#7swak dev

[catsi]

i need to stop sketching CGs for scenes i haven’t even written yet lmfao

[catsi]

gonna be real hard to talk myself down from this placeholder background

[catsi]

i got a lot of work done the past couple weeks w. figuring out cohesive themes for Thana and Cassia and Sloan’s routes but Yersini’s route is just a fucking mystery to me. like the sort of underlying theme of 7SWaK is to look at the types of relationships we can have with ourselves and look at how those relationships impact our relationships with other people. so each woman’s relationship with her self is related to which horsewoman she is. so like Cassia’s route looks at the idea of the emotional Famine of the Self - she’s so terrified of experiencing negative emotions that she attempts to deprive herself of all emotion as a defense mechanism, and through playing her route you get a look at how that impacts a person’s ability to form platonic and romantic relationships.

or like, for Thana’s route, she’s struggling with her sense of self for reasons related to emotional security and mental illness, so she’s had a complete Death of the Sense of Self. Thana feels like she doesn’t know who she is, so the idea of being someone’s romantic partner feels absurd, because she doesn’t think she’s anyone worth wanting, because who even is she?

and there’s likewise a theme for Sloan re: being at War with the Self and constantly fighting over what she wants vs what she think she deserves

but i cannot. for the fucking life of me. think of how a Plague of the Self or a Contagion of the Self would manifest wrt Yersini’s route. i’ve spent so many days like daydreaming just trying to figure this out and it’s all a fucking mess fhsdkfhskjds but yeah aside from that roadblock, writing and stuff is coming along ok

[catsi]

one of the big scenes in the common route involves you crashing a semi-formal party the 4 horsewlw are at and i’m trying to design everyone’s outfit and i accidentally turned on the layer with War’s shades (from her default outfit) and i actually kind of love this look. she looks like such a fucking tool!!! wearing shades indoors!!!! what a vibe

[catsi]

listen. i know this looks like shit right now but i can’t stress enough that like 1 week ago i didn’t know how to do scrolling title screens/image buttons/hiding side images during CGs/unique CTC icons/etc. so like. things r still rough but we r LEARNING!

(all of this is obviously sketches none of these images are even remotely close to final)

song in the part w Sloan and Oona is copyright-free music by Jahzzar called Siesta! it’s just a placeholder track for now but is genuinely a cool and chill tune

[catsi]

its a learning process

[catsi]

i finally figured out how to resize sprites in ren’py so i can have nice high-res sprites that’ll still look good in close-ups, i’ve figured out how to program it so there’ll be little easter eggs if u give the main character a certain name at the start, how to change the click-to-continue icon based on which route you’re on, how to hide the main character’s side image sprite during CGs, how to make imagebuttons, and how to put a scrolling image on the main title screen... it might not seem like much but this foundation at least will make it so that when i finally have final assets for my game i can fling them right in. i wanna lay all this groundwork first bc writing the scripts is gonna take uh. a while. lol

[catsi]

THIS IS NOT FINAL BY ANY MEANS!!!!!! NOT FINAL AT ALL... but i did a little mockup of a logo kinda thing for my game... planning to use the scroll part without the text for like the window icon and stuff

really liking a pink + yellow + white colour scheme...