dev log

6/5/23

  • HEY I BROKE THE DISCORD INVITE LINK here's a fixed version :') [linky link]

5/28/23

  • Taking a break after that gigantic Sawyer update BUT. SNEAK PEEK look at what I'm tinkering with for the next update :3

5/24/23

5/22/23

  • REPLACEMENT LAPTOP ARRIVED, SAWYER EXPANSION BACK ON TRACK

5/21/23

  • Fun fact: my laptop died, BUT. The replacement is coming on Monday. AND. I'm thinking the Sawyer expansion can still go up on Thursday as long as it's not RIDDLED WITH HORRIED BUGS (so far so good though. normie amount of bugs.) GET YER ASS READY.

5/16/23

  • WHO'S BEEN LISTENING TO HYPERPOP FOR 16 HOURS AND SCRIPTING/IMPLENTING THE SAWYER EXPANSION??? THISSSS GGGGGGUYYYY I AM VERY NORMAL IT IS A VERY NORMAL HOUR OF THE DAY
  • sneak peek of everything in the Sawyer expansion so far:
  • New romance arc + storyline!
  • TWO exclusive Sawyer dates, one massive one with a bunch of extra secret features!
  • Three new interactable map objects! They're at the party, and - for future reference - they don't JUST work with you and Sawyer ;)
  • New tunes!
  • New outfits for Sawyer, including a new suit and sexy underwear!
  • Sawyer Makeout & Hookup minigames
  • UI (top/worst friends, etc)
  • Sawyer Character Card w/memories!
  • TONS of new Sawyer text messages to send/receive!
  • and of course I'll be spending the next week and a half or so implementing. the arduous. Prom integration. and everyone's contextual reactions to you and sawyer falling in llllloooOOOOOOVvee. Or falling in fuck, i don't make the rules. i hope you sawyer people are happy (i'm happy. as a sawyer guy i'm super happy actually).

5/10/23

  • Spent aaaalllLLLLLL night working out the kinks (pun intended) in the mechanics of Sawyer's hookup minigame. He's got four stages (unlike everyone else): position, foreplay, sliding into home base, and then (since he's toppy mc topperson) you have to tease him enough to get him to moneyshot, or he'll keep 'taking advantage' til he busts. yeeeop ;)
  • Put customized safewords in at each stage of everything Sawyer does so nobody gets accidentally railroaded (and ALSO so you can get off said railroad at any time, and STAY on if you want to crank it up to 11). He's got a couple extra kink settings you can contextually turn on/off (he asks if you like to be called X, asks male/nonbinary ID'd characters if it's cool to call you pretty, asks you beforehand what level of knife stuff roleplay you're into (from None Thanks to Slice Me Up Scotty).
  • Wrapping up the actual text on the last 3 moneyshot scenes and last 2 foreplay scenarios and then Sawyer's core makeout/hookup mechanics are DONE BABY

5/6/23

  • *tugs collar* what's. uh. what's good slasher nation i beefed it last night here's a quick fix for that horrible keylock bug [v3.77]

5/6/23

  • WHAT'S FUCKIN GOOD SLASHER NATION IT'S 2AM AND I FIXED A TON OF UI BUGS BABEYYY [v3.76]

5/3/23

  • New build went up yesterday with major going-steady bugfixes! [v3.75]
  • 246+ downloads and counting yeehaaaaaw
  • Hex drew you a map of Slasher U! What a sweet guy!
  • as always dumb shit and shenanigans are happening on the tumblr
  • finished designing/writing Sawyer's Makeout Minigame and 1/3rd of his Hookup Minigame! Hope you like getting railed all the way into the next century cause hooooo boy
  • fixing more bugs for the next build! Hoping to have it up over/right after the weekend so if you catch anything, pop it in there
  • design change: gonna be implementing more triggerable cutscenes that count towards triggering prom season I think!

4/30/23

4/28/23

  • WE HIT 100 DOWNLOADS ON LAUNCH DAY FRIENDOS I AM OVER THE FUCKIN MOON KAHDJKSHDKJA I HOPE YOU LIKE MY FUCKING VIDEO GAME
  • I lost my mind and wrote 3/4ths of the Sawyer makeout minigame. Hope you like power tops cuz this thing's the ultimate bottoming simulator yayyy Sawyer
  • wait shit I totally forgot there's a Slasher U tumblr now

4/14/23

  • UPDATEZ CHUNK!!:
  • Closed Alpha running smoothly, which means we're looking at a fuckin OPEN ALPHA ACT 1 LAUNCH THE WEEK AFTER 4/20 AHAHAHAHHAHAH YEAAAAHHHH BOYYYY
  • Future devlog updates will be mirrored on my Itch.io too!
  • Added Sawyer into the promo banner. I am SO SORRY Sawyer, I have NO IDEA why you were not in the OG edition. Please don't kill me in a non-sexy way.
  • REACH GOALS for future Act II & III settled: Actual composer for SU music, with the exception of Tate's romance theme & the opening EDM theme to Prom, because I've gotten unreasonably attached to those tunes and if Hex doesn't come barrelling into Prom dressed like Dumb & Dumber doing the default human dance from WoW to this song I'll eat my whole ass hat
  • REACH GOAL 2: Sawyer Romance Arc. I had to cut him from Act 1 because it was getting loaded and feature creep-y but Sawyer's consensual murder arc is something I REALLY wanna bring back. If there's time, I'd love for him to get full Prom integration and a proper Act 2 & 3 arc too :')
  • REACH GOAL 3: Char Creation (more detailed). I've been tinkering with this CYOC stuff for char reactions and I love cosmetic items, AS YEW KNOW, so this is something that. er. may or may not happen because a smart dev knows he should pad out the Laila sex minigame FIRST before implementing NEW ASS FEATYRES but hey. guys. hey. wouldnt it be cool if *someone comes up from offscreen and smacks OP on the head*

3/1/23

2/23/23

  • Meet your student librarian, Kennedy Slicerhands:



  • Debugging even more! Pleased to announce nothing majorly gamebreaking so far except a complete kerfuffle when you overlap 2+ Hex dates by accident. beep boop D:

2/20/23

  • Destination: DEBUGTOWN! Population: THIS GUY!! Cleanup continues with rigorous bug testing!
  • fixed the lights on Prom encounters
  • added text on CharCards for when player is affected by temp effects
  • Snuck myself in as a backgrounder for the Hallway Running set/class, meet Prof. Plutonium, your worst radioactive nightmare



2/19/23

  • doing cleanup on Hex's specialist date (underwater gatsby totally-not-bioshock-themed party) and these screenshots just cracked me the fuck up:



  • finalized everyone's UI/debugged everyone's UI for hookup AND makeout minigames so it should allll be flowing smoothly. Added a setting for left or right aligned meters internally in case I change my mind re: the UI.
  • finished the scenarios/roleplays for Juno's hookup minigame! Holy shit guys I had to get REAL creative re: sex with a ghost. Juno would be proud.
  • spent the last couple weeks making/loading in/creating new map assets so everything's finally taking on that sweet sweet 90's adventure game feel (:


2/13/23

  • back on my bullshit, time to do more qa/bugfixing on this alpha baby! only two more major text minigames to finish filling out the flavor text for (Juno's sexytime minigame & Laila's makeout minigame) and the meat of the core mechanics will be totally fuckin 100% done, which I'm EXTREMELY FUCKING HYPED FOR


2/5/23

  • zooming along with cleanup!! hello new followers & everyone who signed up for the alpha i'm so fuckin excited to show you the game aaafgdfhsjfksh
  • Implementing a TON of edge case context events (mostly reaction events for my two timers in the audience)
  • Went a bit ham and gave Tate and Juno an extra sexytime minigame item unlock each
  • introducing: me, actually drawing assets for professors: Prof Xerxes!




1/23/23

  • More sprites!! man these are finicky. Can't believe I got the tiny "SU" on the back of Sawyer's jacket, either :V


1/22/23

  • Guys. GUYS. SPRITES. SPRITES YALL


1/20/23

  • New UI adventures in colorful tic tac vibez, plus, meet Slasher U's resident leatherworking TA, Jenny:





  • you can now pick from several different shadow cuties when selecting your appearance (not tied to your gender)!




  • (also continuing massive cleanup & gutting useless items)

1/16/22

  • More makeout/horny meter assets: Guess whose is whose :V (left to right: juno, hex, tate, laila)
  • also i lost my mind somewhere along the way and the meters do this: Tate's turns purple when you get him in Extra Spicy mode, Laila's upgrades to look even more wicked/painful the more you hook up with her, Hex's has two versions: basic & extra cute, for when you get him to be the best boy <333
  • Introducing the MAKEOUT METER: Finally! A visual representation of how horny your partner is getting!




  • ok i'm adding a guestbook to the site everybody be cool
  • hellphone: added text-back frameworks for sawyer & horsmike
  • hellphone: actually finished writing in the text for text-backs for "what's up" + "wyd ;);)" for tate, laila, & juno. Each subject (e.g. "what's up") elicits one of at least 3 randomized text responses that change based on your relationship to the NPC/their feelings towards you (: I made it an override so you don't get the same 3 low-level texts when you hit bonetown with someone
  • also hey everyone look at this prom outfit i drew for melyssa :VVVVVVV


  • all right one last thing: today's the fuckin day i am gathering screenshots. watch me. WATCH ME


1/11/22

  • jazzed up the start screen while i'm fixing bugs :v




1/8/22

  • overhauled the items so instead of doing Essentially Nothing they provide temp & perm char bonuses, e.g. if you slather yourself in axe body spray, hex & mike will be super into it but laila will absolutely find you less attractive. hooray narrative consequences
  • added title cards/main quest triggers for all 4 act I chars' main quests! aaa we're flying at top speed

1/6/22

  • feel like i'm done with the writing for Tate's Act I storyline possibilities so i'm v v v excited one of my weird little guys is almost done. also cannot believe that my weird little guy shares a name with a massive asshole lmao. my tate's named after tate/the parasite from Monster Prom ):
  • zooming forward with getting the last of the basic frameworx for the romance quests in act i (and trying not to get too carried away with implementing some of the non-story-gated stuff all at once)
  • still procrastinating taking new screenshots augh i just wanna implement everything first. s2g I won't wait til i drop the act i alpha before i put new ones up aughhhajkfhajsfhkj

1/3/22

  • doing a shitton of cleanup & adding to flavor stuff while I avoid writing some of the more finicky fill text but i just wanted to show you my test overlays for DARK TATE


12/31/22

  • U is for UI (:






12/26/22

  • testing out some UI ideas with temp assets (that i'm getting v attached to lmao)
  • tidied up a lite version of the basic sexytimez minigame into a makeout minigame (because you deserve a level of saucy difficulty when rounding first base).




12/24/22

  • finally finally doing some UI & quality of life changes, including character cards w/ your dateable cutie's memories, info, stats (er, "stats", like # of dates gone on & their feelings about you), and so on
  • holy crap we have ui, ladies n germz (pls excuse my bad line breaks i just got really excited)




12/19/22

  • spending the day centralizing systems that should've been centralized agessss ago. never spaghetti code unless you wanna spend the day getting real stoned and fixing your foolish problems

12/18/22

  • Drew/Implemented some more emotion assets for Sawyer into the mix
  • Implemented Sawyer's prom outfit, immediately regretting not jacking up the shadows more
  • Added a dialogue tree for Veronika during main quest phases 0 & 1 about her coffee shop job if you encounter her during the day
  • Made player's personality factor into dateable NPCs' FeelingsCheck

12/16/22

  • Made the story flags weighted for calulcating Feelings Check per character (more significant events add to the weight, etc)

12/15/22

  • continuing to implement checks/choices/rolls/fun things to choose from to convince NPCs to vote for whoever you like during Prom! 6x potential Prom winners x at least 2 choices each to convince x unique cutscenes per each outcome x reactions for each of 4 Prom dates per each outcome x 8 NPCs who can vote = infinite scripting nightmare zone for your main man
  • timed some gameplay and there's like 3 to 4 hours of content implemented already (with at least 1 of those hours being a x4 total replayable scenario that's gatekept to one each of the dateable NPCs per save game. ayyyyyyyyy)
  • implemented assetz for Veronika, Archie the Coffee Guy, & Melyssa

12/13/22

  • implemented a shitton of cutscene text & character reaction anims for the Prom slowdance scene
  • went back in and added a bunch of story flags I missed. whoops ay lmao
  • cash bar at the prom now has signature cocktails, cutscenes per character, & a post-Prom King/Queen crowning cutscene too
  • your date will now randomly be in a different mood for different drinks at the bar
  • physically hands the prom king/queen/royalty a prom tiara with stat bonuses when crowned
  • implemented simple little lockpicking %chance system as a pick-uppable skill



12/11/22

  • ayy new build friendos. v3.11
  • implemented paperdoll dressup systems for each major NPC (7 in total)
  • implemented prom outfit assets for tate, hex, horsemike, ashleigh, & covington
  • made a little easter egg jukebox the player can bang on to randomize the song/lighting choice at Prom
  • scripted mid-Prom setpiece interactable cutscene for a slowdance moment with you and your boo
  • spent an inordinate amount of time building the Prom soundscape & picking the perfect aggressuve edm and 80s rock ballad(s) for your dramatic kissing
  • also made a little feedback easter egg for a tiny lipstick mark to flash/fade on your crush after you kiss them


12/9/22

  • drew laila's prom dress assets
  • added random selection if player and laila haven't picked a prom dress
  • added dressup system for applying prom outfits (laila assets implemented)
  • added dressup system for juno's prom outfits (special asset cutting needed cuz she's translucent by asset, not code, cuz i wanted solid outlines. eyy ghosts)
  • implemented assets for juno's prom outfits


12/8/22

  • added skill+stat check gatekeeps for convincing hex to vote for himself at prom
  • implementing a shitton of prom content i need to copy paste
  • scripted common event for cumulative TateFeelings (kisses+dates+bodycount+points)
  • added little cutscene with story flag for Laila's prom dress choice in Prom Shop
  • cleaned up food delivery common event instances for food delivery miniquest