Development - 1st Rumination

it is early in the afternoon on November 19th... it has been exactly one year since this project began in earnest, when "the folder" was created... in the past year, this almighty folder has seen changes and re-organization and now contains more than two dozen music files, an uncountable number of pixel art files, and two big text docs... it continues to grow at an unprecedented, and concerning rate...

this morning, a few snowflakes danced down from the cloud layer and landed on the wet grass, and though they melted there, this still counts as the beginning of winter... winter is the most productive season when it comes to projects like this, being all cooped-up inside with a warm mug of tea and no reason to go out in the bitter cold compels one to do something with their time... expect rapid progress on this project over the next several months...

since the last update 77 days ago, 5 tracks have been completed, with a few being shared on the quite adept youtube channel slowly but surely... and don't call me Shirley... but also a ton of background art has been either finished or started, two more character portraits are in the works, and a few thousand more words of dialogue have been added to the script... the current estimate is that the game is about a quarter of the way completed in one year... that may sound like there are three more years to go, but don't be surprised if that ends up not being the case... the journey begins now...

Here's where we're at so far:

• Characters - 2 of 3 main characters pixeled, animated, and coded (Akari & Keiva) - 1.5 of ? side characters pixeled
• Artwork - 9 of ? background artwork created - logo completed - GUI artwork about 70% complete
• Music - 21 of 30+ tracks completed
• Dialogue - 12,019 words written out of expected 80,000 words across all story paths
• Overall - at this point, the game is approximately 26% complete

that's all for now... thanks for reading... - quite adept