December, 16th

Hey guys it’s Joy, it’s been a super productive week for me! The game is starting to feel like an RPG and not just a visual novel with walking sections, and whack ass combat lmfaoooo. Because I am in my work groove, I wanted the devlog to be simple this week, but also special 🤭. Why?

✨Community Content ✨ (I couldn’t think of a better word/phrase for it, I’m sorry lol- this game is draining me of all my creative juices 😭)  

What is “Community content”? A great question! It’s my way of thanking those who have followed the devlogs this long! I only have 2 more after this one and that’s it! Then we will be in post Lord of Lies release date time, and idk the world explodes or something.

I’ve spent so many hours with this project, it’s consumed my every waking thought and soon it will just be done. 🧍- Can you tell I am excited and nervous, and aghhhh!?

Anyway, for the community content- I wanted to thank you guys by having your ideas/writing in the actual game?!

I have a lot of NPC’s, weapons/armor/items, and written content that needs to be in the game, and I thought you guys could help me!

So, I made a google form properly detailing what I’m looking for!

This devlog is just this, this week. So if you’re not interested in participating that’s no problem at all. I completely understand and hope to see you the next two weeks.

For those that are interested, here’s the link to the google form- 

Google Form Here

Now, I don’t want to say there is a deadline, but I need one lol. I need to be able to get everything in before the release day of December 31st, so let’s try to shoot for Christmas to get your responses in, after that point, I cannot guarantee I can get it in the final version of the game. Hope you understand.

Next Week’s Devlog Sneak Peak

I will update my progress yet again, share some fun little screenshots, and discuss more of the dreaded game dev process lolol. (It’s been great, all things considered tbh).

I look forward to seeing you guys’ contributions for the in game content, and I want to thank you for a third time, thank you thank you for reading these devlogs. I genuinely used to think people just ‘talked’ about reading devlogs, they never actually engaged with them. I was very wrong and have since learned from my ways.

I really would love to do more devlogs for future projects, specifically for my Otome Jam 2024 project next year 👀

Also, the biggest thanks to Cherish for being my Indie Dev Secret Santa and made this jaw-dropping piece of Lawrence and Gala for the holidays!

They mentioned reading these devlogs before getting me as their giftee and I am still OBSESSED with it! (it’s my PC background currently 🫣)

Check out their stuff! https://twitter.com/Retro_TheGame, they’re super sweet and incredibly talented as you can see! 

That’s it for this week folks, until next Saturday! Byeeeeee! (Don’t forget the google form lol)