4/12/2025, 9AM

Hello, again, and happy December! Unfortunately, I've come to dread the holiday season in recent years, because I work in a mall and don't really do anything otherwise, so it mostly just makes my job harder. Oh well.

Scarred By Heaven Development

With Chapter 3 done, I've been working on getting a satisfactory amount of side content together for the Early Access release. The biggest thing I want to make, and probably one of the largest minigames in general, is the 'dungeoneering' game, which is a dramatized representation of Saki being forced into playing 'Knights' with a young child who has a very strong imagination.

...Honestly, I think I got a little carried away with it. It's not quite finished yet, but I'm trying to give it a rogue-like-ish format of randomization and 'runs', where you rush through a collection of pre-created but randomly shuffled rooms on a time limit, trying to gather as much loot as you can. I wanted to keep the mechanics and enemies very simple, so the challenge can come more from trying to play perfectly and optimize every room.

I've been pretty set on the concept of a sidestory in which the stoic Sakiko is overwhelmed by babysitting since I started making the game, so this has been a fun way to realize that.  Making maps with the simple tilesets is kind of taking me back to my RPG Maker days, though...

Personal Notes

I went to the aquarium the other week. I've never actually been to one in person but always wanted to... and I guess playing a horror game about one finally put me in the mood to go through with it.

I saw a lot of animals I never knew about, took a lot of notes for SBH, and took a lot of photos that all came out pretty bad. It was a great time!

The weedy seadragon was my favorite. - HSTopaz