Posted April 17, 2022 by Xevvy
Hey, did you know that tomorrow, the 18th of April, is the second anniversary of the day development on Sileo began?!
That’s right! CurryCatz and I had come into contact a few days prior. He had already demonstrated his skill with some early renderings of Diego, and I had demonstrated mine with an old playable prototype I had worked on several years prior. We both wanted the same thing, to make a visual novel simply for the love of it, and we both knew full well that it was unlikely the project would blow up or bring in any real cash, at best we anticipated a small following and some extra pocket money.
Of course, things went better than we thought possible!
Two months later in the June of 2020, we made our debut with version 0.10 containing the first three days of the intro! We chose to proceed with that same prototype, making it into a full game. This gave us a big head start and allowed us to jump straight into the thick of development as the plot, the setting and many of the characters already existed, and with a prototype to reference, it was a simple matter to match what was already there and worry about making it better in subsequent updates.
A whole two years on, we have 500,000 words of story, 19 characters including the protagonist, a huge array of fully drawn backgrounds and illustrations, some wacky sex scenes, an amazing new UI and much more besides! But we’re still so far from being done! Tai’s route is nearing its conclusion, but two main routes are still to be developed, and not to mention a ton of extra content and side-routes courtesy of the Tales from Woodcrest mode which will be debuting soon!
A big thanks to everyone for their support over these last two years, and here’s to many more!