I like hololive
i just dump thoughts about hololive and or game development and sometimes fan art here. *not a place for news or details about the game
Now that it's been a few weeks of learning about them, my current idea for Fuwamoco in HoloCure:
You only play as Mococo. There's a half transparent Fuwawa that floats around following you, and all she does is yell commands at you with no other effect
(This is 100% a joke)
Now that we've revealed holo Indie part and can confirm that we miraculously got all 9 talents to agree to lend their voice, the title call at the end of the teaser is actually a bit of a painful memory for me.
Let me explain -
One thing I'd like to share
I wanted to respect all talent's time as they are all very busy, so when I requested voice lines, I gave them a very small amount. I gave Kaela like maybe 15 lines
She gave me 85 files total
otsulemao!!! sudden Grindstone collab, ended up with totally not 12 hours stream 🤏 btw, play the game now! its very fuuuuun🤞and yeah, that blacksmith in the game need to git gud 👊
#Kaelaif
i'm gonna expose her
when I received the voice recordings, I legit asked the same thing - "eh? who is this????"
this was all her decision y'all I didn't ask for anything specific
kaela always says she is cool, not cute, then gives us this
I am certain now that if I were to put basic math in HoloCure as a mechanic or challenge
it's going to become the hardest content in the game
I know what I must do
With Holo Indie being a thing, my hope is that more creators are encouraged to make more amazing new holo fan games.
But in secret my ulterior motive is that more amazing holo fan games will keep Kaela distracted away from holocure and my safety
I am very, very sorry for not having online be ready for release. We really, REALLY tried our absolute best down to the last minutes, but we knew it wasn't anywhere near ready.
I failed to manage the online development properly
It is completely my failure.
Sorry.
Oh I have a request to holo clippers
If you want to make a clip of a holo talent playing the update reacting to the new content, could I please ask yous to censor or spoiler tag the thumbnail and title, so that other players don't get spoiled?
I'd truly appreciate it, thanks!
As the youngest of 3 siblings, I've always been given the most preferential treatment. And I hear it's very common for the youngest child to be the favorite
Now that I have a second child,
I understand it now.
I'm so sorry HoloCure...
also this is a very very important note
in the title of "Holo X Break"
The X is silent
that is all
but if you ever say out loud "Holo ECKKSSS Break" you will be banished to the shadow realm
Yes you saw right, we drew over 140 emotes for this game.
As soon as we had the thought of including emote system for online play, I knew I wanted to showcase the beautiful work of the artists in the hololive community. It was a chance to bring all the people I knew together
Just want to say on record that unfortunately, we do not and can not endorse mods for HoloCure.
Please be advised if you download and use any builds of HoloCure that doesn't come from the source Steam or Itch page. It might affect your save file in ways we don't intend.
I was extremeeeeely excited when they told me about this initiative.
I've already decided that HoloCure will stay exactly as is, so this doesn't affect us (and Cover is 100% okay with that), but I'm super happy that all fellow fan-game devs now have official support. Massive W
was eating at a restaurant when the owner saw my shirt and said "nice river city girls shirt! really enjoyed that game"
almost instinctively said "glad to hear it thank you for playing!" but I refuse to talk about what i do so I ended up awkwardly saying "it was...g..good!" 😭
An incredible roguelike and fighting game pushed one of the biggest companies in vtubing to make its own game publisher, and now hololive's buried in over 50 ideas
Goals for 2024:
- release HoloCure 0.7
- release HoloCure 0.8
- complete ?????? 🙂
- stop taking on more than 2 anime jobs at a time FOR REAL FOR REAL
- focus on drawing personal illustrations again
- animate personal stuff again and revive my art twitter
I was just watching ririka play and
WHAT
THE HECKKKK
IS THIS????
SINCE WHENNNNNNN
Shut the game down, pull it from the download pages, emergency hotfix immediately this is literally unplayable
Whaaaa thank you very much, OTK Game awards!!
As a simple fan game, we don't know if we really deserve an honor like this, but we are truly grateful.
The only way we know how to show our appreciation is by continuing as usual - making the game even better with future updates!
So far this year we released 0.5 in Feb and 0.6 in August.
Part of me knows I take too long between updates. If I can't finish a 3rd update in 1 year, it makes me feel incompetent, WEAK, PATHETIC
If we really push it, I think we can do 0.7 before 2023.
HOWEVER-
The lesson from the new Parasocial game is that you should be careful of downloading sus fan games made by one of your viewers that could be harmful malware in disguise
i have a confession
after Reine's 3D
I went and changed her HoloCure character's value from a grade 3 to a 4
(the value that's used for certain weapons)
The cat is out of the bag now
please allow me to explain who got early access to HoloCure update 0.6 this time with this following comic based on the very true events
the answer is literally everyone
Am I allowed to take an extended break from game development after this upcoming week 😔
I've been focusing so much on code, fixing bugs, and fine tuning numbers for the game that I'm genuinely starting to forget I do artist first and foremost 🙃🙃
I've worked with a dozen of different Japanese studios and companies now
One thing in common among ALL of them -
Japanese staff replying to DMs and emails at 4-5 AM, japan time
and i'm just sad bro
Lately I've been considering starting a new game project, a side SIDE project for fun. It'd be an original game just as a breather so I don't get sick of HoloCure
And man do I suddenly have an urge to learn to use the Godot engine
@kaelakovalskia
oh before I forget
you are not allowed to play this game unless you have one other person at least!!!
and no you can not do kaela with kaela collab!!!!
manager-san don't let her play by herself!!!
Now that the development work is done, for these last 2 weeks I'm just playing and testing the game for final tweaks and bug fixing
I was hit with a sudden realization -
Dang HoloCure is kinda fun huh
das crazy
I sat there for 30 minutes contemplating if I was mentally ready to accept these 9 talents will listen to my CRINGE ASS trying to voice act and say the title the same way y'all heard it
Eventually I manned up and did it, but I feel like I lost a piece of myself that day 😭😭😭😭
I wanna share a thought about the recent Ui-sensei MV that's been explosively popular.
It goes without saying the dance animation is god tier, but what really floored me was when I learned who the animator is that made it - Gagame-sensei
I have never felt more embarrassed in my entire life than that moment. My shame died. I'll never live it down it's over for me
Anyway, I wonder if there's another voice in this game not revealed yet 🙂
Some bad news regarding the Steam Achievements.
Steam games are limited to 100 achievements. Even from 0.5 we already have more than 100, so we won't be able to put all achievements in just yet.
For now, we're going to leave out the character-achievements.
omg this is so cute and it's only a work in progress😭😭😭
everyone on the dev team (including myself) are actual garbage at house decoration
this is legit the first house I've seen using our system that looks GOOD
I can't wait to see how y'all's houses!
When Kaela was trying Stage 3 Hard, she mentioned not being sure if it was possible without gachikoi
Funny thing about that:
When we playtest difficulty, we play it with 0 G.ranks, fandom off, minimum reccommended shop upgrades, and no super items
3 Hard beat our asses in
it's ironic
the one regret I have with starting and working on HoloCure is that I no longer have any time to simp for the girls individually via making fan art/animations for them ):
I miss drawing animations to celebrate their milestones with them
I miss drawing foobs
sometimes I see chats talking about HoloCure and then suddenly someone throws out some completely wild misinformation regarding what's coming or what I've said and I'm like, HUH
if there's no straight source from me, please take it with a massive grain of salt, a whole salt rock
I've always said that I really love working for Studio Bind on their animes, but I guess the feelings mutual
A staff asked for my address, and surprised me with this heavy box full of mushoku tensei and onimai merch...
This is the nicest thing a studio has ever done for me 😭
When I sent in the request to staff for each of the talents to say the title, they wanted to make sure it was easy for the talents to record and say the title exactly how it's meant to be said...
So they asked me... to record myself saying it as an example for them...
Also wanted to thank the others that helped!!!
I went and stole:
David Wu (Delivering Hope)
nullrefrepro
fie ('holodungeon', 'deadbeat encore')
Baiyuu, animator (Idol Showdown)
Janken Pomme, QA (many games)
eufrik, composer (HoloCure)
NeonCryptid, composer (Flare NUINUI Quest)
the number 1 fear of releasing a new game
oh god what if all of a sudden everything inexplicably breaks and the game explodes and nothing works anymore, for literally no reason
you never know
I took a break from HoloCure and have been busy working on a whole bunch of other work projects lately, some of which y'all will be excited about (:
But we're slowly cooking with update 0.7. Once again it's a massive update that will be bigger than everything before.
I've seen a number of people bring it up, so I'd like to talk a bit about it
It's a very old game, but I played a lotttttttttt of Little Fighters 2 when I was a kid. It is the main inspiration for Holo X Break's gameplay
As I was a FF14 andy, I started following Asmon back from when he started playing 14 so I knew how his chat can be towards anime/weeby games
I expected the worst, but when he reacted to the trailer, the chat and the comments on this video are all very positive. I was surprised
We'll still do some minor bug fixes here and there but it's time we officially wrap up HoloCure update 0.6 work. It's finally overrrrrrrrr
Now it's time for me to transition from game dev mode back to animator mode. Got a pile of animation work waiting for me🙃
Not gonna spoil anything but holy FKCKCKCKC Holo X Brekkie's soundtrack is so GOOD
I reaaaaaaaaaaaaally can't wait for y'all to hear all the tracks in this game
me playing through the whole game like
another 4 am tweet
can I be real with y'all frfr
I know Cure is the better game... but in terms of visuals and design, I think Break blows Cure out of the water, to the point it's painful for me to go back and look at Cure's visuals lmaooooooo 😭😭😭😭
Before this year, I avoided Taco Bell for my entire life
I tried it once this year and learned how quick and convenient it is to eat 3 tacos and get back to work. And now I order it way too often
The question is, how many times can one eat Taco Bell before you just die
As the game is finally ready to be released, I go touch grass for the first time in over a month and just breathe for the day
Damn this what the sun feels like
the entirety of Holo House became an idea while in the shower - it was a literal shower thought
I have a lot of shower thoughts about the game when actually in the shower
I take showers every day
maybe I should stop showering so much
Wanted to talk about the more technical side of Holo X Break and the primary reason the project started at all
This thread is more on the nerdy development side of things, so it may not be interesting to most of y'alls