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2 years ago

DUSTTALE: an ending. official first Devlog + QnA!


This devlog will answer questions from the QnA made 2 weeks ago, along with showcasing some progress related to the game/story.

Firstly, a lot of the story has been made as concepts, and we have the general idea of how the story plays out. We won't be revealing all of the story elements of course, but you can expect it to be a bit different then your average Dusttale take. So to start off, we will answer story related QnA questions right away.

Jayden962 has asked the following:

1: what will there be the major changes between this and canon dusttale?

Sans doesn't go insane, Sans can't remember resets(Don't worry, theres reasoning behind this! Will be revealed another time.), and there is no phantom Papyrus. He also doesn't have the glowy eyes, and he wears the Beta Sans shirt.

2: how many phases will there be? Final corridor will have 2-3 phases, all of which are against Sans. Every other encounter will be a singular phase/not a big fight.

3: will papyrus be real or a hallucination like in canon? Papyrus will be real until the point he dies, then he isn't exactly real due to being dead.

4: is flowey involved? Yes.

FloppingFish3 asks:

Why do Sans's Gaster Blasters display yellow eyes?

So there's 2 parts to this, the first being that colored eyes are a left over when I was using public sprites when this was a solo project. When the game started to have a team behind it, the eyes were changed to be a solid yellow color. My idea for keeping that was to represent the human soul trait, "Justice", which is yellow. However, neither Sans or the Gaster Blasters will have a solid color eye anymore that isn't white.

Hakanveyakan asks:

Will sans win?

Play the game when it releases to find out the ending.

MemeLord_b65f asks: Is this canon dusttale where sans mimics attacks with his bones or fanon dusttale where sans gets powers from toriel Undyne and asgore?

Sans could mimic other monsters attacks if he wanted I suppose, but for the most part he doesn't. Sans does not gain other monsters powers, however he has work arounds/other methods of using similar attacks to other monsters.(Example of this in gameplay revealed in this devlog.)

ingogo05 asks: Ok A simple question, What's the story for this game?

I don't want to explain everything yet, but basically Sans has started killing monsters after witnessing you kill several monsters. Theres more behind it, but that won't be revealed yet.

Quinboy7 asks:

Will sans' dialogue be more original dusttale or its own unique styled dialogue?

Sans's dialogue for the most part will be his Undertale personality, with jokes and all. At points he will be emotionally detached, though.

With some of those questions being answered, we will now show off the gameplay segment of the Devlog. First off, most of the coding progress has been set to Phase 1 and the True Lab encounter. So far 6 attacks have been made for true lab, along with around 7 phase 1 attacks(one attack requires a bit more to be added). ALL of the coding progress has already happened in about a month and a half, so progress has been VERY well, along with overworld segments/rooms. \

Speaking of overworld rooms, heres a nice little small intro to the true lab encounter.

Overworld tileset by Reversed3829

Overworld sans by Mango

THE MUSIC FOR THE FIGHT IS A PLACEHOLDER!!! Heres the link to the song here - https://soundcloud.com/crazyjax419/my-internal-organs-are-begging-to-be-set-free-of-the-flesh-prison-i-have-encased-them-in

The true lab encounter is more then just Sans running into us, due to very spooky top secret stuff, and with a soul mechanic being re-introduced in the fight.

Sans sprite by Mango

Yep, Sans learns how to turn the Humans soul Green, due to his battle with Undyne. The green soul will be used a little bit more then just the True Lab encounter as well.

Anyways, enjoy these other 2 not green soul attacks from the true lab.

We hope you have enjoyed the true lab encounter sneak peaks, but thats enough of the true lab encounter. Next up we will be showing a little bit of content from phase 1, involving menu attacks and multi attacks.

While we won't be showing more gameplay during this devlog, heres a few more screenshots of the overworld for fun.

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We hope you enjoyed the Gameplay from this devlog, the rest of the devlog will be finishing the not answered QnA questions.

yeh_underman_yeh asks:

Will there be borders?

Yes, there will be a few options for them as well.

Jayden962 asks:

will there be a menu (with settings and button configs?)

Of course, although Button configs may not happen.

someoneongamejolt asks:

What are the best and worst parts about making this fangame and HOW DO YOU DO IT SO FAST?!

Best part has to be seeing something work as intended and be fun at the same time, worst has to be dealing with messy tileset organization. The game progress has been fast because I haven't seen the light of day in several months. FloppingFish3 asks:

Why do you post more content on YouTube than on your Gamejolt page?

I honestly just forget to post stuff on the gamejolt page, I will try my best to change that. We hope you enjoyed the Devlog everyone!

I hope everything that has been shown and talked about makes this game sound more hopeful, considering not too much has been shared besides some attacks from the start of phase 1 on YouTube. This game is already turning out really fun to work on, and has grown a lot bigger then I had expected it to. Thanks for reading this!



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I haven't posted anything here in 2 months oops

I'm bored and feel like doing a QnA idk lol

Just ask anything if you want, big spoiler stuff or anything like that most likely won't be answered tho

Also progress is awesome join the discord:

https://discord.gg/gMgAQvPzDZ

Update on the last post about soundcloud, everythings good now Also check out the bandcamp forgot to post it here oops! https://tddusttale.bandcamp.com/music

Hearts and Stars

oops

It been a while since I made an Undertale fanart

Hi small dustbelief update (menu sprites by zal)

Devlog on the 23rd this month(my birthday im old help) btw

I love forgetting to mention things on gamejolt oops

Undertale, but nothing's wrong.

Moving off Soundcloud due to its TOS and AI.