NaNoRenO2020 - Week 6 Devlog

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Getting very close now...

Writing and Editing

Stuff I did this week:

I've made a playable build of the visual novel to give to the playtesters. I'm in the process of adding the fixes and tweaks that they have sent to me.

Edited the dialogue (adding or switching words here and there), because after voice acting you tweak the dialogue for the voice actor's reads on their lines (sometimes a sentence sounds different written down, versus said out loud).

Also updated the VN's Easter Egg.

Voice Acting

The final voice acting has been recorded. I'm really happy with it, and I'm excited for you to hear it!

Art Assets

Made a diagram about the process of creating the art assets for Dear Devere.

Made a few tweaks for the art assets. There was one envelope I felt didn't look good enough (the watercolours looked too simple), so I re-did it, and I'm so glad I did!

Replaced the dialogue textbox with a darker one, as well as changed .

Created icons for builds. I used hnet and cloudconverter for converting the png file into ico and icns files, respectively.

Programming

This week, I finished programming Dear Devere's credits, splashscreen, text styles (the font used for the titlecards throughout the VN), and the settings screen (it broke after I added something to it, but I figured it out in the end).

Finished programming the script (scripting in the music, voice acting, audio, images, dialogue, etc).

Tweaked the textbox and quickmenu GUI images.

Made the main menu's text bigger after getting feedback.

Finished all the alt descriptive text for the visually-impaired.

Music

Paul Robins posted another clip of Dear Devere's OST. I'm thrilled at how the whole soundtrack turned out!

Marketing

Made an announcement post for the voice actors of Dear Devere!

Updated Dear Devere's Itchio page with new screenshots from the VN.

Posted two Dear Devere-related memes this week: Meme 1 | Meme 2

Posted a #ScreenshotSaturday Tweet.

Made a list of people who may be interested in covering Dear Devere. Whether it's as a critique, blog post, playthrough, or livestream.

I should have Dear Devere released by NaNoRenO's deadline (the 14th of April).

Hope you're looking forward to it!