Hey beautiful people. This is my tl;dr devlog for my upcoming point-and-click / narrative-based game, The Ape Painting (also wishlistable on Steam, wink wink). I'll be posting long-form devlogs over on the Itch store page itself, but I'm planning on using this as a space for shorter updates.

My most recent devlog for the game is Devlog #1: Why the hell am I doing this?, which goes into my inspirations for the game (spoiler alert, it's Disco Elysium) and my initial struggle to define what I wanted the game to even be. Check it out if you're interested. Here's a snippet:

The idea for The Ape Painting came to me when I was in a cafe with a friend, brainstorming ways to escape our shitty jobs. She was looking into jewelry-making classes, and I was storyboarding ideas for a game. Out of all my absolutely dogshit drawings (years of pixel art have not been kind to my ability to hold a pen), one in particular stood out to me: your one-night-stand’s Bored Ape NFT painting falling off the wall and killing him

I felt that the premise was entertaining in itself, but also posed some interesting questions. What, for example, had screwed up our protagonist so bad that she was willing to sleep with a cryptobro? This was the central question that I tried to answer while writing this story.

Anyway, hi! Hope to see you all around.