Our June Devlog

"Amaiguri, what have you been DOING since you finished your script?"

Good question: VACATIONING! 🧉😎🛌🏻I was visiting friends and family, getting Wedding photos taken, visiting fancy restaurants, etc.

And while I was vacationing, I also:

• Added my first letter to the game

• Planned out the rest of the year of marketing and videos

• Lined up a new YouTube collaboration

• Written 3 other videos

• AND made a production schedule through the end of Summer

Now, SUMMER is 53 Workdays, 78 Calendar Days from June 14th to August 31st. That's at least 6 fortnights! So, what's on that production schedule, you may ask?

• Letters 1-27

• RAM Management (We've already done this now!)

• A NEW Conlang Puzzle!?!?! (This is already in the game too now!)

• One more map to draw 😭

But now, I'm back from vacation!

And the very first thing I did when I got back... was clean.

But the very SECOND thing I did when I got back was start implementing the story chapters -- or "Letters", as we call them -- of the script into the game. I started on Letter 8, and we have gotten all the way through Letter 11 into the game. Woot!

Now, let me tell you... I am already behind on this new schedule. Thank GOD that overall, I am being slightly less ambitious -- I am only going to try to release "Season 1" of my game by the end of the year. Which is looking like the first 38 letters. And that's much less scary than trying to do 189 letters by the end of the year. Yay!

Initially, I was also planning on doing all my art ahead of time. But now, I am doing art as I go -- and this might be the thing has slowed me down... But as more art gets done, that's more art I can reuse. So hypothetically, it should start taking me less time, as time progresses! Here is some of said art:

We also also actually wrote all the random NPC dialogue in the big southern city, so now you can chat with everybody! Woot woot! Now you can make friends! There's even custom dialogue, for if you're playing as specific characters. The characters you decide to control to explore has (sadly) only little impact beyond this, but there's a few cool details! Some characters can't enter certain rooms or sleep on certain beds because of the ✨trauma✨. Unfortunately, as with all my goddang flavor text, this took TWICE the amount of time I thought it would to complete! ARGH! Never underestimate your flavor text, folks!

Now, if you'd like to get a sneak peak of a totally random chapter, check out this super secret YouTube video!

(Just a fair warning though: I started my work on one of the more chill, less action-heavy sections -- so I can hone my skills on these calm moments and then NAIL the high-octane Courtroom action! So this if you know nothing about my world nor characters, this is NOT the most interesting place for you to start. But it DOES exist! Hurray!)

This next sprint, I should just be adding chapters 12-16. Hopefully, I can keep up a decent pace AND give you all a proper introduction to the story and world. Send me glorious adsense money to keep up my motivation! Jk jk... unless👀