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This has been a lot harder than I thought it'd be

Before They Leave
A downloadable Visual Novel for Windows, macOS, and Linux

So, I've just spent the past.... I don't know  how many hours but I'm really tired and sleepy but I'm trying to stay awake to fix my sleeping schedule because I'm going to a Just Between Us tour show tomorrow...

Wait, what am I talking about. I just spent the past almost entire day working on this for the first time. First time using Twine, first time writing a script that has variables and all sorts of stuff that I wouldn't have been able to do without some super incredible help from the Yuri Jam discord!!! Jesus christ. This is so much harder than I thought it'd be with how people talk about Twine.

But! I'm really glad I'm doing it because it's helping me understand the tool and learn it so that I might be able to add it to my list of tools I can use for storytelling. Its just that there's some real fundamental stuff that's hidden away. (Protip: all of the Harlowe 2.0 documentation isn't on the official wiki, but here: https://twine2.neocities.org/)

I'm gonna keep jamming at this and hopefully once the script is a bit more figured out and polished and I know where the heck I'm going with it, I'm gonna move it over and spend time to learn Ren'Py and make art for the damn thing! Weeeeeeeee.

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