devlog (|||￣ ￣)

this is a summary of what ive already made thus far since ive started at the beginning of july.

i am pretty much only focusing on the route for d right now and will be progressing route by route. ive been trying to focus on writing out the dialogue first, ive almost finished writing the second scene for d, out of 4 main scenes for each character (plus inbetween and intro/outro scenes). yume 2kki ost coming in clutch as always when i need to rest my head and focus real hard on something.

i coded the 1st scene into renpy already, with most graphical elements missing. but basically the 1st scene is entirely playable. i think when i playtested it the unfinished intro plus the first scene took up about 15 to 20 minutes.

ive also done most of his sprites, idk how many i want yet but most of them are serious expressions so ill do a little bit more with positive emotions. i have an unfinished dialogue box. i picked the fonts, but theyre giving me a bit of a problem, letters have no variations for accents. this is an issue because id like to translate my game to french for my friends who dont speak english, but that would require the presence of custom characters for at least é è ç à ù. i suppose ill modify it by hand.

ive also made music for it. for now, i have a home menu theme, a random theme for k, & multiple themes for d : a casual theme, a remix of that theme (thatll show up in both of the final scenes), a dedicated theme for his second scene, and a dedicated theme for one of his third scenes. so basically its 4/5 songs minimum that i wanted to add for him. i might add more but for now i want to make at least 1 more track.

thats basically it for now. i havent been making progress for a week or so due to mental health & im on a bit of a self mandated break. ill be back on it soon enough but i start uni back up in a week & a half so itll slow everything down. this past summer vacation has been the first one in a long while where i can say i was more or less truly happy. every year it used to be such a slog to be left alone with my thoughts in a house i hated. but this year, weve started socially transitioning at university, which has greatly alleviated our dysphoria. i mention this because it used to make us so miserable we couldve never imagined sticking to a project like this. we waited and waited to go back to school to have something we could keep our mind busy with. now, i wish summer could last forever.