The World of Nanyevimi

(Main project at the moment being 'Nanyevimi Market Quest') *(% updated as of Aug 2025)*

This is a version copied from a pinned post in the discord server, and I'll probably pin it here at the moment, try to keep them updated simultaneously. Since I reference it in Updates occasionally, it'd be weird to not have present the context of the 'Main Progress Percentages' I'm talking about lol.

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🌷 Planning/Worldbuilding/Basic Structure - 98% Complete 🌼 Art - 82 % Complete 🌷 GUI/buttons and screens and stuff/art - 98 % Complete 🌼 Main Quests 1 Writing - 98 % Complete 🌷 Main Quests 2 Writing - 70 % Complete 🌼 Main Quests 3 Writing - 10 % Complete 🌷 Main Quests 4 Writing - 10 % Complete 🌼 Side characters quests writing - 45% Complete 🌷 Finishing proofread (final playthrough of the game before other people actually see it) - 0% complete (since everything else has to be done to do that lol) 🌼 Extra world writing (side encounters, community board, etc.) - 96 % Complete 🌷 Item art, descriptions, planning, inventory, gifting system - 95% Complete 🌼 Journal, dictionary writing + code (adding the variables to keep track of each dictionary term mention, etc.) - 85 % Complete 🌷 Achievement art, descriptions, etc. - 90 % Complete 🌼 General other coding - 82 % Complete 🌷 Music - 22 % Complete 🌼 Itchio page layout, descriptions, promotional art type stuff - 58 % Complete 🌷 Writing playtester documents (like google feedback form, posts) - 55 % Complete 🌼 Finding playtesters - 10 % Complete

Assuming each category being 100% done = 100 points. Then there's 1800 points total, and 1500 game points (things which ONLY have to do with finishing the game itself, not marketing or playtesters) - adding all percentages together to get points. ~ Thus, current level of completion is: ⭐️ Getting the game in it's initial playable demo state exclusively: 981/1500 (65.4% done) ⭐️ ALL work total: 1104/1800 (61.3% done)

Extra Note: 'Main Quest 3&4' could be combined, only counting 50 points each, as I'm narrowing scope to only TWO primary characters with fully finished questlines at initial "demo version" release (though other main characters will have still one trial quest available each). I started the game around 2019, then largely abandoned it from 2020 - 2023 (many Life Things going on.. aughhh), only resuming it as a #1 Focus of mine in late 2024. As my chronic illness has gotten worse, I feel increasingly motivated to just get SOME version out asap (though still 100% playable/all core features present - just a few quests missing), then simply modify from there. It seems to be viewed badly when game companies put out partially finished things - but hopefully since it's more of a "one person doing everything only in their spare time" situation + I am not directly selling the game (will be listed as 'pay what you want' on itch.io), it's a bit more understandable. I thought it'd just be more practical to first check if there's actually any interest before devoting one billion more hours to writing more it's possible nobody would even see (especially given how many other creative projects I juggle, which I could be putting time towards instead lol..).

✨ Other Links ✨ (since this is serving as a pinned post for the time being)

⭐️ List of other projects from the same worldbuilding setting that I work on occasionally in the background - (link) ⭐️ Main art blog - (link) ⭐️ Itch.io - (link)

It's been a while since the last update, I keep saying I'd like to be more consistent lol.. but I had many appointments in a row, alas.. I've mostly just been doing art, and proofreading of some of the quests around town.

I actually should probably subtract 5% from the 'completeness percentage total' lol, as I didn't realize that there are a few bits for the extra side characters you can talk to that are incomplete. I have the main conversational part finished, but there are one or two dialogue branches in question menus and such that are just the plain draft text (not proofread, and not with their pictures added). Which, at least they're written, like.. it's still 90% done, I just have to change a few words around, but still, that does take extra time to go back over, so it's a little backtracky/would rather be working on the newer stuff.

(I think that's part of why I have trouble posting updates reliably, even though I keep thinking it will ~help me stay consistent with making progress~ or etc. - it's also like.. most of what I'm doing is not very visual or really much to post about, since aside from some background art, it's all text based. It's like writing a novel.. Do people even post updates when writing a novel? I feel like there's not much to say. So if I updated daily it would just be like.. "edited text today" "wrote text today" "edited text again" "wrote words and changed a menu around" "typed more words" "hehe another day of typing words #mywords" etc. )

Anyway - I finished what is, I think, the last remaining background image, which is what shows when you're generally on the street out in the world but not in anyone's shop in specific. It actually was taking me forever because I was adding all this detail to the houses and stuff, but then I zoomed out and realized that literally none of it is that visible, AND especially won't be once the image is blurred, so then I just scribbled everything really quickly at the end.

This makes it funny though to see the non-blurred image, where the quick scribbliness is visible, especially in the people on the street

I actually did this one just digitally, so I think now I need to go add a grainy filter over it or something, as it doesn't match the look of all the other backgrounds (which have lines handdrawn on paper, scanned into the computer, then colored digitally. That naturally leaves a bit of a "texture" from the paper (especially since I'm actually just taking a brightly lit picture with my camera because I don't have a real scanner lol), so fully digital art lacks that bit of fuzziness the rest of the games background stuff has... hmm)..

(Originally from 9/7/25 -- Still copying most of the old updates from the updates section of the discord server I've made for the game, to repost them here (then once caught up will post both at the same time of course lol))

Mostly just proofreading stuff again for the past few days. A little organizing of quests and re-ordering chat menus and such.

Made a quick little gif to display when you're sleeping at the Inn at night to restore energy points lol.. I might would do something more polished later, but it's okay for a placeholder sort of thing now. I really just want to have all the initial art in place and everything ready for playtesting as soon as possible - I can make stuff look a little nicer (if needed) later.

(I know that the moon and sun are separate things and do not randomly transform into each other as the gif might imply.. but it's Stylized so… hopefully clear it's only an aesthetic decision.. I also have "interrogate and analyze every single thing you see to evaluate its accuracy/practicality/etc" disorder, so maybe most people don't even think about that when they look at it LOL… anyway..)

(also, you can't actually add gifs straight to ren'py, at least as far as I can tell from looking it up. you either have to do it as a video, or just a quick slideshow of multiple images displayed for like half a second each (what I did). This gif was just made to post here basically)

(Originally from 9/2/25 -- Still copying most of the old updates from the updates section of the discord server I've made for the game, to repost them here (then once caught up will post both at the same time of course lol))

Not much on the actual game today, but I did spend a few hours re-proofreading and organizing the discord, changing around some of the main channels (turning some from the normal text chatting channels into "forum" channels or whatever, as that layout seemed more suitable), adjusting descriptions, etc. etc. Just to hopefully get it prepared to start formally inviting people to it occasionally/talking publicly about it. Though still likely many things will change over time as I learn about the format.

I did about 20 minutes here and there on art when I can, in between appointments or other tasks, and am almost finished fully proofreading all of Kallet's chat menus and etc.

Now turning my attention to drafting promotional posts/how to publicly talk about the game, + stuff like a roadmap of what order things will be completed in after the initial ""demo"" sort of version release (not sure what to call it, since it won't be 100% done, but it will be like… 70% done and fully playable in all ways with all features available except for just some character quests needing to be written so.. is that a Demo?? probably need to find out what to call it during 'marketing' lol..)).

I know the order on paper, but should do a little drawing that looks nice, a roadmap image. Since part of my thing is that I don't want to invest one billion more hours into this project if nobody at all cares about it/would like to put out a proof of concept first to check if there's interest before completing the game 100%, I was thinking about having the next steps on the roadmap based on stuff like that. Like "once the game gets 200 downloads and however many ratings and blah blah, then I'll finish two more full questlines" (<not sure realistic metrics to use, but one gets the point lol). So I'll have to find a way to neatly convey all that and look Organized in a single graph or whatever.

Anyway… game RELATED work today, less so directly on game itself. Progress nonetheless.

(Originally from 8/26/25 -- Still copying most of the old updates from the updates section of the discord server I've made for the game, to repost them here (then once caught up will post both at the same time of course lol))

I also finished doing some of the art previously mentioned. I only have 2 more backgrounds to finish, and I edited all that had to be changed. Most were minor alterations. Like for example, one had a polaroid style photo hung up in the background as decoration - which I wasn't thinking about back in 2019 when I did the initial art, because then I didn't even have a set location for where the game takes place other than "somewhere in my world". But now I know that that sort of technology would not exist in this area in that form, so it wouldn't make sense for it to be in the background (I just colored over it so now there's a blank spot on the wall lol).

The one edited the most heavily from it's original version is probably the background for the Traveler's Lounge, which I tried to make feel less... empty? Especially since it's one of the first places you see in the game.

The art is SUPER sloppy, but that's because I know it's just going to be blurred anyway, so really only the general outline of shapes and colors needs to be clear, it doesn't have to be pristinely polished lol. (final backgrounds generally look more along the lines of this below (though note: it still might change more later, so this is not a final image))

This helps save a LOT of time, but ALSO, is something I would do anyway?? I feel like when there's a super busy background, sometimes the character images don't stand out as well and it looks too visually cluttered. By slightly blurring the background, it makes a distinction in focus, the character and background don't muddle into a mess. This is apparently the most odd thing I have done (unknowingly? I thought it would be normal lol). Like when I made the other smaller visual novel game a while back, I very often got in feedback that people didn't like blurred backgrounds and they wanted to be able to see them fully.

It's too late to do anything about that stylistic decision (I'd have to redraw all of them, because they can't look THIS sloppy and be unblurred LOL, plus I'd have to edit every single character image to give them an outline or something to make them stand out as distinct from the background and not a visual mess), but maybe I can post the 'unblurred' backgrounds somewhere at some point, just so people can see them optionally if they want to. :0c

I think maybe with a typical Clean And Polished art style this isn't a problem, but because of my more sketchy "everything is handdrawn in pencil on paper then scanned and colored digitally" type of style, it makes it more prone to visual clutter and "messy" looking-ness (because the backgrounds all have just as harsh dark black lines as the character art does, don't really 'blend in' or look like as 'soft' as a backdrop should be or something lol.. to MY eyes at least).

ANYWAY.. some recent art progress as well. Maybe the random rambling is weird. Since I'm trying to make my updates seem more Official (than just posting an image of a sad cat with the caption "ougghhh 50 word todey"), I guess I thought including details might help, if people find the process neat or something.

(Originally from 8/26/25 -- Still copying most of the old updates from the updates section of the discord server I've made for the game, to repost them here (then once caught up will post both at the same time of course lol))

Haven't made all that much progress the past few days as I've been busy with appointments, plus unwell during heatwaves -_- (of course.. the Evil Summer strikes again), but I have managed to do some proofreading of this section of text recently. So.. not writing 4000 words, but doing the ''finishing'' of them (at least for the initial '95% done' proofread. as done as it will be before playtesters see it, but less done than the final version perhaps), so at least that's something.

For some of the characters that have distinct 'voices', like typing quirks that indicate how they speak ("nothin' " instead of "nothing", etc.), I may often write their lines "normally" upon initial draft, just getting out the gist of what I want them to say, then on proofreading, go back and edit to make their speech style consistent.

Also, I generally change character facial expression for each new line of dialogue (so the image changes slightly, adds a little variance to otherwise a very still and text-based experience lol), and sometimes I leave those out on the initial writing too. I'll just have the 'neutral expression character image' showing through the whole entire section for the whole time, then when I proofread, I go back and add an image change in between each dialogue line.

(Originally from 8/8/25 - 11pm -- I'm copying most of the old updates from the updates section of the discord server I've made for the game, to repost them here (then once caught up will post both at the same time of course lol) (so also if they seem weirdly written, it's because they were originally discord posts)

Achievement names and descriptions hidden as I guess they'd count as spoilers (moreso the descriptions, for people who'd rather figure how to earn them on their own rather than already knowing the requirements) - BUT, today I've finally finished all the art and added them to the journal page. There will only be 24 achievements in the initial sample version of the game, since of course not all quests will be available at first, with hopefully more to be added later as new quests are finished and updated. Anyway.. though I haven't gone through and made them all attainable in the code yet (like, actually placing in the specific quest where they come up, 'if X then whatevervariant == True' blah blah), but at least the images are done and added to the journal page, that's the most tedious part.

My current aim is to finish ALL of the art relevant things first, so that the whole like… structure of the game (navigation, visuals - anything that isn't writing and music) will be entirely done, and then all I have to do is the writing. That way if something happens (apartment burns down or something and I decide 'f*ck it I'll just publish what I have and give up on it at the moment' lol, etc.), it'd be easier to put it out in whatever state it's in, as it'd still be 100% playable with all assets done, just not having ALL the text added yet…. if that makes sense..

ANYWAY. I still have about 3 environment backgrounds to finish coloring, and 2 to edit (because their original versions from 2019 are no longer lore accurate) and then one gif to make. I think there may be some spots during quests where it would feel more immersive to cut away from the typical shop background image and go to another custom image based on what's being described (like if the writing says youre in an attic exploring but the background is still the same shop picture), but.. I think any of those I'll just have to decide upon when playing through all for the Main Big Proofreading, and see if I need them. Or maybe playtesters could suggest them. I'm just going to ignore those though and not count them towards 'Images I Must Finish', since they're not technically an absolute necessity, and I also don't know what they are yet lol.. :3c But generally… I guess that's not much to do.. progresse…

I also want to make more efforts in terms of advertising the game, or.. building some sort of knowledge of it (I think people are supposed to be aware of it BEFORE it comes out, so they say (They being like.. socially normal people who can promote things effectively)).. So I should probably invite people to this discord, or like make more social media posts about progress publicly, or do some sort of project roadmap I can publish, or… uh…….. I really don't care or have an action plan actually, but it's just a thing I think about. 'hmm I should do this!' (< doesn't do it). It's something I'm giving Contemplation to at least, so I guess it counts as progress. Planning stages.. pretend to feel productive..

Okay… thus ends this game progress log I suppose.. Solidly almost a month since the last one, I am very very good at social media. Also a longer one. I guess they should be more Formal and Professional, from a 'taking yourself seriously making a game' perspective. But I do find charming a simple cat meme instead.,, hrmmp

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