Game Play Trailer

 Game Play Trailer for Steam page

What do you think?

Regarding the situation with itch

Hi there everyone

So far from what I can tell from this itch.io policy change is, that it means the games can not be searched on the platform, they are still there however if you click a link: https://bondagebunny.itch.io/unknown <- like so.

I think this means now that in order to find games like this you'll have to go to a third party (like how I've been archiving yandere games on discord. All those links will still work) but you can't search for those games now in the actual itch.io website.

So basically the only way any business like mine/only way to get games like this will be to spread/shared is through word of mouth.
Not ideal...

There is a petition about it though, https://chng.it/5JQ7qZZ5Bf

I'm going to leave a list of my game links here though incase:

Unknown
Can I walk you home?
Love Lock
Keep or Kill


Also~
Here a list of all the games we've collectively collected on the discord server as well: (So that they don't become forever lost as well)

Boyfriend to death
Eat Your heart Valentine
Love chains of fate
Til death do us part
Dead Wishes
Stalker & Yandere
Your Boyfriend
John Doe
Something's Wrong With Sunny Day Jack
The Wolf Downstairs
My Dear Hatchet Man
Loveless Biker Boys
Picture Perfect Boyfriend
Nothing Special
14 Days with you
Invite me in
Sweetest Valentine
Dachabo Digi Pet
Misfiction
Broken Colors
Favor
Binary Star Hero
Do or Die
Dr. Morgans Counseling Session
Pretty Boy Panic
Murder date
Boyfriend exe
Colored Gaze
Glass mind intro
Parasite in Love
Dead Meat
Hooked on You
Pretty Please
XOXO Blood Droplets
Sweet Care
Totally Normal Boyfriend
You and Him
The Gayandere
Cold Front
The Demon Lord Is Mine
Infectious Doctor
Monster x Mediator
Love you to pieces
Inclement idee fixe
Don't Toy With Me
Be Loved
Particles of Reality
Liar Liar
Liar Liar 2
Boyfriend to Death 2: Fresh Blood
Off the Cuff
Rot with me
Don't Romance Me
Courtin' Cowboys
Dating is hell
A Slasher Dating Simulator
My Darling
Yandere Island
Infatuation
Don't Take This Risk
Pulsatio Cordis
You are my Sunshine
Homes Embrace
Stuck in a Yandere Visual Novel Help
Forgive my Sins Father
Y.A.N.A
Froot Basket Valentine
ITYH: A Horror Otome
Solipsism Reigns
Yandere Heaven
What's your name?
MisTrick
Love Company
Love me not
A Portrait of Feathers
Missing
Lovers Paranoia
Killer Chat
Chromatic Agape
The Kid at the Back
Fervent Mania
Drown in Me
Under Your Skin
Criminally Yours
Sexy Cabin Murder Man
Love Bites
lovers trophy
Jester
See Thru: Need a Friend?
Pocket Lover
Forcefully Your
Saccharine
Love Sam
Color Me Killer
Desperate Love Feast
Bleeding Canvas
Devil's Gakuran
Bitter Sweet
My Ange
Love Me Dearly
Is it Wrong to want to be Locked up, Toyed with and Tortured by a Hot Guy?
Flowers of Evil
Akahane Academy
Pasthope
The Stranger from the Bus Stop
A Date With Denial
Kimbark Street
Gentle Fall
Sweet Dreams
Yanchat
Karamu
House Check
Mushroom Oasis
Please Don't Hate Christmas
Lucky Day
The Science of Staying Awake
Line 88
Colorful Spooky
Be my muse
Picture Perfect Romance
Tentador Leches

RIP Nipple

 😢 💔 One of my testers found a CG inconsistency where David isn't wearing his harness... (jk jk) I'd like us all to take a second and 🙏 mourn the nipples that will no longer be on screen 😩 (jk jk) 🤣 

I even purposely remember making this CG with the harness by the fire but it's going to mess up his sprites drastically. I don't think a nip is worth this hassle so, time for him to cover up. lol

New Beginnings

 🥂 Cheers 🙂

New Beginnings sale on both itch and steam~

https://itch.io/s/157215/new-beginnings

WIP CG

WIP for Bonus Content

Release

https://bondagebunny.itch.io/love-lock/devlog/885089/love-lock-pre-release-for-valentines-day

Hi everyone!

🎉Love Lock is going to be pre-released for Valentines day! 🎉

What I mean by pre-release is that the game is likely to still have a few bugs that I've yet to find. Specifically on Olive and David's route as there are 5 endings in each that I can't seem to get, so stats likely still need to be changed around to achieve those endings. 

10 endings needing work out of 298 I feel is acceptable for a release though, as I'm itching to release this game and free my focus for other projects and I know you all have been waiting a long time as well.

With that being said, that doesn't mean the game will remain like this. It just means that over the next few months there's going to be updates until all those bugs are fixed and it's no longer a pre-release anymore. Just as there will be updates for translations and then the optional DLC.

Happy early Valentines day everyone, I hope you're ready for this wild ride.

Progress

 As for progress:

Its down to mostly just Sebastian and David's routes.

Olive needs to be rechecked as well as the Stalker.

And 4 documents still need editing.

Art wise I have 7 images left to create. (until something else is found missing lol)

And the choice trees need to be updated/guide added, and put in the game.

Right and the buttons need to be pretty as said before…

ok things tend to pile up when I look at the game as a whole, but for where it is right now I… 🤞 I think it will be mostly done for Valentines day. Please don't hold me to that though lol. When I say Mostly done, I mean there's still likely to be bugs, bugs that regardless of how much we test it, we likely won't find. I figured that would be the case regardless, that I'd be fixing bugs for a while after initial release. I have plans on making a place to post bugs on itch, some kind of dev log or something.

WIP CG

 Some WIP CG for Bonus Content. Not everyone is getting a CG, some get other things. New backgrounds, new sprites, etc. It depends on the story.

Features

Some cool new features have resulted thanks to the testers hard work! 

They've been recording endings and key points to help serve as a soft guide later on. Still need to make the buttons pretty though lol

Development

 Hey everyone, 

I was taking a look at the testing tonight to see where things are at, and thought it might be neat to share. 

I've got a few people going through every single route and option finding bugs or continuity errors. Among other things.

Just thought it might be neat to show how much ground has been covered. And how messy it gets 🤭

 

CG WIP

 sneak peak at Bonus Content CG WIP

Translations

 Oh my gosh, I've been so busy I completely forgot to share this. :3

It's google translated so the idea is to have someone go through afterwards and touch it up, I don't currently have a translator for Chinese or Russian so those are likely to be stiff, but I suppose broken Chinese/Russian (like broken English?) is better then none?

There are some issues I'm encountering though. It tends to pick and choose what it will and won't translate >.< Working on a fix for that though.

Dev talk

 Testing wise there are 2.5 characters left~

The main route that then branches into separate stories still needs to be looked at. For the most part it's been combed through during Patreon testing, but it still needs some double checking

5.5 characters still need proof reading

And then there's a lot of behind the scenes stuff for me to take care of: like lowering the volume of songs/sounds that are outside of appropriate levels. Updating the credits with all Patreon names. etc.

My art todo list also increased >.< As testing has found that there are pieces that have errors in them. For instance Mark's backgrounds constantly change from day to night, Adam is missing his facial piercings. Some of the stalkers, Sebastian's and David's faces are old and need to be updated (missed them) as well as making a few new backgrounds/CG's for the rewards of completing all endings.

But yea, This is where things are at the moment.

I am considering though how "perfect" my release needs to be. And that if it's ok to update art at a later date so I don't miss my self imposed deadline. 🤔 I guess this is called a soft release/pre-release? I don't know the terminology though. But I do wonder if you guys would rather Love Lock be released but art be like... not perfect according to a perfectionists standards. Or to wait? 🤔 Maybe I'll put this to a vote.

Art upgrade

 Art upgrade! Thankfully I don't have too many more of these left. I truly don't know what 5 years ago me was thinking when I first made these characters. I guess I thought regular cell shading wasn't "cool" enough, or that I had to make it "unique" who knows. I'm glad I got where I am now though

Gallery lag

 Alrighty! For the longest time The CG gallery was extremely laggy, I have just fixed that! turns out I couldn't shrink 1920x1080 images to 300pixels, and have it behave like it's a small image. It was overloaded with 164 big 1920x1080 images... so making small thumbs was the fix. :)

BC

 The bonus content button has been added to all characters (I've only got half of David and Stalkers written) but it's in there!

I don't have a picture of it, but when it's unlocked the heart lock turns red and opens and the text becomes white instead of grey. The count will also go up to be [max number/max number]

Merry Christmas everyone!

 

Standee

The standee plan

Spoiler's below

Currently in print! Soon Love Lock bundles will be for purchase.

bonus content

 Things are progressing along. There is only 4 characters left for testing now and 9 sections/characters left for testing.

So I've started on bonus completion content!

I'm not sure yet if that button/ending tab is a good place for it or not, but like I said in the image there's not a lot of space to work with anymore. Especially for the one character with 54 endings... >.>

I've started writing the Stalkers Bonus content, 

I have a general idea of what it's going to be, but still not entirely sure what I should or shouldn't do with it.

LOL

This bug makes me laugh. Just blinking there in the background ominously. XD