Posted November 01, 2022 by ghosts on tv (k.v)
#devlog #progress update
My name is Kayleigh Van Overen. I’m the creator of the Death of the Video Star. It's been a month since the demo has come out, and I'm super grateful for everyone who's played! I wanna do monthly updates on how the Video Star* is going, and also a bit about my process making it, my #thoughts, etc etc etc. When I was getting started, I had a really hard time finding documentation about what’s it’s like to actually *make* a visual novel, so if I can add a bit, I’ll add a bit.
Some baselines:
CURRENT PROGRESS: About eighty percent through the second act! 24,491 words total. There are four acts (sections???) overall. I’ve written VERY SMALL parts of the other acts, but I tend to write linearly. The entire thing is pretty much outlined though; I know what happens, I just gotta write the damn thing. I’ve started making sprites for some of the characters in this act, but I probably won’t really get into it until I’m done writing.
Anyways, that’s about it for the first devlog - is there anything in particular you’re curious about? I have a few things I want to write about but I’m more than happy to discuss whatever.
Talk to you soon! <3
*Video Star is how I personally refer to it, I don’t tend to do acronyms? I have no beef with them, I just tend to use phrases instead.
**I use Photoshop because I’m not willing to let go of Adobe Suite for other reasons. There are other, better, cheaper drawing programs, and you should take advantage of them.