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I started concepting this project around mid-2024 and wrote two drafts and began "development" in 2025. I put development in quotes because it feels weird to call it that so officially when this is something that Im purely doing on my own time outside of work and other things, whenever I have both time and energy. Im trying to lock in more though! this is something I really want to make

in this visual novel we follow Em ("M", left in the art) and five assorted days from a period of time. so the game is split into five "days", which are chronologically spread out over a few months in-universe but do follow each other. not only does she meet the mysterious customer called Veil (right in the art), but she also seems to know something about some off-putting rumors about a previous worker who had disappeared...

the story is based on the prompt of what if the alluring mysterious visitor was a beautiful masc* lesbian... and also that "monster that may or may not eat you" part. that last bit turned out a bit different than even I thought though 🦀 by the way, there is no romance in this game lol. there's some ~bits~ but they are mostly just one-sided and not exactly love lol *fyi, I do not call her a butch lesbian because I feel that I dont feel that I have a good enough understanding of butch-femme dynamics as of right now lol, and also Im referring to presentation so I realize its more accurate to stick to this probably (is this where I should mention that Im a lesbian too) tangent aside...

right now Im focused on creating a sort of beta version of day 1. this isnt a public demo (though I guess i should consider that later down the line), but I figured it was more productive to try and do this rather than copy all the script into code and then have the "whole" thing to start adding code things into. this would help me hone my skills with Renpy better as its my first time programming a visual novel (or much of anything). by focusing on completing a day 1, which is shorter and contained, I can practice sprite-work (in the code itself, how it appears between/with dialogue, not the graphics themselves), pacing, adding music, transitions, etc in a more manageable chunk