Greetings from CMCDEV!
It's been awhile, yet again...

We didn't quite have much planned for today, so we'd like to showcase some of the upcoming features within Ghosts & Japes 2.1.
It is not a comprehensive list, but it should give you a few ideas of what to expect...

- Arcade cabinets with rewards for playing well, and spooky (or cute) jump scares for if you fail terribly!
- New enemies!
- New items!
- Controller support!
- Additional language support! (Note, we do not provide actual translations, it simply has support for them...)
- A weird inventory system! Japes, don't you know that metal isn't edible?! Japes?!?!
- A menu to see and manage the upgrades you have acquired!
- And _______!

It will likely take a good little while before the update is ready for release, as there are many things we would like to add, and polish.
... And because we are currently busy with moving...

We hope to release it as soon as we can! We want you all to be able to play it, too!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1IGR1AdGGs

In Ghosts & Japes, you will explore a cursed house... Fighting(?) ghosts, collecting treasure, and trying to survive as long as possible.

FEATURES:
A slightly less pathetic protagonist!
- Hungry Ghosts! (Obviously.)
- A spooky cursed house with procedurally generated floor layouts!
- Unique floor themes!
- Traps to avoid!
- Shinies! A lot of items forcing you to part with your shinies...
- Plenty of dialogue to get distracted by while fighting for your life!
- A Ghostiary to see who you've encountered, track completion, and replay against them! (Features a music player, too.)
- Achievements!
- 3 Difficulty settings!
- Toggleable save-deletion mode for any difficulty.
- Moddability built in! (Add your own ghosts, sounds, room designs, player sprites)
- A LOT OF DOCUMENTATION!
- please read the documentation.
- please
- There is no escape. Download the game! Play the game!! Share your favorite ghost!!! ... Make a ghost...?
https://cmcdev.itch.io/ghostsandjapes

2.0 Credits:
PROGRAMMING:
Cammy

ART:
Cammy
Japes
Moonkey
RAO(らお)
JJ2
Pulse

CHARACTER DESIGN:
Cammy
Japes
Moonkey
RAO(らお)
JJ2
Pulse

DIALOG:
Cammy
Japes
Moonkey
RAO(らお)
JJ2
Pulse
Jirachi6774

MUSIC:
Moonkey

PLAYTESTING:
Captain Chara
Pulse
JJ2
JeliVanilla
M.R.
Jirachi6774
EMShifter
C0wnugget
Resilian
Andeanesce
... and more anonymous friends!

Support us, or find more of our content here:
https://www.patreon.com/user?u=104207763
https://www.youtube.com/@user-vu6gr3tl6u
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/55976544/

Hello everyone! As work on 2.0 continues and the release edges closer, we felt a need to catch up on things, and soon close off paintings as tier rewards. (As once G&J 2.0 comes out, it would be important to be able to focus purely on CharcuterieMINI.)
We'd like to thank all of our current (and past) supporters!

If, by chance, we have missed responding, or have failed to contact you about the painting offer and you had subscribed to a membership of "Slightly larger Slime",
(Or higher)

or if you had subscribed in the past, and have since cancelled said subscription;

(You don't have to re-subscribe, the offer is still available. Apologies for the delay...!)

Please let us know!

The deadline for accepting any further paintings will be on 8/8. (Haha, funny date.)

If you are unable to message us on Patreon, please email us here:
lifeisweirdgame@gmail.com

Hello everyone!

Thank you for all the love you've shown for Ghosts & Japes!
While the original plan was to move back to MINI directly after releasing Ghosts & Japes, there was such a lovely reception for it that we felt the need to improve the game.

So, here's some of what we've got so far.

• Per-floor rooms! (Now every floor type has unique rooms to explore! We went from 84 rooms spread across every floor, to 53 rooms PER floor... Adding up to ~530 unique rooms to explore.) • Traps, Decals, and extra decorations! (Shown above, each floor type has their own decals, traps, and decorative placements. Fun for room-makers!) Don't get cooked!
(I wish I had a life-sized Honeybun plushie...)
• New Ghosts! Revamped Ghosts! (The number of ghosts has nearly doubled. Not all are shown here... Older Ghosts have had various things added to them...) • New Floor themes! (But they're a secret, so have these keys...) (Ok maybe one...) • Extra Difficulties! (Easy mode is easier than the current game, Normal mode is equivalent, Hardcore mode is more difficult than current.
Floor 1 will always have one less active ghost so the learning curve is less steep.
Permadeath is now toggleable for any difficulty by pressing "F") • Many new items! (Japes has a gun watch out!!) • ??? (Cammy?? What are you doing in jail?!) • Various miscellaneous additions...! (Like prettier rain.) • A really detailed picture of the mansion for some reason??? • Hey wait a minute, you're not Kaishi. • A whole new sequencing system for in-depth ghostly animations! (I can't really explain it all here, but it allows for various things like randomly choosing animations to play, playing them in order and looping the final sequence forever, or playing each sequence in a loop. Various things in the eat sequence are modifiable, such as how much damage they do, what type of damage, the sound that plays, whether you're even allowed to escape...)
• ... And much more that I don't have room to write about...!

Look forward to it by the end of this Summer...

Hello again! It's certainly been a little while since the last MINI update.

We thought about the current name of the game, and thought it was a little tacky... So, LifeisweirdMINI, and by extension Lifeisweird (The eventual full version.), are going to be called by a new name.

That name being...
CharcuterieMINI, and Charcuterie.

We've been at work on some new systems for CharcuterieMINI, but didn't want to break anything while testing them.

... So we made another game for everyone to try!

Think of it as the appetizer.

Many of the features within this game will be used in some way within Charcuterie... Ghosts & Japes
https://youtu.be/jaSalNaoQy0

FEATURING:
• A FREE GAME!!
• A pathetic protagonist!
• Hungry Ghosts! (Obviously.)
• A spooky cursed house with procedurally generated rooms!
• Money, Items, and other things...?
• Externally loaded files! You can add your own ghosts!
• More externally loaded files! You can also add your own rooms!
• ... And sounds! (It's cause the files are loaded externally.)

Download the game! Play the game!! Share your favorite ghost!!! ... Make a ghost...?

((When you download the game, please extract it into a folder.))

Credits:
PROGRAMMING
Cammy

ART
Cammy
Japes
RAO(らお)

CHARACTER DESIGN
Cammy - (Maw and Seraph)
Japes - (Japes, Angello, Bunnygeist, Friend, Kaishi, Lulla, Magi, Spiriserpent, Spookobold and Tsughos)
RAO(らお) - (Ghost-Naru and Ghost-Plain)

MUSIC
Moonkey

PLAYTESTING
RAO(らお)
M.R. Orlando
spzi
Captain Chara
Cownugget
RicoPushii
Jayanto
... and more anonymous friends

The year has come and gone! Welcome 2024!
You may want a pair of earplugs, Mia found the wine bottles.

2023 has been eventful, with much planning and work done to get this project rolling.
We've been working hard at a bunch of key components for MINI since the last Status Update.

Attached are a few GIFs of our progress, as well as the upcoming music track for the Jungle level! (And the Ocean level song!)

We're working on some new creatures to face, the Options menu is feature complete, we have a fancier multiplayer/controls selection screen, Hats have been added, Emote wheels have made an appearance, and the End-of-Level Scoreboard is functional! (If you finish in 1st place, you get a cool hat in the next level)

There have been a ton of under-the-hood improvements, and many balance changes.

I hope everyone has had a very pleasant year, we'll keep you all updated on our progress in this upcoming year as well.

It's been awhile since our last status update, and we're sure you're all hungry for more news of progress.

But first we'd like to thank you all for the immense amount of support you've given us in the short span of us showing off the game.
We hadn't anticipated the sudden influx of supporters and it was quite scary but also very cool!
While all the new attention may startle us, we're very grateful for the support.
Thank you!

On to the game news!

We're still working on the next update, but it is going to take a good while.
Much of the work for the next update is technical changes and quality improvements.

We're working on adding a scoreboard when you finish a level with your allies. Attached is a rough design mockup for it.
The scoreboard will keep track of certain things you and your teammates do throughout gameplay, to offer a simultaneously competitive AND co-operative experience.

And we have a new character as well.
You may already be familiar with them!

Meet Naru!
She's a Mochi-Rabbit.
She loves ice cream, and can pelt enemies with it too!

Naru is a character owned by RIORAO, and will be making a cameo appearance as a playable character.

You may also notice two other characters in the first image, those being Miwi and Riley.
Both will also be playable.

There is currently no release date for the demo, but we will keep you updated as we get closer to it!

Thank you all for your continued support, and we look forward to seeing what you do with the game as well.

;3c

Enter the dense and lush jungle, filled with all manner of plant life!

With new and improved features!
• New music!
• New internals!
• New enemy!
• New playable characters!
• New items!
• Magic!
• Shopkeep!
• Shared screen multiplayer action!

Edit: The name of the game has since been changed from LifeisWeirdMINI, to CharcuterieMINI

A new friend approaches!
They will hug you~!

It's done when it's done.