cola's demo postmortem: battle of the lilies arc

hey! so this is the demo version of our thing for toxic yuri vn jam, it's planned out and i hope we can get the whole thing done by the end of august.

NOTE: this is my postmortem! glacier is writing separately

i think it came out ok anyway but glacier and i fought a lot about scope and tone!!! in my original idea for this jam, all of the characters died horribly in space. glacier was like, i hate when my ocs die, if you insist on making it a space horror minagoroshi then ill draw stuff for it but i cant help you write or plot.  and i wanted to work together with her, so i sealed that one in a cave and came back with "three days in a van with hatsune miku" but glacier was like "i literally have no idea how to write hatsune miku" so we didnt do that. i suffered indescribable agonies from not being allowed to kill anyone. and then i was crushed by a bed of nails from not getting to have hatsune miku. a hero dies but once, but a cola dies like a dozen fucking times. its a tragedy. please clap.

anyway it's supposed to be close to a picaresque. some jerks who love each other cause trouble. their relationship is toxic but its like cyanide in marzipan. if that makes sense.

development hardware and software: i stole glacier's ipad and apple pencil and bought an apple pencil and procreate for it and a little rotating stand, and it worked great and i unexpectedly had a ton of fun drawing the cgs!! i havent really drawn digital art well before -- like, i have tried to do it on a wacom but it was a huge struggle and it didnt look very good. but this time was good. my main difficulty was fighting off the Elektroniklust to upgrade and get a pencil with buttons. i had a ton of fun learning chords and making babys first ambient music in fl studio and putting together sound effects in audacity! its not unbelievable stuff but idk its my first music.

the writing was very difficult, like it usually is for me. i tried to do the vn/j-novel thing that i like where there narrator has a lot of inner monologue and interesting thoughts not just about the main dramatic stuff but about everything. i didnt really succeed but i tried, and, thats what you write in a devlog, what you tried,

when we decided on the demo version, i abandoned the second and third days, and focused on making the first day more interesting. i dont know if that was an incredible idea but idk i like it. the little characters move around with each other and its fun :) i thought my plan of putting nvl down the right side and having graphics moving on the left was going to blow everyone's mind, maybe not but at least it looks good anyway.

heres some sketches from my stuff!

sketch #1: lospec just looks exactly like that

sketch #2: serious business robot from the second day. he works for a rich guy who dies

sketch #3: in "three days in a van with hatsune miku," this is the other character, super doormat vocaloid nina (number 27). shes a good singer and not bad at guitar, but usually they make her play the drums. a nina's expected lifespan is 2-3 years