Today, 27 Oct 2024 at 8:33 AM, I will start working on The big game lore, because I already have the plot twist.
27 Oct 10:17 PM: I have made some progress, and some great progress if I do say so myself :D I have made 3 characters, as well as explaining the environment and some relationships between the characters. I have made Cristi, Mrs. Ava and Carlson, but I will probably change his name, because, man! Carlson? Out of all names, Karlson? And yeah, that is about it for today. Tho you can imagine that I didn't work on this script all this time. I probably only worked like 30 min, and did some other real life stuff, like scrolling on yt shorts. Yeah, not my best productive day, but it is my first, and I am hoping that things will get better the more I start working on the game :) I also explained what I want Marvin’s reality to be (a religious city, and a country as a hole) tho I left most of the lore uncovered. I only made like the first 10-20 min of gameplay, which is to get you used to the characters and everything about them. I an resigning off for today, and until tomorrow, God bless you readers ❤️✝️
28 Oct 8:15 AM: I woke up at around 6:45 and I decided to watch some videos about how to write a visual novel. And I learned quite a lot. I also learned about a little python tool, called, if I remember correctly, ren’py. And if it is comparable with pygame, than oh my days, I’mma make the best game that I have ever created. But I have a slight feeling that it isn't compatible with pygame, no idea why tho. Anyways, here is the plan for today: start making some key events, and a The Timeline for said events, find a way to connect them, and maybe create more characters if needed, but I don't want TOO many characters since that will make the story kinda hard to follow. If possible, I also want to detail the few (3) characters that I have created (Cristi, Mrs. Ava and Karlson), give them motivations, flaws, likes, dislikes etc. I also want to create a past for everything that can be seen in the story, the environment, why Marvin is in Timisoara even tho he normally lives in America, why the city (and country) is so religious, why Marvin ain't religious etc. And I also want to at least find a way that I will be able to explain the plot in a way that is easy to digest. I want the plot to have something to do with Cristi, and I do have some ideas, but I’m not gonna cover the here. I have finished writing this at 8:36 AM, but I will 100% be coming back to writing soon :D
28 Oct 10:43 AM: I got my friend to start working with me and I helped him learn how notion works, and right now he is changing the script while I’m working on the game page, and creating a page for all the characters so that we have a page for each and every one of them and can therefore make details and relationships between the caracters even better. Also we are figuring out the name of the game and right now we have landed on “The Death of Marvins Reality”, which to be honest, it does sound pretty good, but I feel like there is a different kind of name that can be slightly better, but I’m yet to figure it out. I have also made a banner and emoji for every page so that the overall the working experience is 5% better, which is a big improvement over time :D Also Fabi started working on the caracter for Cristi, tho we don’t have a lot of details about him. 1:08 PM: Mario out.
29 Oct 9:29 AM: So today I am going to a city that is like 1:15h away, so I have an hour to work on the lore :D So yesterday, as I was watching a movie with my father, I got a really cool idea. I’m not really gonna say what it is, because no spoilers, but here is what I will say: a huge backstory for Cristi :)) I have some ideas but I still have to get the general details down. But I want him to have a really big secret and the personality that we see at the start be his like mask, and later we can see his real personality, which may or may not be a really important part in the game, and actually, as of writing this, I have thought of something even better. When the big action that I’m not going to say has happened, Marvin will have the choice between either killing him or letting him stay alive (tho probably not for long) :(. Or we can make him essential to the plot now that I do think about it, and it would be a pretty neat scene. So I’mma finish writing this blob now at 10:05 and start working on the lore, see ya later :D
02 Jan 3:35 PM (2025 hole mole): So… It’s been quite the year huh? Not for the game tho :( But… I have quite a lot of art that I have made (edit from 07 Jan 1:57AM: in my physical notebook) for that game (that I made last year), and there are some pretty darn cool ideas! But I won’t get very into details. And also today is the first day that I started working on the story again, but I have some kind of really sad news for this games development :( I am thinking of dropping the game idea for some time, because while the main plot twist is a really great idea, I need to find (make) some details to make this story more interesting and entertaining, because the main plot twist will not be enough. So either I make some sub plots to make this story interesting (and also a better story, because the beginning is boring af) and some great characters, I feel like there needs to be some love (and feeling is general) involved, but not necessarily a romantic relationship, just any sort of feeling that the characters have for each other, and by that I mean mixed emotions. And we also NEED a backstory for Marvin, and all other important characters.
03 Jan (still 2025) at exactly (not really) 8:06PM: Yooooo, this is the second day of writing in a row, yeppy :)) SO, today I didn’t really make a lot of progress on the game itself, but I have a great feeling that I will, soon. Why is that, some of you may (but probably not) ask? Because… I HAVE FOUND THE EXACT SOFTWARE I WAS LOOKING FOR OMG YEPPY; Ok, let me chill a little and explain to y’all what I actually mean by that… So! There was a time in the development of this game where I belived that I was the best programmer ever (or something close to that), because I tried to make the game with no engine, which is not actually that hard, but what was bad for me is that the only time/s that I have made something like that is when I made that stuff in scratch, yeah, you read that right, scratch, the kids programming app. Now in my defense, I have made some really damn complex stuff in there that is definetly way above the avarage level of a scratch made by a kid that is the same age as I was at the time (12). But with all that being said, I was NOT ready for what I was about to attempt, which was, learning a new language, that being japonese! Nonono, wait, wrong time, wrong place, tho that did actually happen (not me learning, but me trying to learn). Ok, but in all seriousness, learning a new programing language, that being python, more exactly, pygame, was really difficult, and I am saying that, because after all that time of trying (more that a month), I didn’t learn almost anything :(. I did use chatGPT to try to “cheat my way into the system”, but that only ended up making me even more confused than by just watching a damn video. But after all that yapping, you probably want to know what crazy good solution I found, and I won’t tell you another 157 words or so about how I ended finding the solution, insted I will tell you that I just looked at the credits of a game called “The Coffin of Andy and Leyley”. And there I found it, the solution to all my problems in life (not really, I’m still not done with the game, and I still haven’t found an infinite money glitch, but other than that and like 900 other problems, it truly is the solution to all my problems). And finally, I will tell you the name, BUT BEFORE WE GET TO THAT, LET ME THANK THE SPONSOR OF TODAYS, uhh, DAY: NOR- nah jk; the game engine is called RPG Maker MV. And now I am going to follow some tutorials to see how it works, and if I find them helpfull, I’ll atach a link tomorrow… Wait wait wait wait wait, after watching that my first tutorial for 2:36 and seeing how that platform works, I can’t help but wonder, how the fuck did Nemlei make TCoAaL in that game engine, because, by the looks of it, she didn’t use any of the textures that the game provided, and since the only thing that I have seen in this tutorial thus far is to just use the game textures, it really makes me think about how to import textures in the game engine, and more importantly, how can I make the textures themselves?
04 Jan 4:48 PM: So today my mom took everything, so no progress, and also, I’m trying to write this as fast as possible because my mom WILL take my phone. So here is all I have to say: I won’t use the RPG Maker MV because of one simple reason: money. The damn thing costs 78,99 dollars. And I don’t have that kind of money. I did also try to install it in some other totally legal ways, but it didn’t work. Yet I did not give up on trying to find a game engine. I also installed godot, but I have LITERALLY NO IDEA of how to use it, and my next option (in my mind) is unity, especially because my brother is a student and I can get his free account :) So that is it for today, see y’all tomorrow!
06 Jan 4:37 AM: First of all, this is not what it looks like (actually, I swear), because if you look closely at the time you will see that it says AM, and not PM, that being because it IS actually 4 in the foking morning, and I’m tired as hell. Also, you thought that I had good news or something? Well nope! The only thing that I did today was trying to open the game after like 3 months of not touching it, and it turns out that when I left, I also left some bugs, that were kind of hard for me to solve, because I completely forgot how pygame works. But after asking ChatGPT why it didn’t work, looking at the code (and actually understand why it didn’t work then and why it works now), and putting it into the game, I fixed one of the bugs, yeppy! And yes, I did say one of the bugs, because there are more, and yes, “are” at the present tense, because I got bored and just gave up on fixing the code. And if you are somehow wandering why I’m staying up for so long, here is my list of reasons:
So anyway, it just turned to 5 AM, can’t belive that I used to wake up at this hour, ohh man. But yeah, this is it for today, see you today, in like 11 hours! Byeeeee!!!
07 Jan 1:14 AM: Remember what I said yester day, that I would reply the same day, yeah, well, apparently I started a habit of staying up late, which is bad because tomorrow I have school :( I mean it ain’t that bad, it’s just that I don’t like school ig. Ok so enough about that, let me get to the actual “progress report” of yesterday, because in this 1 hour of me existing today, I didn’t do anything that contributed to the making of this game at all, or didn’t I?? So the ONLY somewhat usefull things that I have done today are the fact that I found out that it costs 100$ to put a game on steam (a damn lot) and an idea for naming the capters of the game (that I will not say because it will be kind of important, but you will understant what it is once you see it). But here is what I did yesterday: