Well shoot. The only update I can give for Don't Toy With Me is that it's going to be after the end of NaNoRenO that it actually goes up. I got about 1.1k more written since my last update, which isn't much, but on top of being busy with irl stuff, I was pretty demotivated by still not finding a solution to my audio problem. I wound up not even looking for music for it since I couldn't even get simple sound effects to work. I'll continue working on the rest of the game moving forward since I'm still determined to get it posted, but it's absolutely going to be late. I'll let you know next update whether two extra weeks was enough to finish. Progress Summary :
I don't think I've mentioned it before but I have a nice arrangement with my bestie Zee that every Sunday we have a Writing Check In. She's got her project she shares with me as she writes it (not sure if she'd like to talk publicly about it yet so we'll leave it at that!) and I bombard her with VN draft scripts whenever I have them ready. The idea is mainly to ensure we write something every week since we know the other will be expecting it, but it's low stakes since it's just us and we know we'll be the only ones reading this version of our writing. Anyway, this is all just to explain that today is Writing Check In, I had nothin', and I was still feeling burned on Don't Toy With Me, so I did some writing for In Your Nature and it went better than usual. I wrote a sort of pre-story chapter to introduce the threat of the story, similar to how a lot of horror movies have a cold open before introducing the actual main characters. It wound up almost hitting 4k words in one session, when I'm feeling pretty good about. I'm hoping to integrate a couple of small effects from your choices in the prologue into later in the story, since I really enjoy that sort of butterfly effect in VNs. I did a lot of reading on another VN during my wallowing and it gave me a lot of inspiration as well as ideas on things that could improve about my current outline, including further diverging major routes, so we'll see whether helps me put out bigger chunkier updates in the future. Progress Summary:
Bonus portrait sprite concepting sketches. How do I draw this girl again? KeychainsSo, Vograce was having a promotion on a new type of acrylic keychain and I used it as an excuse to kick my butt into gear and finally try out their service. It's also more motivation to figure out my online store. Ko-fi has its drawbacks, with having to handle my own sales tax payments and needing a Seller's Permit in my state. I still need to find out if Shopify has similar drawbacks or not, since selling through a "storefront" like Etsy exempts you from those kinds of requirements here since they handle it for you. My point is, I don't know when they'll be available, but I ordered 10 keychains with this x-ray bunny girl design to test the waters. Plus one for me because I too want a spooky bunny babe. They'll be 2.5" inches at their longest point and the background color will be frosted film on the acrylic. I picked a thick black kind of clip too since I find actual keychain rings really hard to use. But maybe I just have brittle nails? Hopefully they turn out nice!
A short one this week but thank you for reading all the same! -Karma
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