Posted October 24, 2025 by Shady Characters
What are your opinions on notes? I personally don't like taking notes. I always believed that if you have a good idea, you will either remember it, or it will come to you again. I do take them sometimes though, usually just some one-two word reminders that would help me start the thought process and steer it in the right direction. But hot damn, did I mess up my notes for the second Trial. It took me the whole evening to figure out the cipher that I conjured onto the page. What were those numbers? They didn't really match with anything that I had in the game. There were numbers on the sides. There were numbers in columns with a bigger number at the top. Some of the smaller numbers added up to the one at the top, some didn't. I have no idea if I figured out all of that stuff right or if I came up with something completely new during that frustrating evening, but I did come up with something. So I actually started coding the actual Trial and thus - the ground was laid.
Is there a moral to this story? Should I have taken better, more detailed notes of my ideas? Should I not have taken any notes at all? I have no idea, but the thing I had - was definitely more hindrance than help. So either make notes or do not, just don't leave rows of random-ish numbers on the pages and hope that you will be able to sort them out later willy-nilly.
Sorting out cryptic numbers was not the only thing I did for the game last week, though. I did finish writing six out of eight of girl visits before the Trial. At first, I was planning on doing them nearly copy-paste style, with just the phrases of the girls differing, but ended up adding a bit more flavor and variety to the encounters.
But most importantly, I did finish writing Violet's sixth event. Just like most events I have written recently, this one didn't really want to be written at first. But after a couple hours of struggling I came up with something I am pretty happy about. And wow, do we get our first actually romantic scene? Yes, yes we do. It only took us a bit over a year to get to this point.
Shady Two has been doing her part too. Someday we will be done with the intro sequence of the game, but we are not there yet. We are getting closer, though, with both Gwen's and Mitsuki's intro artworks are almost completed. So you will soon have more of our two most athletic girls in Tír na nÓg.
Well, this is all I have for you today I believe. I'll see you all next week.
Shady Character One, out!