this is prolly gonna be the last slowguts update before it comes out (vibrating) (excited) (dying)

yesterday late at night i finally finished the script and sent it out for oomfies to betaread… ive been getting really pleasant responses that have made me super duper happy!! its hard for me to have very high expectations for myself, especially writing, because im not very confident in my skills as a writer… i have very little experience after all!!! but my peers seem to be getting something out of this story and oh my god i was not ready for how good that feels….

two things are relevant in this screenshot… first of all, just earlier today i finished work on the menus!!! (for now)

the quickmenu was actually pretty fun to work on… i wanted to do a more in depth take on the ingame pause menu as well but trying to mess with the screen code for it made my eyes sorta bleed so i went with the easy, obvious approach. oh and i redid irida!! look she doesn’t look so bad now, right??

i finally tried a multi costume system like i wanted to for a while… its kinda funny to have done it for SUCH a short vn where the character in question barely appears but nonetheless waow waow yepppp ^_^

the bow irida wears in that outfit is based on a bow my wife giulia wears to work sometimes. she’s been helping me with a lot of small decisions and tiny details… like the name of a certain incidental character whose name sadly didn’t even make it into the vn in the end!! so sad

slowguts was my first for a lot of things… including my first time changing the title screen!! i mean yea if my backlog consists of a thousand WIPs that couldnt even get their scripts finished.. it makes sense that i wouldve never TOUCHED a title screen before, right? its also the first time ive touched ATL, for a certain transition that shows up later.. it actually sticks out a ton so anyone who’s read this blog will know what im talking about when they play it. i assume ame.fish readers are in the minority tho. hello if ur reading this !!

a really heavy feeling of warmth is setting in the closer i get to finishing this little work. its very short, and for many reasons maybe for the people reading it wont seem very special, but the idea came to me from a pretty personal place.. that’s not really why its important to me though!! (generally most of my ideas so far have ccome from personal places so wtv lol)

having been a fan of visual novels, wanting to tackle them myself for so long, even having a ton of attempts some that have lasted years now.. knowing that this, my debut work, is approaching so so so soon, and at this point its so close to done that i could LITERALLY SHIP IT RIGHT NOW ,,, it feels really special to me and ive been bathing in that glow since yesterday.

i will really never forget how this felt, and the experience will never ever stop being important to me…. im so happy

but anyway more to come when i.. finish the novel for real!! (still a few CGs left to go… lets get back to work noww~~)