DEMO Postmortem

On my timezone, it's already November 1st. But I finally finished the For A Reason demo!

I don't exactly follow the rules of working on this project every day, nor did I make an exact daily devlog. But this is my... workflow, if you can call it that?

• Pre-Devtober: since this is an old project, some bits of the script is already written (approximately 1k words)
  
• Day 1-3: edited the existing script
• Day 4-7: continued the script, made a sketch for Jane, Lora, Grace, and Camila
•  Day 8-9: edited the existing script, made a more detailed outline, made sketches for Kimi and Melina
• Day 10-11: added multiple endings concept
•  Day 12-17: nothing, it's midterms (I also procrastinate a lot)
• Day 18: started writing again
• Day 19: contemplated bailing (oops)
• Day 20: worked on character sprites, finished few basic poses
• Day 21-27: worked bit by bit on the character sprites, drawing different poses and figuring out colors. A lot of procrastinating during this period LOL
• Day 28-29: edited backgrounds, put the script to renpy
• Day 30-31: finding music and finishing the script as much as I can

There are so many things that I wish could've gone better, but I'm happy that I finished it!

Things that I wished I could've done had I had more time:

• Finish putting the sprites until the end of the first split route (I had to cut off so much of it thanks to my poor time management, the actual demo script has 4.2k words)
• Make an icon
• Create more dynamic poses
• Finish some special sprites (I don't have the ability to draw CG so I have to find an alternative LOL)

Despite all that, I think I did well finishing this! It's obviously unpolished and it might have some errors but I'll save the revisions for the next update. I'm aiming to finish this project during the time of Yuri Game Jam so I can submit to it as well.

Thanks to the Devtober 2022 organizer for providing me the push to create something. Thanks to my friends too: Azel, Rivie, and especially Chaiya, my fellow devtober warrior! And thanks to you for checking my visual novel!