Heya !

Some of yall may remember me from the winter game jam from this year, and here I am again ! I plan on doing a text adventure in Twine (well. that's the hope anyways.) So let me give you a small run down of what I hope to do !

GAMEPLAY:

It will be a choose your own adventure style text adventure, with multiple choices sending you down multiple paths. (Be careful which you pick tho !) The genre will be horror, with the primary focus being (hopefully) on sound and text to give off atmosphere, with visuals sort of serving a back seat function. 

PLOT:

"It is 3 A.M. Your dog was whimpering, begging to be let out, and you, unable in good conscience to ignore your sweet dog’s pleas, did just that. Now all you can see in your yard is emptiness, and a hole in the fence. What will you do?"

GOALS (Both long term and short term):

- Figure out how to use Twine

- Write out each of the branching choices and figure out their effects 

- Figure out how to properly use modplug

- Uhhhhhh I'm bad at listing goals that aren't super general until I get a better idea of what I'm doing sorry.

Thanks for reading and I hope to share with yall what I've got done at the end of the day !

DEVLOG #1:

Okay so I didn't really do anything today coding wise or anything like that (I've just felt sluggish all day. and also i've been doing like hours of laundry because 1 stupid pillow refused to dry--) but ! I have decided that the game will have about 4 endings, best, good, neutral, and bad ! I also have already written out what each of these endings will be. I imagine that the writing will take very little time compared to my vn, (which took almost the entire 2 weeks last time) due to it being mostly narration, and choice description. I don't imagine there being any direct dialogue in this game either, with your character being completely described in a second person point of view, but we'll see! Also, just as a lil sneak peak, here's what I have for the good ending right now. >;3c (It's the only one that doesn't actually give that much insight to what I want you to be able to do in the game asdfjkl;)

DEVLOG #2:

Heyaaa defo got a lot more done today then yesterday ! (Which... isn't saying much since I got legit like. nothing done yesterday.) But I learned the basic function of Twine and am rolling along quite well ! I also just realized how short this game is probs gonna be, but hey. It's a two week game jam. I don't think anyones gonna make a 6 hour game here. 

ANYWAYS-- Twine is.. surprisingly easy to use?? (So far anyways.) I thought I'd have to spend like hours fiddling with it to just make a single path but I've just done 3 in like. 10 minutes. (That's an exaggeration but you get my point) Of course I'm probs gonna fiddle with them to hell and back throughout the 2 weeks but I was honestly expecting it to take so much more time? Last year working on my VN my writing + coding took up like. the entire two weeks. (I guess not having to write dialogue for several characters takes a lot less time asdfjkl;) Which means I will have hopefully much more time on my hands to really fiddle with the things that I feel like will really tie this game together! Such as the music and layout!

So I guess it's time to update my Goal list huh?

GOALS:

-FINISH PLOTTING OUT CHOICES (AND WHAT ENDING THEY LEAD TO)

-CUSTOMIZE GAME GRAPHICS (SUCH AS FONT, AND FONT COLOR, IF I CAN)

-FIGURE OUT EXACTLY WHAT I CAN MESS WITH WITH GAME GRAPHICS

-STILL NEED TO MESS WITH MODPLUG

-FIGURE OUT THE EXACT ATMOSPHERE I WANT MUSIC WISE WITH MODPLUG

-MAYBE DRAW AN END CARD FOR EACH OF THE ENDINGS ??

-UHHHHH MAYBE ACTUALLY NAME THE MAIN CHARACTER AND HAVE THAT REVEALED SOMEHOW

And that's about it! Well actually... here's a non spoiler peak of what I've done in Twine!

DEVLOG #3:

Heya! Not much exciting to show this time, still doing the basic stuff of writing things out. So lemme just give yall a lil peak of the writing in the game, before yall think this is gonna be a very serious horror game.

DEVLOG #4:

Heya ! Normally I post these later but also it's been a long day and I don't feel like working on it anymore so asdfjkl; Also gonna stop doing these devlogs semi-daily and start doin em when I actually feel like I've done some significant stuff, for the sake of everyone's sanity includin my own.

Anyways! I didn't get much done today (like i said, it was a long day) but I started messing around with some ~music~ ! I said I was going to try to use modplug but I've switched over to Bosca Ceoil because I just thought it was a lot easier to use like right out the gate. I'm planning on just having a single song loop throughout the whole game, roughly about a minute long. Soooo Here's what I got so far! It's only like. 10 seconds so i still have some work to do fbut I'm fairly happy with it so far, if any of yall have any feed back for it I'm happy to hear it, as I am a baby with 0 experience with music and am completely doing it by ear so.

http://chirb.it/49MLvk

So.

GOALS (UPDATED):

-FINISH PLOTTING OUT CHOICES (AND WHAT ENDING THEY LEAD TO) (DONE IT PRETTY MUCH JUST NEED TO WRITE EM OUT)

-CUSTOMIZE GAME GRAPHICS (SUCH AS FONT, AND FONT COLOR, IF I CAN)

-FIGURE OUT EXACTLY WHAT I CAN MESS WITH WITH GAME GRAPHICS

-STILL NEED TO MESS WITH MODPLUG SWITCHED TO BOSCA CEOIL

-FIGURE OUT THE EXACT ATMOSPHERE I WANT MUSIC WISE WITH MODPLUG (I THINK I GOT IT I JUST NEED TO EXTEND IT TO 1 MIN)

-MAYBE DRAW AN END CARD FOR EACH OF THE ENDINGS ??

-UHHHHH MAYBE ACTUALLY NAME THE MAIN CHARACTER AND HAVE THAT REVEALED SOMEHOW (STILL NEED TO THINK OF HOW TO REVEAL IT, BUT YOU DO HAVE A NAME IN GAME NOW)

-DRAW THE PROTAG AND THEIR DOG (This.. this one isn't really for anything I just wanna do it.)

haha yeah i think the best way to update devlogs is when when you feel ready--there's really no hard rule to it. also ooo cgs for endings sounds really cool!

Heya! This isn't really a devlog (I've been to busy to really work on anything asdfjkl;) but I do have a rough design for the protag you play as now!

You are a 26 year old woman,  still have no idea what to do with your life, and have a beagle puppy named Delilah that you'd actually take a bullet for.

Anddd that's about it for this right now.

DEVLOG #5:

Heya! It's been a while!! I haven't been able to work on this much lately because of. well. life. But I just got back into swings with things today and I've been messing around with a lot of stuff!! For example....

(I swear the timing on the actual things are better-- The thing I used to capture it just made my laptop lag a lot. It runs fine otherwise)

I haven't done... A  whole lot of writing so far. I still need to finish each path but I still consider this good progress !

So..

GOALS (UPDATED UPDATED):

-FINISH PLOTTING OUT CHOICES (AND WHAT ENDING THEY LEAD TO) (DONE IT PRETTY MUCH JUST NEED TO WRITE EM OUT)

-CUSTOMIZE GAME GRAPHICS (SUCH AS FONT, AND FONT COLOR, IF I CAN) (Haven't done it all but getting there)

-FIGURE OUT EXACTLY WHAT I CAN MESS WITH WITH GAME GRAPHICS

-STILL NEED TO MESS WITH MODPLUG SWITCHED TO BOSCA CEOIL (STILL NEED TO FINISH IT UP)

-FIGURE OUT THE EXACT ATMOSPHERE I WANT MUSIC WISE WITH MODPLUG (I THINK I GOT IT I JUST NEED TO EXTEND IT TO 1 MIN)

-MAYBE DRAW AN END CARD FOR EACH OF THE ENDINGS ??

-UHHHHH MAYBE ACTUALLY NAME THE MAIN CHARACTER AND HAVE THAT REVEALED SOMEHOW (STILL NEED TO THINK OF HOW TO REVEAL IT, BUT YOU DO HAVE A NAME IN GAME NOW)

-DRAW THE PROTAG AND THEIR DOG (This.. this one isn't really for anything I just wanna do it.)

Well that's it for now! Seeya again soon(er than last time, hopefully)! Also, just for those curious, here's what my little.. path system looks like rn.