Welcome to Wishbone

A dev blog for Wishbone, a wild west-themed character drama/farming sim game. Made with RPG Maker VX Ace. Majority of game is complete, but currently unsure on the release date due to extra hours being scheduled at IRL job.

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For the March update, check out the shooting gallery minigame, finally done! Or… almost done. There are still a couple of bugs to iron out… as you might guess from the fact that the 45-second timer takes nearly a minute and 20 seconds to run out.

This minigame won’t be available at the start of the story–it’s only unlocked once you’ve become acquainted with the outlaw faction. Shoot targets featuring unflattering caricatures of the town officials while avoiding hapless critters… get a high enough score and you’ll unlock Hard Mode. Beat Hard Mode and you’ll win a special prize!

Other updates for this month include a greatly improved Quest Log that took way longer than expected and is the #1 reason this update is late. But hey, look at that! Quest deadlines!

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Every quest now shows the quest deadline associated with it, if there is one. The In Progress tab is even nice enough to order them by due date!

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The individual quest pages also show the deadline, along with how many times you’ve completed the quest this period (some smaller quests can be done a couple times per month/week/etc, for example). More importantly, the quest pages now support scrolling and quests with more than 10 steps. This is needed for major plot quests and the lengthy sidequests all the romancable characters get.

Other than that, I’ve been squashing bugs and working on the plot document, our composer has been composing, and our artist has been hard at work making more expression headshots. So pretty much the usual stuff!

By the way, you might wanna take a gander at the updated FAQ page. It contains some information about what sort of content warnings apply to the game and some clarification about its general themes/tone that may not be clear from the teasers we’ve released so far.

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Some cool retro Clue-style illustrations made by one of our character creators!

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check out @wishbonegame if you haven’t already

Some cool retro Clue-style illustrations made by one of our character creators!

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A little late for Valentine’s day, but here’s our update for February!

Figured it might be fun to have a different sort of update than “Yes I’m still working on behind the scenes stuff, no it’s not done yet, no I still don’t have any interesting screenshots to show off.” So here’s the full romancable character list and some character bios instead!

(Do note that there’s a little more than meets the eye to some of them… but you’ll have to play the game to find out!)

“So what’s going on with that plot doc thing, huh?”

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Man, who’d have thought 10+ romancable characters each having their own really long sidequest on top of and interwoven with the main story would take a long time to write? :|

Posted 2 months ago With 16 notes

Another new theme, this one entirely by Yurza!

We haven’t showed any screenshots of the area this tune is for yet, so you’ll have to use your imagination!

Posted 2 months ago With 16 notes

Here’s one of the new tracks! This is based on a tune by @rattyarts, modified and finished up by Yurza (who does not presently have a music account for me to link).

This particular one will be used as a character theme in plot-related cutscenes. :)

Posted 2 months ago With 9 notes

January Update!

This one’s a little late because I was sick. Damn flu season! Those things are nasty, even if you’re vaccinated.

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Anyway, not a huge update this time around–once again, most of the stuff we’ve been doing isn’t stuff that can be shown, and progress has been a little slow due to the holidays, the aforementioned flu, and the fact that I’ve been indulging in a lot of Red Dead Redemption 2 lately. But there are some screenshots for you under the cut!

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Smile for the camera, everyone! …Or… maybe not…

To start off our December update, check out these fantastic expression headshots @kwillow has made for us! There’s, uh, kind of a lot of characters in this game, and they’re quite expressive, so this is a pretty huge project. But things are coming along nicely, with both plenty of new headshots and some touch-ups made to older ones to make sure everything is consistent and in the same style. :]

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Before Tumblr pulls the plug forever are you guys going to be posting updates somewhere else?

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I’m just sitting tight here for the moment. This blog doesn’t have any NSFW content of any kind, so it’s not really effected by the rule change (though we’re gonna need to look through the blog and double check that all those sweet, sensual desert beiges and browns didn’t get something flagged by mistake)

Worst case scenario we might have to start a twitter, but that site’s format is really not suited to the kind of update posts we make here. I’m hopeful that I can stick with just this one blog for the time being. But if anything changes, we’ll be sure to let people know with an update post.

Posted 4 months ago With 8 notes

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November Update time! See under the cut for details.
[[MORE]]First off, as you can see up top, the quest log is undergoing a bit of a facelift. As the behind-the-scenes masterlist of story and sidequests has solidified, it has become clear that...

November Update time! See under the cut for details.

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