December's Devlog

Hello everyone, Keyko here, back with our monthly discussion about progress. We have a special surprise in store for you guys in the next update. I don’t want to say a lot because talking about it is basically gonna ruin the whole thing, but it’s music related. A dear friend of mine has been helping me with it. I picked him up directly from his work on Cienie, BenBinturong. (If you haven't read his VN please do? It’s, like, incredibly good.) Anyway, things have been hectic on my end, I realized that from January 1st to like, 15th February? I’m going to be on hiatus again. Mom wants to travel then I want to visit my husband before my birthday and then spend time at his place to celebrate, basically a whole month goes down the drain.

I have paused work on previous content, so no more N2 fixes until March, and I’ve been doing my best to prepare two more route updates before I’m gone. That way the content is there and you guys won’t feel my absence. I… hope to succeed? At best I can get one more done and there’s going to be a tiny hole. I’m basically almost done with Ryan 5 anyway so I can jump into the next one just fine.

Speaking of old content— I think that I will adjust N2s (only grammar wise) and that’s it? I think D3 is too convoluted for me to touch. I’m not kidding. The coding for those days specifically is a mess and when I look at it my brain explodes. It works, but you don’t want to look at it, you’ll pop. It’s because of the A/B side that I wanted to make, but was too ambitious and gave up on it. I say this but I may still try. I can’t stand the idea of having sentences that don’t make sense, it’s an insult to you but also to me as a writer.

If the game drops on Steam it has to look the best it can possibly be, people will stop playing for the simplest reasons and I want things to be good.

I’ve been a bit sad lately, Clyde didn’t get any attention at all. Usually I see a few Patrons pledging to get the update, but this time nobody did and that’s fine. I guess it does make me feel bad. It’s not surprising to me because we’ve always been kinda invisible compared to all the other VNs and I wish I could find a way to spread but that’s not my field. I know nothing about it. I just focus on doing what I love doing and that’s it. You can’t blame me for wanting the silence to end. I love every bit of attention I can get. It feels lonely sometimes.

Besides! Russell and Liam are planned. Those might under-perform just as much as Clyde did (which is a shame cause Clyde 4 is the best day!). I need to get used to this feeling that not everything will always work out.

I’m sorry for this little rant, I try to be as open and honest as possible and it wouldn’t be fair of me to say oh I’ve been good. I wasn’t. But I was also happy. Creating content, showing it to my friends and having them appreciate it does make me happy. I’m proud of it. It’s the reach that’s missing. Only my closest friends seem to know I exist and that fucking sucks?

The character reveal for this month is Daniel! The owner of the Saffron’s Stash, my beloved biggest and oldest man in the series. Ugh, I love this bear so much.