《CBF》九月开发日志：爆炸级美术进展、服务器周年庆与写作进度回顾

lock in gamers, game devs, and enjoyers of ludicrous art and writing progress, I've got a huge recap for September!!!!! also omg the editing trenches this month were insane but we got through it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This devlog is a crosspost! I release these one week early for patrons at any amount of donation as enormous thanks for supporting my indie dev. If you'd like to see the OG post with everything in high res or the rest of the beeg and beefy vn dev archive, you can check that out here!

ALL ART FOR THE PROLOGUE IS COMPLETE:

13 unique images for some demon-filled fun and animations in our opening scene!
A fully colored and rendered CG finished!!! That CG is here in high res for patrons at any tier as huge thanks for all the support!!!!!!!!!!
Polished and adjusted the verrry tall and vertical background image for a text crawl sequence at the end of the Prologue!

5 BACKGROUNDS ARE COLORED AND RENDERED:

Basalen Woods
An underground avalanche
A flooding waterway
A cobweb covered corridor
A highly interactive location with a whopping 8 variants!!!

3 items are rendered and finished, ready for looting :D

1 ADDITIONAL ACTION CG WITH CHARACTER ART IS RENDERED AND COLORED TOO!!

That's a total of 24 pieces finished in September alone for the demo!!!!!

So pleased. So many bingos. I baked myself some pumpkin muffins to celebrate. 🧡

This game is fucking MAASSSSIVE and I will be doing art for a good, long while, but SO PROUD to share with you all how it's coming along!

I actually made 8 variants of the party hat for Malimos to celebrate for our anniversary stream lmao

COMMUNITY

Our community Discord server celebrated its anniversary!!! I streamed my current progress on the demo of CBF with a tooooon of behind-the-scenes talk and got to share my huge progress with animations and art!! Silly VA and memes were in abundance. I had an absolutely amazing time, thank you so much to everyone who joined in!!!
Had an absolutely amazing 2 critique group meetings and had glooowwwing praise for the very very difficult tragedy writing I've been working on!
Four (4!!) script readings in VC with our community Discord were SPECTACULAR for helping me power through self-editing a huge volume of difficult writing!!!!
Hit 3.1k followers on Bluesky!!!!!!! Thank you guys so much for the reposts and for following!!!!
I'm all about spreading the indie dev love. For the sake of never putting all my eggs in one basket, I created a lovely Fluxer server as well! It's a Discord alternative that prides itself on user privacy and accessibility. You can check it out here if you're curious!

PROGRAMMING

Holy fucking shit animation in Ren'Py is a beast lmao. Scripting everything for the Prologue (camera, animations, transitions, etc.) is now complete however!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YIPPEEE!!!!
I identified unexpected behavior from a function that handles the text crawl code! It's a quirk with using Ren'Py transforms and Python functions. Woops. This is why I vigorously playtest heheh. It's on my priority list and will be addressed before the public release of the demo. 💖

WRITING

The end of the Vengeance hard branch is a challenge. To put it mildly.

wild shit

I don't back down from challenges, though, my dear reader. 💪🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Chapter 40-3: Requiem | 2,674 WORDS FULLY WRITTEN AND EDITED

Chapter 41-3: Generosity | 4,219 WORDS FULLY WRITTEN AND EDITED

Chapter 42-3: The Mouth of Madness | 2,649 WORDS FULLY WRITTEN AND EDITED

Chapter 43-3: Liability | 4,231 WORDS FULLY WRITTEN AND EDITED

Chapter 44-3: The Catalyst | ~7,541 WORDS FULLY WRITTEN, EDITING

Chapter 45-3: Rectitude | ~4,572 WORDS FULLY WRITTEN, EDITING

THAT'S 13,773 WORDS FOR THE PLAYER (with all combinations of choices combined) FULLY LINE EDITED AND READY TO SCRIPT!

FOR A GRAND TOTAL OF 25,886 WORDS OF SCRIPT WRITTEN THIS MONTH!

My best attempts to continue providing a simple visual of the [eldritch] writing and narrative design progress.

Nothing else is going to be as complex or involved as this Vengeance content. My prior devlog on the difficulties that writing an unreliable narrator in second person perspective covers in great detail some of the reasons why this end-game content has been QUITE TRICKY for me this month! DOING IT THO RAAAAAAAAAAAAAA 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥✍

Thank you all for the incredible motivation, support, and for cheering me on while I plow through creating such an ambitious passion project!!!! I'm so excited to share more progress in the coming weeks. It's increasingly challenging for me to have the strength of will to not share massive spoilers and every pixel of progress, but I am so glad to give this window into just how much content I'm steamrolling through!!!!

I hope you can find some brightness and joy in such difficult times, whether it's through my silly devlogs here or in everything else that you do! Thank you very much again for the amazing support and I hope you have a great rest of your month too. I'll be sharing much more progress in October (goth Christmas) and can't wait to hear your guys thoughts!

Feel free to leave a comment on this post or let me know what you enjoyed in our community Discord. See you next month!!! 💖💖💖💖💖