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ingthing @ingthing.dev · 19/03/2025

Latest crochet endeavours including testing of various granny square patterns and my first big blanket project for myself (which I’ve done 12/80 squares of!)

A stack of crochet granny squares in four different blue hues, shown from the side.

An elderly toy poodle wearing a waist diaper band while sleeping amongst scattered blue crochet granny squares on a bed.

A light blue crochet granny square with a three dimensional flower in the center.

Two daisy granny squares in cream, blue, and yellow placed side by side, with one being half the height of the other.

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ingthing @ingthing.dev · 12/03/2025

I tried a Victorian (1880s) pattern for a quilt square earlier. It did not turn out square…

A computer screen showing a scan from a victorian era periodical on crochet patterns, and a hand holding an in-progress crochet project in the foreground.

A wonky looking blue crochet granny square.

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ingthing @ingthing.dev · 10/03/2025

I actually redid the baby blanket with a different yarn (one easier to launder) and it’s now done! Confirmed, it covers baby ✅🙂‍↕️

A square light blue crochet baby blanket laid flat onto a beige bedspread.

A small, elderly, black toy poodle swaddled in a light blue crocheted blanket on top of a beige bedspread. He looks displeased.

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ingthing @ingthing.dev · 04/03/2025

Checking on mobile, there is a filter dropdown on the fest page—but not on desktop??

Steam VN Fest page filter dropdown on Mobile

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ingthing @ingthing.dev · 04/03/2025

Not sure what the point of Steam VN Fest is if there's no way to browse all the games featured. 😬 How is anyone supposed to find new VNs when the festival overrides the entire category page with no filtering available? There are a bunch of smaller games that are flat-out hidden, including my own.

Steam Visual Novel Fest's Browse section, showing a list of games with no filtration options.

Steam Next Fest's browsing section, with a filtration sidebar built into the games list.

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ingthing @ingthing.dev · 03/03/2025

I finished Pirate Yakuza yesterday. When ambergris was mentioned, this dropout sketch was all I could think about…

A screenshot of a Make Some Noise YouTube short reading “you smell like that sh*t whales make”

A screenshot of a Make Some Noise YouTube short reading “Ambergris, baby boy.”

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ingthing @ingthing.dev · 27/02/2025

Very occasionally, I’ll see something and feel the urge to make it into a meme about my game at 1AM on a weeknight 🦆🪿

An edited screenshot of a headline image from The Onion News Network that reads “Rest of Party Thanks Fucking God 2 Guys Who Like [Birds] Found Each Other” with the heads of Everett and Hugo from Of Sense and Soul edited onto the people pictured.

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ingthing @ingthing.dev · 24/02/2025

First drawing of 2025 I’ve been happy with! I’ve missed drawing the OSAS boys for fun and I should do it more often… 🙈 #victorian #sketch #art

A sepia toned illustration of two Victorian men; the man wearing glasses looks in surprise at the pocket watch the robed man is holding.

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ingthing @ingthing.dev · 22/02/2025

For context, this is what happened to me with the last Yakuza game within 1 month of release 😅 (I don’t think I’ll get so sucked in this time though!)

A steam mobile app screenshot showing 109.6 hours of play time on Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, last played February 28, 2024.

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ingthing @ingthing.dev · 17/02/2025

Back to some work today; I did more crochet while recording OSAS gameplay for event setup earlier! Then, in the evening, I found some old fluffy yarn from 2020 and immediately hated the sensation of crocheting with it (and frogged the 1.5 rows I did immediately)

A hand on the right holding up a crochet project in front of a laptop showing Of Sense and Soul playing in the background.

A big crochet project using thin yarn next to an abandoned row of stitches made from a fluffy thick yarn.

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ingthing @ingthing.dev · 17/02/2025

Can now cover baby ✅

A baby blue crochet blanket in progress draped over an unpictured small dog.

The blue blanket folded back to reveal the small fluffy dog’s head.

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ingthing @ingthing.dev · 15/02/2025

This shawl continues to slowly grow and I’ve started on the blanket from Call the Midwife 🙈 (First saw the pattern long before I ever watched the show but now I have watched a good chunk of it!)

A dark blue crochet shawl in progress next to a baby blue crochet blanket, also in progress.

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ingthing @ingthing.dev · 12/02/2025

Oh she’s getting somewhere!! I can drape the shawl over my shoulders and have it actually cover them now 👌👌

A crochet shawl in progress laid out flat, made in yarn that gradates from navy to baby blue.

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ingthing @ingthing.dev · 11/02/2025

I’ve taken up crocheting again to help my brain rest; here’s the shawl I’m making!

A dark blue crochet shawl in its infancy lying on a white desk.

The same blue crochet shawl, growing larger

The blue crochet shawl growing steadily larger

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ingthing @ingthing.dev · 04/02/2025

My scripting buddy today (he has been very demanding) 🥰

A picture of an elderly black and gray toy poodle bundled in a black hoodie on a bed.

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ingthing @ingthing.dev · 23/01/2025

Been taking a new route to my singing lessons lately and I’m obsessed with this mural of a cow with unsettling eyes and teeth on a school wall I pass by on my walk

A children’s mural painting of a bipedal cow with a big toothy grin and beady eyes wearing a hat and holding a cane.

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ingthing @ingthing.dev · 18/01/2025

TIL they keep a jug of nuoc cham at every table for maximum dipping 👌👌 (I have rarely been to Vietnamese restaurants so maybe the jug is only mind blowing to me though!)

A picture of a plate of vietnamese summer rolls accompanied by a glass of water and a glass of iced milk tea.

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ingthing @ingthing.dev · 16/01/2025

Post a pic YOU took (no explanation) to bring some zen to the timeline

A leaf covered walking path through a forest.

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ingthing @ingthing.dev · 12/01/2025

She sang me happy birthday this morning 🥺

A tamagotchi uni showing a mimitchi celebrating a birthday.

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ingthing @ingthing.dev · 10/01/2025

Here are some from Little India in Singapore 🌈

A fruit stall shaded with large horizontal tarps striping over the image

A coconut topped trash can in front of a fence and a row of shop houses

Looking between the bars of an enclosed outdoor paved area

A cluttered market stall in Little India

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ingthing @ingthing.dev · 10/01/2025

Still getting my bearings with film but here are some from Hong Kong!

An upward view at overlapping roofs at a hong kong street market

A person with glasses and a cap standing by a wall looking over the ocean with a chinese shrine and flag to the left.

Buildings peeking over the tops of coastal rocks and little fishing boats.

A sliver of a building peeking through a shaded hillside stairway and trees.

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ingthing @ingthing.dev · 10/01/2025

She’s “emotional”

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ingthing @ingthing.dev · 10/01/2025

My beautiful daughter 🥰🌵🌈

A tamagotchi uni device showing a cactus shaped tamagotchi with shiny eyes and a rainbow poop hat.

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ingthing @ingthing.dev · 08/01/2025

My proper trip film photos aren’t developed yet so have some normal ones in the meantime!

A photo of a boat floating in the foreground of a dock taken at Stanley in Hong Kong

Nathan Road in Hong Kong, seen from across a planter box.

Fireworks from the Hong Kong Disneyland night show

A very pretty looking freshly baked apple pie

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ingthing @ingthing.dev · 08/01/2025

I’ve had a wonderful but very hectic holiday season and will hopefully be back to business very soon! Here are some photos in the meantime:

A table with two cups of coffee bracketing a caramel pudding cup and a set of tamagotchis.

A market alleyway in Little India, Singapore

A film photo of a neon lit street in Hong Kong

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ingthing @ingthing.dev · 28/12/2024

I’m having an end of the year holiday with my bf visiting but I’d like you all to know I’ve become a new parent of a tamagotchi 🥳

A tamagotchi uni social media post showing a “fave view” of an old man tamagotchi on the street.

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ingthing @ingthing.dev · 18/12/2024

On to potentially my fourth and final OSAS production notebook? 😳✨ Started each of these in December ‘22, April ‘23, October ‘23, and now December ‘24! #indiedev #vndev

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ingthing @ingthing.dev · 13/12/2024

I made the decision to scrap some art assets for a flashback sequence in OSAS yesterday, in favour of using existing assets instead, and I think it’s worked quite nicely! Here’s a bit of Seamus duking it out in past tense with his father 🫡 #vndev #renpy #indiegames

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ingthing @ingthing.dev · 13/12/2024

Where does the milk come from, Wiggler…

A screenshot from Super Mario Party Jamboree showing Wiggler’s Milk Station

A screenshot from Super Mario Party Jamboree showing a poster advertising “Milk” with Wiggler, a yellow and orange dotted caterpillar with a flower on his head, holding a glass.

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ingthing @ingthing.dev · 11/12/2024

(I am a Toad/Toadette player and I won tonight’s game 🥳)

A Mario Party game leaderboard showing Toadette at the top of the ranking with 8 stars.

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ingthing @ingthing.dev · 11/12/2024

Played the new mario party with my brother the last two nights and I LOVE whatever this thing is

A photo of a small playable green character named Spoke from Mario Party Jamboree. He has blue hair, googly eyes and big pale lips.

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ingthing @ingthing.dev · 11/12/2024

Motivational desktop decor 💖

A picture of a desk set up with a small framed image of a youtube comment written in a cursive font which reads, “Very epic! I want Hugo to give me that Gentleman Victorian sloppy toppy! Will play the game thank you” from a user called DeezNuts-wg7wu

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ingthing @ingthing.dev · 11/12/2024

Making short form videos to promote my game with is challenging, but this comment from one of them has made the effort worth it. 🥹 It will henceforth my framed and displayed in my room!

A youtube comment written in a cursive font on a plain background which reads, “Very epic! I want Hugo to give me that Gentleman Victorian sloppy toppy! Will play the game thank you” from a user called DeezNuts-wg7wu

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ingthing @ingthing.dev · 02/12/2024

I found extras of this rug I got Twinkle and he still likes the old one best 😂

Three identical rugs depicting a cartoon head of a dark gray poodle wearing a beret, in different sizes, as the top rug is being rubbed against by a salt and pepper toy poodle.

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ingthing @ingthing.dev · 26/11/2024

I’m played around with making short form video content tonight and I keep making myself laugh, I love my game so much 😂😂 #visualnovel #indiedev

A close-up of a frustrated looking man with the text “POV your gay victorian blind date is going awry (and someone’s gone and made it into a game called Of Sense and Soul)” on it.

A mosaic blurred picture of two men holding hands with the text “Number 2: Hand Holding (before marriage)” written on top with the words “hand holding” censored.

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ingthing @ingthing.dev · 22/11/2024

Another comparison! This is taking longer than I’d like but the result is very worth it…

A comparison of two screenshots of a scene in Of Sense and Soul where Mr Coulston is spouting anti-avian rhetoric to Hugo. The new version on the bottom is framed much closer up and at an angle, highlighting Mr Coulston’s spittle.

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ingthing @ingthing.dev · 20/11/2024

Making some updates to the OSAS Demo hopefully for release this week! 🤞 Most of it was scripted Dec 2022-Jan 2023 so it’s getting a facelift using all my new experience with camerawork and Ren’py. Here’s a quick comparison from Hugo Ch1! #VNDev #IndieGame #Renpy

Two screenshots of the same scene from Of Sense and Soul, showing Hugo looking annoyed to the left while his cousin Camilla looks amused on the right. The first screenshot is from the original version, and the second is from the new version.

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ingthing @ingthing.dev · 18/11/2024

A handful of my favourite film photos from my trip to the US in September 💖

A photo of a Chelsea Flea Market stall overflowing with stools and tchotchkes, with patterned fabrics and colourful beads hung up on the back walls.

A photo of a white truck with its hood covered in small handicrafts for sale. In the background several palm trees tower over the parking lot.

A photo taken at the Santa Cruz Beach boardwalk of a pastel toned walkway with shops to the left and picnic tables to the right. Overhead, a line of cable cars trail into the distance.

A photo of a concrete pavement strewn with dark spots, a dirty napkin, and an abandoned, upside-down muffin.

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ingthing @ingthing.dev · 17/11/2024

Still mad I couldn’t bring the boys inside actual Crosby Hall last year 💔

A small paper doll of two men sitting together pictured in front of a building with large gothic windows in the background.

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ingthing @ingthing.dev · 14/11/2024

This is a great frame if you ignore that their crotches are right there 🙈 (I can’t promise the rest of the game will be quite so risqué, but check out @forsythiaprod.bsky.social for more where this came from!)

A screenshot from Of Sense and Soul showing two men standing in the foreground with the camera about waist height in order to highlight the box on the table behind them.

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ingthing @ingthing.dev · 13/11/2024

99) Drawing your characters in many different ways will help you remember and solidify what makes them distinguishable — AKA their most important character design features! (I still love these OrbSAS boys...🔵🟢)

Hugo and Seamus from Of Sense and Soul, but as orbs.

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ingthing @ingthing.dev · 13/11/2024

97) Sometimes, you can just horizontally flip a background to make it look fresh, if it's generic enough! 🪞 (I wouldn't do this with interiors, though. Mundane streets and the organic forms of nature are more forgiving!)

Hugo and butler Cornelius stand outside of a row of white townhouses.

Seamus and Hugo stand outside a row of townhouses that look very similar, because they are the same — just flipped!

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ingthing @ingthing.dev · 13/11/2024

I consistently make this typo when I write Seamus' name, and every time I think, "open sesame!"

Two audio marker file names, one with the name "seamus" spelled correctly and the other with it misspelled as "sesamus".

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ingthing @ingthing.dev · 12/11/2024

This was an interesting quiz! I think this rings fairly true with my work and especially what I do for OSAS 💖

A result from a quiz determining “What emotion do you create from?” Which reads: Your Result:
Love
You create from love. It is an overflowing love that seeps out of your heart and into all you create. You couldn't possibly contain it inside yourself, and so you dedicate yourself to depicting it through everything you make. Your art is a
celebration of what you cherish most, a loving tribute to
everything that captivates you.
There are things too wonderful to be appreciated in silence, and so you sing of your love time and time again. You are determined not to let your vast love go unnoticed or forgotten.
That's why your work is a declaration of affection, an expression of fondness for everything that makes your life worth living.

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