Thanks for 600,000+ downloads on the Scratchin' Melodii demo! I feel like I'm on the right track now, so reminder that there will be no more public demos of the game. From here, I'll just be focusing on finishing the full game and I'll try to occasionally show some progress too!
"Get ready, Melodii..."
Here's a first-look preview of a new Scratchin' Melodii rival battle, Supastar Tennis! 🎾🌟
If all goes according to schedule, it should be playable in the SAGE 2023 demo of the game. (Early September!)
"For anyone who's been waiting for a reason to get funky, this reason's covered in cream cheese icing..."
Here's an early look at the redone version of Cream Cheese Icing in Scratchin' Melodii!
"Fever means it's hot, baby, four pops makes a chain"
Here's a preview of Rensa's rival battle in Scratchin' Melodii, Sidechain Fever! 🧙🏾♀️🟢
Feat. Jordo Price as MC Bean Machine, and a pixel art sequence from Marceline Gainsboro!
Be sure to check out the SAGE '23 demo on Sept 1st!
Apparently Melodii's gender/lack-thereof has been a bit of a topic again. So just to publicly squash any and all misconceptions, Melodii is non-binary. It's not meant to be an "up to interpretation" sort of thing, Melodii's a character with their own identity.💛🤍💜🖤
The SAGE 2022 demo of Scratchin' Melodii is out NOW!! Here's a look at Nami's rival battle, "Nami.WAV" featuring
@EliseMeggie
voicing Nami! I hope you all enjoy the demo and all the other great entries at the expo!
Just a cute little PSA on the difference between when something from a video game is "leaked", and when you're given a preview of it. There has never been a "Scratchin' Melodii leak" lol
SURPRISE! Christmas SAGE IS HERE! A limited one time only expo running from December 8th to 15th with over 50 games for you to check out! We have streamers, new interviews and tons of artworks from several artists for everyone to look at! More info below.
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It takes a lot of tweaks and practice for me to get my character designs to a point where I'm satisfied with them. The little details count! Here's some of the thought process that went into finalizing Melodii's, mostly focusing on their silhouette.
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It's depressing that some ppl have the nerve to make conspiracy theories about me "lying" about Melodii because they, a fictional child, have a high pitched voice and pink headphones. If you knew me as much as you thought you did, you'd know pink is just one of my favorite colors
Thanks for over 70k downloads of the Scratchin' Melodii demo! Lots of time will be spent working on new content and improving old content, can't wait for you to see and hear it all! 'Til then, a new update is out to hopefully leave it in a more solid state. Here are the changes!
I've just posted a new development progress checkup in the Scratchin' Melodii devlog! I'll have it linked below. (TLDR; The demo's postponed to later this year and will probably be the last demo. Everything else will be saved for the full game.)
Thinking about how in the Donkey Kong Country cartoon DK never got to explain to anyone that it was Krusha imitating his voice to flirt with Dixie and everyone just thinks he really did that for the rest of the series
The rhythm system in Scratchin' Melodii has changed quite a bit since the 2022 demo. I definitely would like to improve the in-game tutorial in the full game, but for now I thought I'd take some time to explain some of it in a thread!
Melodii always was and always will be genderless and nonbinary, but in terms of their pronouns, until now I've gone on record saying they use "any pronouns". After some thought, I've finally decided Melodii's pronouns are ONLY "they/them" now for multiple reasons. [Thread]
Some upcoming changes to the UI, now there's a big icon that flips whenever a turn changes, and the amount of beat dots will correspond to how long the line is
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Before the demo releases at SAGE 2021 tomorrow, here's a full (for now probably lol) look at "Grease Poppin' (VS. Synthz McWave)", the first boss battle in my rhythm game Scratchin' Melodii!
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While any pronouns are fine for them, blatantly calling them a boy or girl would be incorrect. Tbh I'm not entirely sure what people see that makes them think "girl" so often exactly lol, I really just didn't have a gender in mind for Melodii and prefer it that way
A little preview footage of a rhythm game I've been slowly working on in the background! I like barely know what I'm doing but it seems to be working so far lmao
I mean this in the nicest way possible but if you only bring up Scratchin' Melodii when you're looking for something to replace FNF for you, I don't think you'll find what you're looking for here. I'd much rather prefer ppl enjoy my game out of love for it than spite for another.
Hey everyone! Unfortunately, due to personal life matters, I'll have to indefinitely delay the release of the SAGE 2023 demo of Scratchin' Melodii. There's a chance it may still appear there before the end of the expo, but no promises. My apologies, I hope you'll all understand🙏
Another hotfix for Scratchin' Melodii is out to fix a few new bugs in Grease Poppin' and the QuickGroove menu. Sorry about having to do these so close together! If you notice anything else, let me know.
I usually avoid qrting these but I'd like to clear some things up. The point of my Scratchin' Melodii demos are to gather testing/feedback so I can improve the final game. It's not supposed to be "The next FNF" or a rhythm game Fortnite battle pass. It's a demo right now.
Scratchin' Melodii has an official website now. (scratchin-melodii dot com) Not much goin' on there atm, but know that it's real! Feel free to stop by. 🎹🛹
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Well YouTube is already flagging my animations as "for kids" and plans to remove comments, notifications, and personalized ads for my channel in January due to the use of animated characters and if I don't comply I could be fined $42000 per video by the FTC so uh who's comin
Good morning!
There's a new Scratchin' Melodii development progress checkup on my blog and Itch io devlog. Still not sure how often I'll do these but I hope it's nice to know how things are going!
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Just a heads up: The demo is TECHNICALLY available right now, BUT I've been made aware of some bugs I still need to work out. Feel free to go for it, but I'm gonna (try to) drop a patch later today, along with a more proper announcement and rundown of what's changed since 2022!
This website (as per usual) is under peculiar circumstances, so I'll once again remind you that you can easily keep up with the development progress of Scratchin' Melodii on its official website, Discord server, and my Tumblr page, which I'll have all linked below. 🧵
Sonic, SpongeBob, and Diddy Kong are all best friends nowadays and it makes me look at Mario and laugh. Isn't Mario supposed to be the "friendly plumber"? That's the narrative our fanbase has been stringing along, right? Where are YOUR friends, huh wahoo man? Gonna cry?
No offense but it'd be nice if I could check out new Scratchin' Melodii fanart without seeing ppl be like "S'M is SO dead I knew this would happen in a week 😏" everyday as if demos of unfinished indie games are just supposed to foster an active community for years at a time now
I appreciate all love towards my game, and I can't control people, but do just keep in mind that when you unironically use a game with a smaller following to dunk on a game with a large fanbase, it usually leads to that larger fanbase bashing the small game to defend their own
Also, PSA about some of the bugs in this demo:
It seems a good chunk of the bugs people are experiencing are due to low framerates and lag. I'm not finished with all the optimization yet, so unfortunately if you have a lower end computer you are likely to have issues
If you were waiting for the first wave of bugfixes to be done, the new Scratchin' Melodii demo is available NOW on itch io for Christmas SAGE! Here's a short video of what to expect.
I can't believe I was misfortuned with seeing this post today do people actually think that this isn't lighting and somebody at Sega is just somehow texturing only half of the bush leaves like they were given a 3d photoshop airbrush
Also for the record, Melodii was never intended to look "feminine". Their design was partly inspired by Alex Kidd. Alex Kidd is a boy, but when I was little I couldn't tell what Alex Kidd's gender was and I thought that was really cool :)
1.) All of the in-game dialogue referring to them only uses they/them and I feel it's unreasonable to expect players to know something that isn't implied in-game
2.) I'm not comfortable with how some ppl only call them she/her just to avoid acknowledging that they're nonbinary 🦍
@R0YAL_BOY
Well ACTUALLY in the end of the final parties of both PaRappa games, PaRappa gets his own lines to start out for the audience to repeat as symbolism for how far he's come in his journey and how "The student has become the master"
Out of curiosity, how many of you see Melodii's sweater as pink? I've always considered it red, I just tend to prefer using softer color palettes, similar to how Knuckles appears in some Sonic games.
For those who may be concerned about Scratchin' Melodii and aren't caught up on the Unity runtime fee situation, Unity ended up deciding that games made in Unity versions earlier than the 2024 LTS ver will remain unaffected. Development is continuing as planned. (Image unrelated)
PSA: If I upload the Scratchin' Melodii OST to any more streaming platforms, you'll hear about it here first. Any other uploads of it I had nothing to do with and will deal with accordingly. The songs will come to Spotify when I'm ready to get them there, be patient.
I hope you guys don't expect Scratchin' Melodii to be some kind of "live service" with active updates and stuff rn. Keep in mind that when I release demos it's mostly to receive feedback and make sure everything's working! I still don't consider the game to be even "out" yet lol
I sincerely apologize if I've further complicated things by making a slight retcon here, but it's better sooner than later. Sometimes, I'm getting to know these characters along the way just like you are.
Sorry to disappoint, but when I was designing Rensa, I was not inspired by The Loud House's "Titan Luz" or FNF's Mommy Mearest, she's just supposed to be a brown woman with natural hair LOL
Anywho, I'll try to post a Melodii progress checkup this month! (Image mostly unrelated)