays lmao. Should do that with other "loud" tracks too methinks.)

QZ Productions @qzproductions.bsky.social · 4d

Oh, the sprite artist was also coordinating drafts with me. Abigail's going to have a fan on her at all times. because it's cool and because we CAN

a man in a blue shirt is sitting in a chair in front of a wall with a number 09 on it

Alt: a man in a blue shirt is sitting in a chair and fanning himself with a folding hand fan

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QZ Productions @qzproductions.bsky.social · 4d

And, most importantly:

-Accidentally paste the phrase "I DID NOT MR ELECTRIC SEND HIM TO THE PRINCIPAL'S OFFICE AND HAVE HIM EXPELLED" into the script, causing Philip to suddenly exclaim this for no reason in the middle of one of his lines. I thought I'd copied a text tag... 💀

QZ Productions @qzproductions.bsky.social · 4d

Things I did this past week:

-Go through the script and edit out excessive punctuation
-Edited a few lines for one particular route to better convey intended ideas
-Fixed some mid-game affection score calculation weirdness

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QZ Productions @qzproductions.bsky.social · 6d

"yeah but your fox person doesn't even gender, that's kind of neat..."

"what does that have to do with anything!?"

"*stares at the camera like she's on a 1960's Japanese version of the office where strict gender roles literally ruin her life*"

QZ Productions @qzproductions.bsky.social · 6d

Japanese teenagers will rule the world

a shitty crayon-like drawing of Hinako from Silent Hill f and the main character of Elysian. the MC of Elysian says "Why does YOUR fox person get to be HOT!? Mine's just WEIRD!!" while Hinako is just. experiencing the horrors

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QZ Productions @qzproductions.bsky.social · 7d

FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH pay no attention to fact that Elysian also features a smart aleck Japanese schoolgirl encountering a weird person in a fox mask I swear to god I wrote this like 5 years ago lmfao

QZ Productions @qzproductions.bsky.social · 7d

tfw you were gonna do some big time editing on your visual novel's script but you got distracted by the new Silent Hill game instead 💀

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QZ Productions @qzproductions.bsky.social · 8d

Also you can unlock certain gallery images by clearing a certain amount of or type of ending, as a treat 😘

QZ Productions @qzproductions.bsky.social · 8d

...the full story (each route has its own "True Ending" that wraps things up and the MC's arc doesn't change too much between them) but if you want to learn The Deep Lore about every character, you will by doing so. It's a bit similar to what I did in Turovero in that regard.

QZ Productions @qzproductions.bsky.social · 8d

LRP I can see that yeah, you may not be interested in ALL of the characters or lore so it's fine to just play what you're interested in. Some stories absolutely do benefit from going through everything though. I'm hoping Elysian has a good balance of both; you don't have to play it all to get...

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Kimimi🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️, but spooky 🦇 @kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com · 8d

I'm going to embarrass myself and admit I don't get why the prevailing wisdom is visual novels/dating sims, etc. are only complete after clearing every route.

Game reacting to my decisions and ending accordingly? Magic.
Repeating until I've exhausted every choice? That's a checklist, not a story.

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QZ Productions @qzproductions.bsky.social · 9d

There are two types of characters a creator makes, the first is the “I hope you love them as much as I do” type and the second is the “I hope you despise them with every fiber of your being” type

QZ Productions @qzproductions.bsky.social · 12d

in any case it does help me to remind myself "not everyone is as passionate about your project as you and that's not only okay, but sometimes necessary for improvement" so #gamedev #indiedev s who also struggle with rejection sensitivity, maybe that will help y'all too lol

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QZ Productions @qzproductions.bsky.social · 12d

One time someone slammed Prom Dreams for having too much text / dialogue though and I was like ???? because have you NEVER played a story-heavy game in your life lol

that's the kind of feedback we can all ignore, the "7.8 too much water" feedback, if you will

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QZ Productions @qzproductions.bsky.social · 12d

Getting critical feedback for your work is a bit tough on my AuDHD ass but it does speak for how much my rejection sensitivity's improved

"ease up on the ellipses" and "could be more specific about your intended framing of X theme" don't mean I'm the worst author since whoever wrote My Immortal lol

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QZ Productions @qzproductions.bsky.social · 16d

this came to me in a dream

the little guy with the big eyes staring into the camera meme except it's Philip

QZ Productions @qzproductions.bsky.social · 17d

Same thing happened when I started getting Turovero's artwork I got SO nervous opening up those emails for no real reason lol

QZ Productions @qzproductions.bsky.social · 17d

Anyone else who works with artists get the jitters when you start to see the drafts of your characters like "WAIT THOSE ARE MY BABIES!!" and the shock of seeing them in better quality than potato... like I have to psyche myself up to review them lmfao

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QZ Productions @qzproductions.bsky.social · 18d

Hi, I couldn't find a way to DM you but I've been reaching out to smaller streamers that cover RPG Maker games and/or visual novels to see if they'd be interested in checking out mine. They are a bit long-ish but may be up your alley! Feel free to DM me if interested (or don't if you're not lol)

QZ Productions @qzproductions.bsky.social · 19d

I couldn't find a way to message you privately but I'm reaching out to streamers who may be interested in checking out my games, they're indie and spooky although a bit on the long side. 👀 Feel free to DM me if interested or ignore me if you're not lol

QZ Productions @qzproductions.bsky.social · 19d

I couldn't find a way to DM you but I'm reaching out to Vtubers/PNGstubers/etc. who might be interested in taking a crack at my games, they're longer story-based RPG Maker games that might be up your alley based on your channel 👀 Feel free to DM me if interested! (or ignore this if you're not lol)

QZ Productions @qzproductions.bsky.social · 19d

I couldn't find a way to message you privately but I'm trying to reach out to streamers who do Horror RPGs to see if they'd be interested in playing mine 👀 feel free to DM me if you are (or ignore this if you're not lol)

QZ Productions @qzproductions.bsky.social · 20d

how it feels to try and promo your games to content creators

"can I try rizzing you up" "sure, LOL" "PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE x100"

QZ Productions @qzproductions.bsky.social · 21d

Thanks! I thought it'd be harder than it ended up being lol