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turtlehat @turtlehatdev.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

late but i had fun :) (also using this to shamelessly mention my game #AvocadoAttorney available now on the crystal ball)

Comic of me and a friend talking while walking together

Panel 1
Me (thinking mischievously): "Ooooooo I just got a sick idea for my game's combat system"
Friend (leaning back): "Course ya would"

Panel 2
Friend (annoyed): "Wait don't tell me you're adding a combat mechanic too that's gonna take you like 5 billion years"
Me: "Oh, not to Avocado Attorney, no"

Panel 3
Me: "It's for one I wanna make in the future"
Friend: "How far in the future we talkin"
Me: "Well this'll be game #4"
Friend: "And you're SURE you'll actually get around to making it"
Me: "Yeah I've got it all handled!"

Panel 4
Me (smugly holding up a timeline with faces on it): "It's all part of my 15-year plan"
Friend (looking at it skeptically): "Are we in Year 1"
Me: "Hopefully"

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turtlehat @turtlehatdev.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Got carried away and added image inspection to #AvocadoAttorney ! Including a whole slew of QoL features: - Keyboard + mouse support - Previously selected areas are marked - Screen edges, buttons, and health bar block cursor movement/mouse clicks #GameDev #IndieDev #VisualNovel #Scratch #Turbowarp

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turtlehat @turtlehatdev.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

#MiscreantsComic she fell into the mixer trying to eat the raw dough this is all that's left of her 😔

A cookie submitted to the Jackbox game Cookie Haus in the shape of Flick's face from Miscreants. The cookie is titled "flick fluttermoore," submitted by Tortolhot.

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turtlehat @turtlehatdev.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

what makes Avocado Attorney special is its simple scene authoring tools making fangames easy to develop evidence presenting sections are a little more complicated than cross-examination and menus because they need to check multiple answers at once, but hopefully the template still makes sense!

Scratch code for the single evidence presenting section seen in the previous post.

Scratch code for the double evidence presenting section seen in the previous post.

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turtlehat @turtlehatdev.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

#AvocadoAttorney, the visual novel I'm making in Scratch, now has the "Take That!" evidence presenting sections from Ace Attorney :) with this, my engine is now feature-complete! now I have to actually write the story and draw the art oops #GameDev #IndieDev #VisualNovel #Scratch #Turbowarp

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turtlehat @turtlehatdev.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Finally finished the base interface assets for #AvocadoAttorney, a visual novel I'm making in #Scratch / #Turbowarp :3 Thank you to everyone who provided feedback! #GameDev #IndieDev

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turtlehat @turtlehatdev.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

#AvocadoAttorney now has something any visual novel needs: dialogue options! You can build these with a linear string of blocks using a simple template. The system is highly modular, allowing certain options to add others to the list or lead to a sub-menu. #GameDev #IndieDev #Scratch

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turtlehat @turtlehatdev.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Second of two evidence-related things I worked on last month: Evidence introductions! By repurposing sprites from the user interface and some existing animations, this was also surprisingly easy to add! #AvocadoAttorney #GameDev #IndieDev #Scratch

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turtlehat @turtlehatdev.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

First of two evidence-related things I worked on last month: Evidence popups! Thanks to the animation systems I've already made, this was surprisingly easy to add! #AvocadoAttorney #GameDev #IndieDev #Scratch

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turtlehat @turtlehatdev.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

hope i'm not late to this but uh. i may have made some unwise decisions about how much time is okay to spend on a joke. so now the In Stars and Time Professor Layton Puzzle is a playable game that exists i made it in Scratch, you can play it here lol scratch.mit.edu/projects/120...

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turtlehat @turtlehatdev.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

"OooooOOOoooo, looks like you'll have to make a whole GAME about me, stardust~! 96 whole hours thinking about your bestie, aren't you excited????" #isat #InStarsAndTime #GMTKJam #GMTKGameJam2025

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turtlehat @turtlehatdev.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

malanga fritters i made back in may from the recipe in the manual for in stars and time! siffrin was right!! they good!!! (also thanks to deliham and insertdisc5 for making a manual with recipes for the game, extra goodies like that are so fun and it rocks! & papers & scissorses) #food #isat

Malanga fritters frying in a pan, with a bowl of batter and finished fritters to the side (in grayscale)

Malanga fritters on a paper towel (in grayscale)

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turtlehat @turtlehatdev.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

just regained lucidity after a feverish week-long programming haze and my ui now has animated transitions... huh it works with both mouse and keyboard, and changes state instantly so players can press buttons as fast as they want :D #AvocadoAttorney #GameDev #IndieDev #Scratch

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turtlehat @turtlehatdev.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

These sections are pretty standardized, so I made a set of custom blocks that developers can use to author them. If you use the template correctly, you can just fit blocks together in a linear order and they'll handle gameplay state and loop back to each other to support nonlinear player actions :3

Scratch code of a cross-examination section in Avocado Attorney. After opening the cross-examination and playing music, a loop containing each statement handles the logic for cross-examining. It first adds a number of statements of testimony, each with text, an animation, and a unique Statement ID. Next, one pair of Statement ID and evidence is marked as a solution to the section. Finally, the list of statements is closed. A series of if-then statements contains each dialogue scene that plays when the player presses the witness about each statement. Outside the cross-examination loop, the dialogue for completing the cross-examination continues.

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turtlehat @turtlehatdev.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

4 years into developing my game and i have finally added Gameplay 😎 #AvocadoAttorney now has cross-examination scenes! Like in #AceAttorney you must match a statement with a piece of contradicting evidence. I'm really happy with how easy making these scenes is now :) #GameDev #IndieGame #Scratch

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turtlehat @turtlehatdev.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

made a terrible comic for #makeaterriblecomicday2025, thank you to @candyether.space for reminding me this existed lol featuring my character mecker, an underpaid witch working for a magic factory whom i will make a game about eventually™

Panel 1:
(Mecker's hand holding a realistic bell pepper PNG.)
Mecker: "showed up late to work, stubbed my toe on a doorframe, mismatched socks, couldn't get any damn work done,"

Panel 2:
(Mecker stares down the pepper, determined.)
Mecker: "spilled mana potion on my uniform, missed the bus home and had to walk..."
Mecker: "today sucked"

Panel 3:
(Mecker sits hunched on her chair and bites the pepper.)
Mecker: "the only snack i've got is this stupid PEPPER" (the word "pepper" is green and glowing)
(Sound: chowmph)
Mecker: "but i'm gonna ENJOY IT"

Panel 4:
(Mecker sits up satisfied)
Mecker, loudly: HELL YEAH

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turtlehat @turtlehatdev.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

This week for #AvocadoAttorney my main task was making my graphic effect system work with visual overlays. Now you can apply effects to overlays on a specific layer (or all layers)—even ones that haven't been created yet, so you can setup their effects beforehand :) #GameDev #Scratch #AceAttorney

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turtlehat @turtlehatdev.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Recent progress on my #Scratch game #AvocadoAttorney! A couple weeks ago I finished a bunch of visual overlays! I've programmed a system that simplifies creating new ones and animating them with motion tweens, all independent of framerate. (Art is temporary) #GameDev #IndieDev #AceAttorney

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turtlehat @turtlehatdev.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Here's the block that creates this dialogue. Each string in square brackets is a text command, and each letter and comma-separated number within is interpreted as a parameter. These allow myself and other users of the tool to create robust and tightly-directed scenes with very little code!

A custom Scratch block, reading "say '[D20]Creating overlays... [OS2,2000][OB3,2000][OA4,2000][OF5,2000][OE6,2000]now![W2500][nClearing overlays... [OC2000]now!' as current actor."

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turtlehat @turtlehatdev.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Current task for developing #AvocadoAttorney is overhauling the visual effect system. With a single in-text command, you can now cause a preset visual effect to appear at any layer of the scene. Another command clears them individually by layer or all together. #devlog #scratch #AceAttorney

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turtlehat @turtlehatdev.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Hiii I'm finally posting on bsky now! I'm turtlehat, I have a lot of games I want to make. The first of those is #AvocadoAttorney, an #AceAttorney -inspired VN featuring a whole lot of absurd nonsense. I'll be posting a #devlog here from time to time!

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