Hello!

I've never posted my devlogs to this board before, so this will be an interesting experience!

I've partnered with iggethepizza (BG artist for Enkindle) and Jotsuke Music (VGM composer) to make a visual novel for the 1-Bit Jam!

I spent a lot of time practicing 1-bit in preparation for this jam! I've been very eager to see what we'll make, I can't wait to get started!

Since the theme has just been announced, I don't have much to advertise. I do know that this game will have a more serious story than what I've published so far.

There might be a lion in it, too! 🦁

The scary rule thingies say I have to include screenshots in my post... so, here's really simple screenshots after getting all the placeholder stuff set up!

I'm not sure if I'll be doing a daily update, but I hope you look forward to the game and its upcoming updates!

Bye-Bye~! <3

Hello again!

Today, I have more visual things to share!

I overhauled the most important UI to better suit the pixel aesthetic. I don't know for sure if I'll be keeping everything, but the game looks waaaaay more like how it's supposed to!

Settings screen

Choice boxes

I worked a bit on the story, and finally think I've figured out how I want it to begin and end... but I need to work more on the actual content that moves the story forward.

I also got a lot done on the character. I can confirm, he is for certain a lion! I decided to call him Ellis! I think it's a nice name for him.

Standalone portrait

In-game w/ textbox

I think the design suits his personality, while also still being cute!

My plan for tomorrow is to focus on writing, since that's the weakest part of the game, so far. I'll also be drawing expressions for Ellis, which will be a lot of fun!

Thanks for reading!

Bye-Bye~! <3

Hello again!

Silly me forgot to update the completion percentage, so now it's updated!

Today, I did a lot of work on Ellis! In fact... all 41 of his different portraits are in the game now, eheheh!

He's made up of different poses and faces, which I swapped out to get a total of 41. That might increase if I need any special ones.

I wrote some for the game, but actual dialogue is only a little over 200 words. I worked some on what I wanted the story's message to be.

Screenshot time! These are pictures from the actual story, rather than placeholder text! Yay!

With that, most of what's left is intense writing! The music and backgrounds are coming along great, which really relieves me of a lot of stress, hahah!

Thanks for reading!

Bye-Bye~! <3

Hello again!

There's not much to talk about today, but I do have quite a few pictures!

The word count is a little over 600 now, which is still less than I'd like it to be at this point... not by too much, though!

One of the backgrounds got finished, so now the only thing missing from the beginning is the music!

Yay, background!

I've been wondering in the back of my head what I should call this game, but, no ideas :(

I'll show you what else I think is neat!

Here's the name entry with what I believe is called a "gamer reference" (Spelt incorrectly and I also refuse to fix it because I'm tired) :D

Decisions, decisions... What do you think?

Don't worry!

I also got to a pretty intense part of the story, which was fun to write! The word count went up a lot, hahah!

I also started a draft of the store page!

I think that covers the important stuff. Tomorrow is WRITING! So much writing, is what I'm gonna make myself do!

Only a few days left... I have faith!!

Thanks for reading!

Bye-Bye~! <3

Hello again!

Today, my main focus was writing!

Which... I didn't do a lot of, now that I look at how much effort I put in to get here...?

The story went from about 600 to a little over 1,000... which is still less than I want! I need to write a lot more tomorrow if I'm gonna meet my word goal.

A lot of the music got finished today, though! Which was really neat!

I also touched up some small aspects of the UI, so I think it's mostly finished!

Here's screenshots that (most likely) don't spoil the story!

Oh noes!

O yea, things like this happen sometimes!

Tomorrow: Writing! Again...

I also really wanna have the game named soon!

Thanks for reading!

Bye-Bye~! <3

Hello again!

This one will probably be a bit short!

I'm very happy to say that all the BGs and BGM came in today, meaning the game is so close to completion! Once I finish the writing, all that's left are things like the name, logo, and polish!

I'm so excited! I can hardly believe what's been done in a week...

Screenshot time!

Here's what the inside of that house looks like!

Here's sad boi in the house!

Oh noes what's this "house" thingy he doesn't like???

Tomorrow will be a lot for me. The final day!!

I know I can do it.

Thanks for reading!

Bye-Bye~! <3

Hello!

The game is OUT!! Go check it out, if you wanna!!

Store Page

Thank you for reading these!

Bye-Bye~! <3