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May 2025 Update

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I expect to move on from the second arc and into the second interlude between now and the next update. Very excited since it'll be a very special chapter! This month, there was a good week or so I spent working on some graphics to post on socials, and it ended up driving me a bit crazy. There are a lot of elements that ended up going into it, haha! I ended up doing a few things I didn’t plan, like drawing the title logo and animating… Neither of those things ended up as anything particularly astounding, but it’s always nice to take your first steps into something new.

I've also been able to start tweaking the UI a bit. There's still a bit of work to go!

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April 2025 Update

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2/3rds of the way through the second arc. With this semester coming to a close, I very much look forward to having more time to work on the story!

I was aiming to get it done this month, but I’ll have to move my UI tweaking to May. Hopefully these screenshots will start looking a bit different next time!

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March 2025 Update

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I’m halfway through the second arc now, so progress is good! I do have something of a deadline for myself, so by the mid of the year I should hopefully be able to confidently(?) state the approximate release time for this project. Also, two lovely ladies have been added to the side character list! It’s finally completed! One character just spoke so much she escaped from minor character status…

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February 2025 Update

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Time marches on, and so does progress! I’ll be jumping into the coding proper for the 2nd arc after the next batch of art is finished. It’s difficult to not want to stop and polish things up, but I get plenty of reminders to not focus on that sort of thing, luckily. Of late, I’ve been thinking more and more on the subject of advertising. It got me to really consider what the focus of the story was on, and I realized that there is quite a bit of focus on familial relations and daily life routine. The whole story is already outlined to the very end, so that definitely won’t change for the majority of it, but it’s a bit funny to realize that a good chunk of this is ‘slice of life’.

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January 2025 Update

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It’s a new year! I’m optimistic about progress, and things have been going pretty smoothly.

As I write, I’ve found that there’s an inclination to create certain scenes with many choice menus in mind…though, this is for the sole purpose of character/scene engagement, and there are no correct or wrong answers. When the finished product is done, feel free to complain if there’s too many buttons. It’s really fun implementing them.

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December 2024 Update

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I hope everyone had a good Christmas and holidays!

I've gotten a lot of art done during this period, and due to that, there's another update for the side character page! There's only one more character to go and it'll be completed.

Having finished Toto’s arc, I think it turned out a lot like the character. If that’s a trend with the boys, I think Johannes’ is going to be a hoot to write!

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November 2024 Update

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The first arc is about done. I need to get the code for Ch. 3 in, and then it’s onto the second arc first interlude.

I’m a beginner at both writing and coding, so working on this has been both fun and painful…I’m really learning a lot.

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October 2024 Update

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I’m behind where I wanted to be, but the (very long) Ch. 2 draft is completed and currently being whisked into renpy at this very moment.

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Side characters have been updated!

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September 2024 Update

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About finished with the draft for Ch. 2! By next month, I should be done with the first arc.

I also plan to get back to work on the art side of things, so there should be an update for the side character page between now and then.

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August 2024 Update

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About done with the Ch.1 draft. Much less to contend with next month, so things should move along faster.

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July 2024 (last second) Update

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I didn’t expect to make this at the rear end of the month, but that’s how things turned out!

I’ve got real life and another VN to deal with at the moment, but I will continue to do my best to make progress with this project. I’ve managed to get the first round of backgrounds and sprites settled in, so I should be able to get back to writing shortly.

The plan is to be more specific with where I’m at in the future, so look forward to that when I manage to get back into the swing of things…

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Side characters have been updated!