ArgamaWitch

Dev Diary

Dear Diary! lol

So for the past week I've been running a subathon on twitch so I can afford music, voice actors, a singer, and few other things. The subathon was a good start so I feel I can get a lot done with that money, depending on the Voice Actors costs.

I'll be taking the next week off to revitalize as that subathon took it out of me, and I'll work on the rest of the story. If I finish it, I'll start scripting it out, along with making a list of VAs I'm going to need, som...

PMTS game is now listed on Steam

Its coming soon, and although as patreon members, you dont need to worry too much about it since you will be getting it for free though Patreon.

Playtest form deadline

The playtest form will be closing on the 29th (This form)
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1bkdzBsfO-tOzrzEMxKhaXGL6Zzq8NzIjOTCxhoI6NU0/

So if youd like to fill out the form it would help out to how I can change the game for the release on steam's demo. :>

Just wanted to give a little heads up that it will be inactive after the 29th.

Dev Diary

I didnt have a Dev Diary last week as I was releasing the game for you guys. This week has been mostly me trying to recover from my bad back and overworking myself.
However I've been working on trying to get my game up on steam. I've purchased the game page, and I'm waiting for my store page to be approved

 Even after that is done, I couldn't release the game or demo until after 21 days, w...

Prologue Release for Patreon!

So the prologue is short, just a demo. However, I now have it available for playing. If you experience a bug in the game, there is a small icon in the top left corner to report it. I have a mac build and Pc build you can download



If you would like to give your feed back I have a few forms. The first is a short feedback form, just asks a few questions to gauge a rough idea. 2024-05-22 21:09:13 +0000 UTC View Post

Illustration

I made this. lol

Dev Diary

This week was working on artwork mostly. I finished up two side characters art for Sarah and Brandon. I also rigged them but Brandon has a few issues that need to be worked on next week.

I also spent way way way way too long on trying to adjust UI noises, which I made a new one (technically like 6 ...

Dev Diary

I've been a bit forgetful in filling out my notebook (which reminds me what I've done this week), and I've been feeling exhausted from pushing so hard for the past month and a half, so this weeks dev diary may be a bit lacking.

I finished another characters Live2d (for the prologue, more work will need to be done on him later)

I've been experimenting with adding breath, I've ...

PMTS manuscript

For giggles I decided to format my manuscript for the visual novel in a novel format for 8x11 paper size book, and it comes up to 237 pages in this format. :O Normal I write single space font 10 which brings it down to 94, but man, its interesting how long it is if it was formatted like a novel.

I'm thinking the story is just over the half way mark, or at least that was my goal.

Anyways thats my update for now, just something I found amusing.

Dev Diary

Back (day early) for next Dev Diary!

This weeks I managed to get a bit done but not too much to show.

I finished writing up to chapter 15 (novel format) which is like the halfway point of the story. This is a part of the story that I've had in my head since I started writing the story. So that is very exciting.

I haven't finished main character Colleen's art, but started rigging it for the first part and have that set up in the game.

2024-04-26 19:45:03 +0000 UTC View Post

Since Sarah isn't designed completely yet...

So since Sarah wasn't completely designed and her dialogue is very limited in the first part, it would be easy enough to adjust accordingly (not that anything she says is particularly distinct. However I doodled some chibi designs. I figured I'd let you guys have at it. There is one I'm rather leaning towards, and one that I feel would overshadow the main characters design, lol But let me know which design you guys like.

2024-04-25 20:44:53 +0000 UTC View Post

Lack of Diversity

I was realizing my game sort of lacks diversity. I wrote it about 15 years ago, and just sort of wrote it like for me. A white person. I wasn't even considering race or anything like that in the mix. As it stands now there are a few characters

Main character: Colleen - her art is already done so I'd like to keep her kinda as is.

Side Character: Brandon - I dont have his art yet, I did plan on having him more tanned skin.

Side Character: Sarah - I'm still working on her d...

This makes me laugh

Adding the better art in, and it got to this and her blushing over a stick figure makes me giggle. hehehe

Le reee

I'm having some issues with trying to create a fake language, because of inconsistencies I'm picking up. Its kinda frustrating and I'm starting to feel like I should just go with whatever... but also no. I dunno this is just me venting because I'm having to go back and fixing vocab words and realizing that some nouns are verbs and so on. wljkladjflajfdalskfj lol

Example: established Yuon as meaning Moon but then goes to translate it to tae and other shit and I'm like roar. Being that ...

Ahh!

I accidently, at some point, deleted a whole chapter! like last week or something, so I'm trying to find it in an older version and splice it with my current version T0T ahh

Dev Log Diary

This week has been kind of all over the place.

I mostly worked on the main story (So while I have a story, written like a novel, and a script, so this is for the novel like story) I wrote 2 more chapters, fixed some continuity issues.

I also worked on one of the other main characters designs, which I'm not done with so I don't feel comfortable enough showing it yet.

I've recorded sample voice acting (which if I can, I'd like to hire more of a professional VA, I've talked to...

Weekly Dev Log

I forget the number we are on, so just now Weekly Dev Log lol.
So this week, I've finished all the prologue background images.

I remade the UI, the text box, quick menu graphics (which you've seen in previous posts) but I moved them to the upper right corner


I made graphics for the control page....

New UI

So I was thinking the other dialogue box didnt fit, so I made a different one but I'm still not 100% sure about this one but shared anyways.

Side tabs experimenting

So this is basically what the side tabs would look like (although I'd probably move it behind the menu. Thoughts?

Quick Menu...problems?

In Visual Novels there is a quick menu for saving, viewing logs, etc, and for mine I wanted a rather clean UI, so all the buttons are there, but I divided it into 2 sections. The first is the Back and Save that's always on screen. It's right under the dialogue. The rest are in a hamburger menu in the upper right screen.

So the problem I'm running into is when the dialogue box is not on screen, the Back and Save of the Quick Menu are still on the screen, and it looks distractin...

Dev log 3

So this week there isn't that much I've done. I've been in and out of sorts, but have decided on how to do my backgrounds. Building 3D models is much more labor intensive for someone like me who isn't that familiar with Blender. So instead I decided to use Sims 4. XD I'll be building up areas and taking screen shots to use as bases for my backgrounds.
It was recommended by Eisu to share on Patreon the Nonsense I'm doing where I spent more time building things than need! Lol.
Her...