#sandwichdevlog

Hi everyone. Just letting you know I’m going on hiatus as my mental health has been taking more snakes than ladders.

I hope to be back sooner rather than later, but I just need a break from being online.

Hope you’re all doing well 💙

Hello everyone! Apologies for missing last week’s devlog, I’ve been very busy! I’m entering a couple of game jams over the next few months and I’ve been chipping away at them this past week.

We’re also coming up on the 1 year anniversary of the Vespertines demo release so I want to do something special for that!

New projects!!

1. Anti-Romance Game Jam! I am working with a small team (including Jasper of @townofcrosshollow fame on art duties 👀) on a little cyberpunk game. We have a wonderful composer who has already done amazing work on the main theme of the game, which you can listen to here! (It’s beautiful and atmospheric and I love it ❤️❤️)

I’m working primarily on the story and dialogue and directing the team which has been extremely cool and nerve wracking at the same time.

2. The Neo Twiny Game Jam! I haven’t decided what I’m doing for this yet but I’m really looking forward to it—I love microfiction.

Things I achieved since last update

🌸 Developed the premise and overall theme of the Anti-Romance submission, as well as organised the team a bit

🌸 26,714 words total for Vespertines. Chapter 2 word count is a bit confusing as there is a heap of stuff there that I might actually push to chapter 3 …

🌸 Worked more on the visuals for Lady Knights VN

I might be a bit busy over the next few weeks so if I don’t update, that’s why, but here’s what I plan to be working on:

💭 anti-romance jam story and structure

💭 More Vespertines words when I can

Let’s jump right in shall we?

Stuff I achieved this week:

- Chapter 2 word count is up to 6,517 and chapter 2 is starting to take shape in a big way. I’m hoping this will mean that future words will come more easily.

- Edited (culled) some bad writing. RIP.

- Did a fair amount more plotting for the middle and end of the game.

- Total word count for the game is somewhere around the 24,000 word mark at the moment.

- Fixed the issue I was having with Scrivener.

- Set up a regular writing schedule with my partner who is also a writer, which seems to be working pretty well.

What I plan to achieve next week:

- 4000 words is turning out to be ambitious. I’m going to reset my expectations and aim for 2000 this week, with the ultimate aim of increasing the pace.

And as a bonus:

I put this little snippet up on Discord. If you zoom in you can see a sneak peek of a date with Ash for a later chapter. (Also, as someone in the discord pointed out, kind of a face reveal. Except you can’t really see my face.)