Monthly Summary: February 2025
This month I was working on several commissions again, so I've been juggling between them. Pippa mini CGs/calendar artwork is shoved to the side ;;; I hope to pick it up soon. March won't be as busy as February, so I hope I'm able to squeeze them.
February, at a glance:
Haha there are some days off. I feel bad about it. ;-;
Art stuff
- Made a small extra The Ice Cream Culprit content where Eileen and Lucy made a cameo haha. I was so thankful that Renpytom gave it a try! (This content won't be available in-game)
- Received new language translation for Where Is Mrs Peregrine! I'm too busy to check for spillovers, but I was able to fix the font issue with the new language! ✨
- Did Inspector Eileen mascot for Ren'py GuiInspect tool! She turns out really cute.
- It's the 3rd anniversary (sort of?) for my one-shot comic To:You. So I did the yearly art for it!
I'm currently writing more stories for them in VN format, and it turns out REALLY LONG so please look forward to it!! All Blooming Chimes tagged posts are about this hehe.
Dev stuff
- I'm not thinking of joining any VN jams in near future because I'm putting the rest of my energy after commissions to developing Blooming Chimes. I would really love to join next year's edition of Storyteller Festival on Steam with it. 🥺🙏 Working hard that a demo will be available at the end of this year!
- Arc 1 outlining is almost done!! I cut off some scenes from the OG version, and added some more contents since I made changes to how the game works. It's really fun I'm loving every second I spend working in this!!
A peek of a scene I love so much:
My outline is so wordy isn't it... Ahaha. 💦 I wanted to make it snappy but I needed to jot down all of these rapidly growing details in my brain. At the moment, it's at 33k words lol...
- I also work on the extended demo for Re:Curse. I draw for this project so it's all art! I will share art preview when the extended demo is launching.
Haru's Day!
Today is the date I set as Haru's birthday. I like assigning birthdays for my characters because it helps me a lot in breaking art block. Also, it's fun! I don't think about personality + birthday matching (I'm not fond of those things lol) but I like writing scenes revolving their birthdays.
Let me tell you a fun thing: last night I had a dream of various things (I dream of really random and bizarre things every day, I keep a private journal of it lol) but there was this scene: I saw Haru; he looked like one of my latest sketch (something like this), standing in front of me. I approached him, and this sketched form of his looked at me. 'He's so good looking????' – I thought to myself lol. And I tried to make him be the average looking guy. He was working on his stuff on his desk. I sat beside him, watching him working. He's very focused, occasionally stopped to think of something, I didn't know what. There wasn't really any conversation nor big things happening. It was just a calm moment. I woke up feeling sad lol... But then, my mind went: oh! It is his birthday today. I should have told him 'happy birthday' when I was by his side hahaha. I lost the chance. 🥲
Sarangh– 🫶 I MEAN, happy birthday!! ❤️
To celebrate his birthday, today's banner is Haru!! 🎉
This month's stats... is retiring. ^^
It's no longer fun to share this for me haha... I want to share these things in a more casual, feed-style timeline instead! I'll figure things out so it's more fun.
See you!
- Konayachi