Posted March 23, 2022 by MintGlow
#nanoreno #sprites #sssweets #renpy #backgrounds #characters
What week is it? It's the 12th week of 2022!!!
... No? Well, it's also the week after finals week! I get one whole/only one week of college break before starting three wonderful subjects again and repeating my death cycle.
Oh? That wasn't what you wanted to hear? Fine, it's basically the last week of NaNoRenO 2022!
starts screaming in excitement and agony
* Finally made a phone screen after a few hundred reloads and value changes :'D (I used Ren'Py's NVL mode). Wouldn't it be cool if you could press the call button?? 👀 (Disclaimer: You can't press the call button(s) right now and idk if I'll make it a feature in the full game. This is more of a tiny test if I ever use it! Looks quite similar to a certain communication platform, no?)
The café also looks a liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiittle different, just a little.
...
At least it's still pink.
(I simply wanted to use a picture I took of a place uwu)
* New characters and their sprites??? Since the last character I made was Aq about three or four years ago, this is a pretty big deal for me. I don't like making characters and their designs and names etc. all willy-nilly... They would feel too lifeless for me.
Now it feels like I'm building a whole world!!
* So... Here is the Store Owner. You may already know her name if you've been snooping around my social media :3 They are a rat person. Who knows if they'll play an important role ~
* And this cat girl's name is Quo! Aq and Quo... Maybe you can already assume what role she plays! Quo is a few years older than Aq :D
* I finished revising the script!!! Yes, sitting at ~ 4.5k words... It really might be too short ;;
* Finally, I got the backgrounds! Yes, after a lot of indoor time crying through finals, I finally went into the outside world with my family. We went to the mall over the weekend and it was delicious :P
Kudos to you if you know where these are, hehe. If you don't, I'm not gonna tell you anyway XD
Sprites: 100% (... Yep. That's all of the characters for now. Sorry if you were disappointed somehow, like me C: )
Backgrounds: 100% (I have finally went to the city and took pictures of the city!!!)
Sounds: 100%
Music: 100%
GUI: 100%
Story: 100% (Again, I hope this isn't TOO slice-of-life that it deters people from playing... Something else.)
Writing: 99.32984987% (A few more re-reads and it'll be good to go!)
Since the end is so near and I already have 99.888889% of the visual assets complete, I might not have time or even post anything for the fourth and final week of NaNo... Except for the game!
Please read the disclaimers for the game before you start. It doesn't have any spoilers this time, but some real disclaimers that I somewhat regret to inform you about. Also, read the "features" to know what you're getting yourself into.
(I'm starting to get a little self-conscious about this demo since people actually want to play it 😅 Like, who plays games that are marketed to them and posted to the public for everyone to download???? Jk ofc 💀 I think the pressure is getting to me.)
I'm worried for two reasons:
A) SSSweets will deter people from playing the full game since this demo isn't very exciting (AKA does not currently have drama, excitement, nor a clear plot).
B) SSSweets will deter people from playing the full game since this demo is too short and doesn't reveal much of the story unless truly analyzed.
But I guess we'll find out together!
Here's also a little thing that happened in the middle of last week when I remembered something on the 20th--
Poor Myx lmao
That's a WHOLE ROOM of people 🤯 No matter the reason you followed me, you are still supporting me in some way, so I genuinely thank you guys for that :D
(Btw I peeked at every single one of your profiles btw the moment you btw followed me btw 👀)
Thank you so much for reading this and sticking around!! And if you're doing NaNoRenO 2022 too, let's end this thing as strong as we can >:D
- MintGlow