🐬Slipstream Daydreams🐬 [visual novel]
@slipstreamdaydream.bsky.social
hi!! im villain/30s/🏴/🏳️⚧️! i like ocs, tokusatsu, and music!
🏁 ssdd is a visual novel about messy queer love in the world of anti-gravity racing
🌁 it's inspired by the visuals of racing games and y2k futurism
☁️ DIY it yourself!! no A/I!!
🏁 ssdd is a visual novel about messy queer love in the world of anti-gravity racing
🌁 it's inspired by the visuals of racing games and y2k futurism
☁️ DIY it yourself!! no A/I!!
i've been thumbnailing my key art for use as a steam capsule! thumbnailing for a big piece is always a lot of work for very slow messy results, but now i've got it nailed down (i'm using the last one) i can jump into the full illustration and it's downhill from here! #vndev #indiedev #ocsky
December 8, 2025 at 11:46 PM
october's task was implementing sound and music throughout SSDD! the trickiest part of it was getting the timers to play a ticking sound - did you know vboxes dont pass "show" events? 💀 thanks to a couple folk's help in the devtalk server i got it working though ✌️
#vndev #renpy
#vndev #renpy
November 4, 2025 at 3:09 PM
October 18, 2025 at 4:12 PM
i also made the decision to swap the light blue in Capital's palette for black - people kept thinking he was on the same team as Orion which is definitely on me for making their image colours both blue 🤦 i think the tweak fits his regal impression better, and it feels more mature.
before | after
before | after
October 13, 2025 at 4:15 PM
i also made the decision to swap the light blue in Capital's palette for black - people kept thinking he was on the same team as Orion which is definitely on me for making their image colours both blue 🤦 i think the tweak fits his regal impression better, and it feels more mature.
before | after
before | after
really excited to share my first complete character sprite 🗣️
Capital has six expressions with two eyes and three mouths each, for ace attorney style mouth flaps and blinks! this was a lot of work (more than i anticipated💦) but i think the resulting polish is well worth it #vndev #ocsky
Capital has six expressions with two eyes and three mouths each, for ace attorney style mouth flaps and blinks! this was a lot of work (more than i anticipated💦) but i think the resulting polish is well worth it #vndev #ocsky
September 29, 2025 at 1:39 PM
i'm working on Capital's sprites - i haven't replaced the sketch version of his blink asset yet, so currently his eyebrows flash red to ward away predators 😭
September 26, 2025 at 4:52 PM
i'm working on Capital's sprites - i haven't replaced the sketch version of his blink asset yet, so currently his eyebrows flash red to ward away predators 😭
hi roach! im villain! i like this jester guy, whats their story? im working on a y2k inspired visual novel about anti-gravity racing and queer love. here's a recent background, and a wip of the sprite for my guy Capital 🩷🐬 #artshare
September 25, 2025 at 10:27 PM
hi roach! im villain! i like this jester guy, whats their story? im working on a y2k inspired visual novel about anti-gravity racing and queer love. here's a recent background, and a wip of the sprite for my guy Capital 🩷🐬 #artshare
another background for my vn! it was fun coming up with clutter for this kitschy interview set 🛼🐬🚀 for this one i modelled the shelves in blender and traced them - work smarter not harder 😘
(empty shelves will be covered by sprites, dont worry) #vndev
(empty shelves will be covered by sprites, dont worry) #vndev
September 16, 2025 at 11:26 AM
another background for my vn! it was fun coming up with clutter for this kitschy interview set 🛼🐬🚀 for this one i modelled the shelves in blender and traced them - work smarter not harder 😘
(empty shelves will be covered by sprites, dont worry) #vndev
(empty shelves will be covered by sprites, dont worry) #vndev
let me toot my own horn - i'm psyched at how well this came out! ~12 hours from sketch to completion (starting from a coloured thumbnail), hopefully i can lower that for less complex bgs 💪🐬 #vndev
August 22, 2025 at 11:29 AM
let me toot my own horn - i'm psyched at how well this came out! ~12 hours from sketch to completion (starting from a coloured thumbnail), hopefully i can lower that for less complex bgs 💪🐬 #vndev
this week's update - sketch for a racetrack background! showing the part where the hardlight track joins a road 🐬🏁
August 21, 2025 at 11:33 PM
this week's update - sketch for a racetrack background! showing the part where the hardlight track joins a road 🐬🏁
lineart was the way to go after all! here's the final background art - i'm actually satisfied now. i really wanted crisp, clean shapes with lots of bright colour and gradients of light. also because i am using fixed width lines, i was able to use the pen tool to help with the big curves! #vndev
August 11, 2025 at 11:52 PM
lineart was the way to go after all! here's the final background art - i'm actually satisfied now. i really wanted crisp, clean shapes with lots of bright colour and gradients of light. also because i am using fixed width lines, i was able to use the pen tool to help with the big curves! #vndev
back in may i started rendering. my plan was to do something lineless, as this is a style i'd used before and it was fast.
…wrong. 🤦 while it was fast for quick character art, getting an environment to look as clean and crisp as the setting demanded was slow. time for a different approach…! #vndev
…wrong. 🤦 while it was fast for quick character art, getting an environment to look as clean and crisp as the setting demanded was slow. time for a different approach…! #vndev
August 11, 2025 at 11:49 PM
back in may i started rendering. my plan was to do something lineless, as this is a style i'd used before and it was fast.
…wrong. 🤦 while it was fast for quick character art, getting an environment to look as clean and crisp as the setting demanded was slow. time for a different approach…! #vndev
…wrong. 🤦 while it was fast for quick character art, getting an environment to look as clean and crisp as the setting demanded was slow. time for a different approach…! #vndev
i thumbnailed out all the bgs for my alpha demo. super rough but that's all it needed to be, and i didnt worry about iterating multiple times - just went with my gut. here's the restaurant from capital's route in its earliest iteration! #vndev
August 11, 2025 at 11:44 PM
i thumbnailed out all the bgs for my alpha demo. super rough but that's all it needed to be, and i didnt worry about iterating multiple times - just went with my gut. here's the restaurant from capital's route in its earliest iteration! #vndev
i was struggling for ages on what i wanted to do for my background art - i did PAGES of various ways of editing photobashes to try and cut corners, but none of them had the look i wanted. these are experiments from way back in september and october last year #vndev
August 11, 2025 at 11:39 PM
i was struggling for ages on what i wanted to do for my background art - i did PAGES of various ways of editing photobashes to try and cut corners, but none of them had the look i wanted. these are experiments from way back in september and october last year #vndev
my first goal for this month was to design the logo! y2k inspired graphic design is a huge part of Slipstream Daydreams's visual identity, so I really wanted to nail this one! ☁️ #vndev
May 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
my first goal for this month was to design the logo! y2k inspired graphic design is a huge part of Slipstream Daydreams's visual identity, so I really wanted to nail this one! ☁️ #vndev
great little tip i learned - "if config.developer" is useful for stopping test menus from showing up in final builds of your game.
clicking start on the main menu jumps to a scene select menu for easy testing, but if you run an exported build it will go to the introduction scene!
#vndev #renpy
clicking start on the main menu jumps to a scene select menu for easy testing, but if you run an exported build it will go to the introduction scene!
#vndev #renpy
March 28, 2025 at 1:20 AM
during testing i discovered the only two times i messed up typing my expression names, they generated two perfect memes describing each character 😭 my bimbo and tsundere... #vndev
March 10, 2025 at 11:36 PM
during testing i discovered the only two times i messed up typing my expression names, they generated two perfect memes describing each character 😭 my bimbo and tsundere... #vndev
look. sometimes you try to draw a cute flirty expression and export it with full confidence and then you look at it in game and realise it looks like they've had five or eight shots of vodka instead.
March 8, 2025 at 7:58 PM
look. sometimes you try to draw a cute flirty expression and export it with full confidence and then you look at it in game and realise it looks like they've had five or eight shots of vodka instead.
more of these background art thumbs - its all fun and games til i actually have to render these, lol, but i now have all of the thumbnails for each section of track! there's quite a lot, but luckily i get to re-use them a lot because racing means you go in a circle. yknow. #vndev
March 4, 2025 at 12:02 AM
more of these background art thumbs - its all fun and games til i actually have to render these, lol, but i now have all of the thumbnails for each section of track! there's quite a lot, but luckily i get to re-use them a lot because racing means you go in a circle. yknow. #vndev
super rough thumbnails for some sections of the race track. luckily i get to re-use these as the story takes place over multiple laps. current plan is for about 9 different ones, plus some speed lines for action sequences not covered by these #vndev
February 6, 2025 at 6:58 PM
super rough thumbnails for some sections of the race track. luckily i get to re-use these as the story takes place over multiple laps. current plan is for about 9 different ones, plus some speed lines for action sequences not covered by these #vndev
hello bluesky! i'm here to talk about the development of my visual novel, Slipstream Daydreams. to kick us off here's an illustration from earlier this year of our protagonist, Orion! 🌸🐬
December 3, 2024 at 12:07 AM
hello bluesky! i'm here to talk about the development of my visual novel, Slipstream Daydreams. to kick us off here's an illustration from earlier this year of our protagonist, Orion! 🌸🐬