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Knickknack PJ @ maxin relaxin @knickknackpj.com · 27/09/2026

I'm going to miss this sweet little man so much...

Mochi, a fat grey tuxedo cat with one eye sitting like "draw me like one of your French girls"

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Knickknack PJ @ maxin relaxin @knickknackpj.com · 16/09/2026

Lmao too long for a bsky post so you get this

To pals who are vn devs and those who may be looking into getting into vn dev: if there was a blog discussing different visual novel engines, what would you want to be touched on?

No promises, but this is something I'd like to do in the future and at some point I'd like for my website to have blogging so I can just put my devlogs there too instead of solely itchio.

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Knickknack PJ @ maxin relaxin @knickknackpj.com · 14/09/2026

[talking to a cat voice] haha big stretch!

An error message seems to have stretched itself across the visual novel's entire screen, making it incredibly hard for me to parse whatever the fuck art asset is missing.

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Knickknack PJ @ maxin relaxin @knickknackpj.com · 14/09/2026

yeah sure looks good lets fucking go or whatever

A history screen in a visual novel that depicts no text, instead it has a scrollbar that's comedically wide and takes up 33% of the screen with a tiny scroll thumb being the only thing breaking it up.

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Knickknack PJ @ maxin relaxin @knickknackpj.com · 16/07/2026

Alrighty finally getting close to the finish line! Just gotta edit that script and code it in so I can stop using this line that's not actually in the script lmao. #o2a2jam2026

A statue of a goddess stands in the darkness with only the broken yet colorful windows illuminating how rust red it looks. One of the brightest parts of the window bears her portrait, expressionless since I didn't do expressions for her yet.

Text highlighted in red sits next to a sketchy portrait. The text says: "Lady Ydios - "What's up asshole are you ready to get stupid and play yourself?" and there's a Continue button below the text.

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Knickknack PJ @ maxin relaxin @knickknackpj.com · 12/07/2026

ok this isnt what i intended but visually speaking it kinda rips

Somehow the bg image split into four and the text is now aligned 2/3rds into the screen

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Knickknack PJ @ maxin relaxin @knickknackpj.com · 12/07/2026

Juggling #O2A2Jam2026 is going to be tougher for me this year so this pic with dummy assets may be the only pic of it I can post for a while (may or may not have actual in-game dialogue

A statue sits in the darkness with only the windows illuminating it -- at least, that's what I'm hoping to convey using colors, an unrendered 3d model of the temple, and a badly cropped image of a Greek/Roman etching of Athena/Minerva. Text highlighted in red sits next to a sketchy portrait. The text says: "Lord Ydios - "What's up asshole are you ready to get stupid and play yourself?" and there's a Continue button below the text.

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Knickknack PJ @ maxin relaxin @knickknackpj.com · 30/06/2026

"It doesn't take me long to find him. It was, after all, the place I kept finding him at even before we started dating." Verity is a 500 word ending made in Lightvn (Windows) and Ren'Py (Linux and Mac). knickknackpj.itch.io/povv

A fat person with short hair stands facing towards the lake with stones at the shore, and this person's back clad with a red plaid shirt is facing the viewer. The textbox states "Him: I know what you're going to say. 'You don't need to be perfect. You just need to be you.'"

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Knickknack PJ @ maxin relaxin @knickknackpj.com · 30/06/2026

"I hate looking at you. I hate knowing you exist." Obstinate is a 500 word anger made in Godot using Dialogic 2. knickknackpj.itch.io/povo

A fat person stands in the center before a lake with tons of shading from trees, and the person's visage is obscured by a pixellated textbox. The person wears spiky multicolored hair in a half tail, a face mask that has a toothy grin, and a dark top below a green plaid shirt that matches the shorts the person wears. The person has some hair on their arms and tummy, and sports some stretch marks too. The textbox reads "This happens with nobody else but you. I feel so normal when I'm with literally anyone else, so of course all these feelings I have are all your fault."

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Knickknack PJ @ maxin relaxin @knickknackpj.com · 30/06/2026

"A long time ago, I fell in love with a girl: you. I fell so hard for you that I still think about you years after anybody last saw you." Preserved is a 500 word reflection made in Decker. knickknackpj.itch.io/povp

A fat person with no facial expression stands in the center with an icy sunset at a lake as the backdrop. You can see parts of the background through the person, and the person wears a graphic tee, jeans, and a blue plaid shirt while having long dark hair. The textbox below the person states "It's okay to stay like this forever, I thought."

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Knickknack PJ @ maxin relaxin @knickknackpj.com · 30/06/2026

For Neo-Twiny Jam 2026, I decided on making a small trilogy of visual novels about perspectives on a person at different parts of life. Each of the games in the POV Trilogy are 500 words each and do not need to be played in a specific order. More about them in the thread~!

A collection of logos for the POV Trilogy: Preserved, Obstinate, and Verity. You can see the shoulder of each person in each game.

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Knickknack PJ @ maxin relaxin @knickknackpj.com · 30/06/2026

Earlier this month when getting started in different vn engines: "Oh these are fun and interesting to work in! It's gonna be neat to see them finished!" Later in the month while trying to test and export them all:

The Ben Affleck smoking meme, showcasing how fucking tired I am.

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Knickknack PJ @ maxin relaxin @knickknackpj.com · 30/06/2026

As i fumble around for releasing this little trilogy tomorrow, i hope yall can appreciate where I started vs the final for the one game in decker

Super early screenshot in Decker where I was trying to figure out how tf images, palettes, and textbox positions worked. The image is in pixelated black and white while there's some public domain sprites of an anime girl in twintails, shades of blue of purple streaks, and a green box in front of one of the sprites face. The textbox in the middle of the screen says "Why hello there!"

Finished screenshot in Decker, depicting a fat person against a setting sun in an icy blue backdrop of a lake in winter. Some parts of this person is see through, and this person wears dark hair in twintails, a pink pleated skirt, a yellow camisole with some cleavage showing, and a plaid blue shirt. Covering this person's face is a textbox that reads "But no matter how my mind sees you, memories told me you always looked so sad."

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Knickknack PJ @ maxin relaxin @knickknackpj.com · 04/04/2026

"maybe if i spray and pray nobody will notice and think im a super cool dev worth respecting and totally not worth being banned or blocked or reported"

The side of an itchio page listing what jams this game was submitted to. The list is so long that despite my scrollbar being at its bottom, there's still more jams this game got submitted to. I counted 21 jams.

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Knickknack PJ @ maxin relaxin @knickknackpj.com · 02/04/2026

sometimes you intend to fuck something up for the funnies only to actually accidentally fuck up thats way funnier than your intention #worstvnjam2026

I don't know if you want me to describe this lol, this shits hard to look at. Atop a shitty pixelated jpeg is the words Potato Chip Quest, where Potato is in a large searing yellow, Chip is big in neon green, and Quest is comedically tiny in pink.

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Knickknack PJ @ maxin relaxin @knickknackpj.com · 17/03/2026

at last, im about to Finally kick this white whales ass

The cover image for The Art of Pillars on Poppy Hills, an artbook im about to release about my titular visual novel. It features two pillars amongst ruins on a hilltop being swallowed up by bright red poppies. Red petals scatter in the air.

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Knickknack PJ @ maxin relaxin @knickknackpj.com · 09/03/2026

This was a way funnier response than I expected lmfao

Screenshot of the website "Your AI Slop Bores Me" where I ask someone role-playing as an AI chatbot "What Is Up Dog". They reply "his name is dug and from what I recall he has a sort of technological collar around bis neck that lets him talk"

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Knickknack PJ @ maxin relaxin @knickknackpj.com · 26/02/2026

It's been 5 years since I published my very first #visualnovel, Pillars on Poppy Hills! For its 5th anniversary, I did a big overhaul on its GUI, added some accessibility, and there's 4 new side stories you can check out! #vndev #PJPartyProj knickknackpj.itch.io/pillarsonpop...

The cover page for Pillars on Poppy Hills, featuring two Pillars atop of Hills covered in red poppies.

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Knickknack PJ @ maxin relaxin @knickknackpj.com · 01/02/2026

Apparently a whole ass regular bottle of polish is barely enough to get the tip of the chonker bottle's brush

The 60ml bottle now filled with 15ml of purplish brownish polish made from me mixing my collection together.

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Knickknack PJ @ maxin relaxin @knickknackpj.com · 31/01/2026

So I have a sizable amount of nail polish and for funsies I decided to mix them all together. I started running out of room of the 15ml bottle I had and got a bigger 60ml bottle and fellas... that size difference tho 👀

A 15ml bottle full of purpley grayish nail polish with a variety of glitters sits next to an empty 60ml bottle. The empty bottle is Huge.

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Knickknack PJ @ maxin relaxin @knickknackpj.com · 04/01/2026

ive gotten though a good portion of the meat of the poph artbook, and now ive gotten to the part I really wanted to make. I called the section Bloopers, aka its fun to fuck up when coding a visual novel

A section of the Pillars on Poppy Hills upcoming artbook update, showcasing many blunders made when coding the visual novel. Some blunders include The Painter's face not rendering with the textbox reading "Any semblance of anger or annoyance the painter possessed was erased when he paused and thought before answering", two painters with the caption "The researcher sighs, visibly annoyed", and UI mishaps such as text smashed in the center of a music gallery screen with no way to play the music and a really ugly main menu screen where nothing is aligned and theres a haze over it for some reason.

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Knickknack PJ @ maxin relaxin @knickknackpj.com · 20/12/2025

Hi @lemonink.itch.io I am your Secret Santa for #VNSS2025! You:Me and If:Then shook me so I made fanart of Iris and Galatea. I hope you like it! :D Thank you so much @crescence-studio.itch.io for hosting and organizing this event! 💖 If:Then lemonink.itch.io/ifthen You:Me lemonink.itch.io/youme

From left to right is Iris and Galatea in a mirrored pose. The left side containing Iris is abberrating and glitching while the right side containing Galatea, though pixelated at times, looks less distorted but more barren.

Iris has long, dark wavy hair and wears a green headband, and she is dressed in a white shirt, green sweater vest and black skirt. She has her hand on her chest while the other hand glitches and fades into Galatea's hand. Her image is glitching with the background, but she still smiles at the viewer.

Galatea is a humanoid female presenting robot. She does not have hair or wear clothes, and has body parts separated into ball joints, metal, and flesh colored solids. She wears an eternal smile while pixels of many colors fill her eyes. Galatea holds an iris flower in her free hand, but it's unknown if she's looking at the viewer or the flower.

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Knickknack PJ @ maxin relaxin @knickknackpj.com · 04/12/2025

"Talk to me baby, don't be shy~" posting my boys the other day made me realize i never did post these here lmao #ocsky

Leonoti, the smiling tall man with wavy hair, stands in front of a blushing seated Datura while stroking his cheek. Datura is struggling in vain to keep his emotions and smile in check, and is clearly holding back on touching Leonoti's ass

Datura, the large man with a ponytail and glasses, leans over a table with Hwanji, the smaller and armless man, sitting on the table facing Datura's flustered blushing face. Hwanji is smiling and wraps his legs around Datura's waist, bringing him closer as Datura struggles to keep his balance and struggles to keep a smile from his face.

Hwanji and Leonoti both kiss Datura on both sides of his face. Datura is struggling with his facial expressions but you can see hearts in his steamed up glasses.

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Knickknack PJ @ maxin relaxin @knickknackpj.com · 03/12/2025

Quickly posting this here bc it caught me right when I was about to doodle ocs for a warmup

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Knickknack PJ @ maxin relaxin @knickknackpj.com · 23/09/2025

Cleaning up my desktop and finds this screencap I completely forgot about

Zoomed in screenshot of a save file in a visual novel. The pulled text in the save file reads "How haughty of you to ass..."

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Knickknack PJ @ maxin relaxin @knickknackpj.com · 08/09/2025

you know what sure imma just post the ooc ending to this thing im working on. also wow the snippit feature is super nice, im really liking ellipsus

And you will become a part of something bigger than you'll ever be.

No

Matter

What

You reach out to the figure jumping into the light

And finally rip

it

off

#roll credits babey

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Knickknack PJ @ maxin relaxin @knickknackpj.com · 15/08/2025

I'm so fucking happy and proud of how my nails came out that I'm kinda bummed I only have a shit camera to show them off 😅

My nails look like little fishies!!! I'm also holding a nail polish bottle of Plus Life Lacquer's Having a Blast

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Knickknack PJ @ maxin relaxin @knickknackpj.com · 27/07/2025

Funny moment of post vomit clarity where when looking at the modern drawing of the mascot of Little Ceasars, I realized he has LC embroidered across the bottom of his toga

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Knickknack PJ @ maxin relaxin @knickknackpj.com · 20/07/2025

i forgot you get an email about your game's release on itch and this made me laugh harder than it shouldve

Post your project in our community

Share your mess on Twitter. Include an image or GIF along with your link. You can mention @itchio.

Post your mess to Reddit on our Subreddit

Share your mess on Facebook. Tag your post with @itchiogames

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Knickknack PJ @ maxin relaxin @knickknackpj.com · 16/07/2025

Won't lie I am. Struggling with this VN but at least I have a stupid screenshot of my struggles that made me laugh

A screenshot, which has a bunch of sketched art and error text. Textbox reads EVERYONE AT THIS GOD DAMN TABLE

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Knickknack PJ @ maxin relaxin @knickknackpj.com · 14/07/2025

#o2a2vnjam Script's been done and has been sent to beta readers, and while waiting for feedback time to draw bg and sprite for placement hope youre ready to ruin his dinner lmao

Sketch of an asshole looking at you across the table in a fancy restaurant or something.

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Knickknack PJ @ maxin relaxin @knickknackpj.com · 11/07/2025

Not only is this a p accurate summary of what I'm working on for o2a2 I'm also gonna fight for my life to keep this in the final script

nB “Faker? I think you're the fake boyfriend around here. And you're comparing yourself to me?”

nB “Hah! You're not good enough to be my fake.”

nA “I'll make you eat those words!”

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Knickknack PJ @ maxin relaxin @knickknackpj.com · 05/06/2025

My prescence online will be scarce for a hot minute so I shall leave this bit from my current wips that i cannot wait to draw

bi “I felt that with her. I felt so much happen with her and me, yet I’m not able to remember what we did. There were good times and bad times, but still, she was there for all of it.”

ki “I see… And how good was the dream sex?”

#smash cut to reality and Bituin face screams GAY PANICKING

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Knickknack PJ @ maxin relaxin @knickknackpj.com · 06/05/2025

Yay I was finally able to figure out displaying numbers for my sliders! However I spent a good portion of time wondering Why TF is it not showing a %? The code works in my other games and displays properly, so did I copy code wrong? The answer is that for some reason the font uses '5 'for '%' lmao

Screenshot of sliders in The Perfect Portrait. It displays both the Music and Sound Voumes at 755 instead of 75%

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Knickknack PJ @ maxin relaxin @knickknackpj.com · 01/05/2025

Dropped a glove i use for handling food and I had to respond in kind

The food glove landed with its middle finger out so of course I also stick my middle finger to it too.

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Knickknack PJ @ maxin relaxin @knickknackpj.com · 30/04/2025

This month's devlog really doesn't have much, so instead I'm just gonna send y'all to the Crips for eSims for Gaza Bundle itch.io/b/2965/crips...

Crips for eSims for Gaza Bundle

237 works from 170+ developers
over $800 in value
$16 minimum donation
all proceeds go towards eSims

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Knickknack PJ @ maxin relaxin @knickknackpj.com · 11/04/2025

I've been growing them out as long as I can tolerate them and I think I hit the limit bc ive never had long nails before and it's hard for me to pick Anything up. My thumbs nail just broke today and I'm floored to see how small my nails used to be. Also omg it's easier to type on my phone now

My hand showcasing my nails. All besides the index finger are pink with black speckles, and the index is yellow with red speckles. The thumb's nail is significantly shorter than the rest and the polish has chipped on it

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Knickknack PJ @ maxin relaxin @knickknackpj.com · 07/04/2025

To aces and others questioning and also desiring a relationship, I hope this happens to you like it did to me lol

The "Two Spidermen Pointing At Each Other" meme

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Knickknack PJ @ maxin relaxin @knickknackpj.com · 09/03/2025

Oh my god??? Admittedly I'm not nostalgic for furbies and I'm neutral on them, but looking up Pope Furby bc I know nothing about them and seeing this image is Sending Me LMAO I'm gonna look into this with my partner bc this look like the kinda humor we like

Pope furby in a restaurant during the day and in his hand is a glass cup of what I assume is scotch or whiskey.

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Knickknack PJ @ maxin relaxin @knickknackpj.com · 01/03/2025

Someone on itch asked me how I did the text particles in some of my renpy games, so I'll share it here too. You can copypaste the code from the alt text The idea is you still use SnowBlossom and its usual settings for speed/direction, but instead of an image you use Text like it's an image.

$image textsnow = SnowBlossom(Text("{color=#ffffff50}...", slow_cps=1, size=88), count=10, border=50, xspeed=(-20, 150), yspeed=(-100, -200), start=0, fast=False, horizontal=False)$

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Knickknack PJ @ maxin relaxin @knickknackpj.com · 21/02/2025

Well, I highly doubt I'll be able to finish my Trans Joy Jam game on time. Ah well, I'll get it done Eventually since codings done been done and all I need to do are visuals and testing. Here's a sneak preview of the visuals at least #coolWIP

A sketch of a person with their face pouring over their heart, something they're trying to hold back with disembodied hands. A smattering of text is behind their transparent body.

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