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Monthly Summary: October 2024

Konayachi

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Monthly Summary: October 2024

Hello! This is a monthly summary post for October 2024! :D

Starting from this month, I will return to the monthly summary format just like how I used to do in Patreon/Sponsus! ^^; I'll retire the weekly summary posts and switch it to monthly.

This change was done for some reasons:

  • The weekly summaries started to feel a bit repetitive and shallow, especially in the activities section (what I watch/ read/ play/ listen to/ etc.) and I don't like repeating those so many times. Apologies... ;-;
  • I start to let go the 'daily posts' perfection since I lost the streak so many times this year for personal reasons (trip, health, stuff to solve away from my desk, etc.). Weekly summaries highlight these holes too much, it's a bit annoying haha. I still create things almost daily, so I think it's more forgiving if I look back once a month instead of every week.
  • I want to make monthly calendar thumbnails for everything I post in that month. Whee!

TL;DR, I want to move on from weekly to monthly because the contents got too repetitive.

October 2024, at a glance:

This is the first time I do this small thumbnails. It feels good to look at everything at once.

After the intense Spooktober on September, I just wanted to stay away from my desk for a few days, so the first few days of October was empty. I was chilling, re-reading some novels from my teenager days (makes me want to write again haha... Looking at my juicy WIPs), playing some backlog VNs, some Spooktober entries, Stardew Valley, and more...

Art stuff

I did a lot of doodles to test some watercolour-style art for an upcoming project I recently joined! It's for the NoveJam 2024 I'll participate with Else and Mijil for a brand-new VN project which will start in, uh, November haha! ✨ It's exciting!

I'll go with this watercolour-style, more or less!

Dev stuff

I looked back at Pippa and Your Phantasmal Problem and I notice some super-minor issues (after some nice rest, I can see clearly how to make this VN so much better!) so I noted down some bug-fixes and things to improve, especially in GUI, and probably a few text improvements I can do. I also had a family member pointed out some stuff to fix, Lopson made a super detailed spreadsheet of things that need attention, and some players left comments on the game to let me know about other things to improve... Wah... You are all so, so kind... ;;w;;

So, I'll slowly get back to my projects and implement these things! 😃 Probably not in a month or two, but I'll definitely do it once things are calming down.

She's the cutest!!!!

Even after a month later, I'm still recovering from the super intense Spooktober month hahaha... x_x;; Hoping to bounce back to making more things soon. Some devs said they've already jumped onto the next jam, how powerful... Very admirable hahaha... But I'm taking my time, very slow...

Thank you so much for everyone who took their time to write all of the feedback to me. I'm really touched... ;-; I'm super humbled. 🙇‍♀️

Others

I recently had some health check-up and although the result is mostly okay, there will be days where I'll be away for some medical interventions for the foreseeable future. I can't help this, so I ask for your understanding if I disappear for a while every now and then. It will be uncommon, but those days will happen. 🙇‍♀️ Apologies in advance.

Currently:

I took so many days composing this post because I don't know what else I can jot down. For a month's summary, it feels like it's the same length as my weekly posts hahaha. This October has been slow for me...

See you!
- Konayachi