Devblog #45

At first, I was going to make another regular devblog today, but then I took a look at the calendar and it turned out that it has been a year since we assembled our first Under Your Spell game build. We initially planned on publishing it on June 10th 2024. But decided to delay for another month to add some more backgrounds. Damn, the game looked empty at that time. But that's not what I wanted to look at right now, but instead on what had change withing this year.

We started with four girls: Aisling, Lily, Violet and Gwen. Each of whom had only three events. And each event had around 400 words on average. After a year of work, we now have seven girls, expanding the roster with Katelyn, Ciara and Elizabeth. Each of them now have five events, and each even is averaging at 1000 words.

The 0.1.0 build had around 15000 words in it. Which in itself was a bit of an achievement for me. In version 0.3.1, I am now closing on the 85000 words mark. Which shows how the game grew in these 12 months.

8 semi-random events that introduced the classes and that were available on start, now turned into 32 events (more than 50 if you count the small ones) that are now spread around varies activities.

Inventory and shopping got added to the game.

Eleven original music tracks.

And of course a whole metric tonne of art! We started with only 9 backgrounds and five character sprites (4 girls and Eric). Today we have 20 background artworks (still placeholder though), some of those having day/evening variations. 21 sprite for different characters. And the sprites for girls became much more varied and expressive! And 9 full-screen artworks (soon to be 10). Some of those are even NSFW.

I would be lying if I said that the development didn't present us with a few of unforeseen challenges. And that everything is going just as we planned for it to go back at that point. But looking at these numbers now, I definitely say that we are moving forward.

Completed events then

Completed events now

A lot more is still coming. Proper sound design. More artworks. Journal. Proper backgrounds. Card collection. Gallery. And of course, continuation of the girls' and your storylines!

I hope you are excited for things to come! Here's an unfinished Under Your Spell logo that we were planning to use back in the day.

Shady Character One, out!