Working on a visual novel, I'm constantly torn between whether or not to show off or ask for help just yet, or keep entirely silent until it starts actually looking nice. I'm self teaching here, so it's chugging along quite slowly.
Working on sketched sprites right now, so I can write out scenes and pretty easily have a visual of the final product, but there are a few small things I'm doing that are QUITE complicated for a beginner like me.
Biggest thing, since the love interests are ROBOTS, their expressiveness is suuper limited. First workaround was giving them wildly varied poses since their faces can't do much. Harder, but necessary. But now I'm thinking "Hey, these bits here on their face are mobile, why not make them changeable too? A separate body and facial expression should really help, even if it's subtle" But that's... hard. Because that's multiple faces PER POSE.
Only necessary for one of them, but I can technically do it for two or three, so I'm asking myself how much of that work I'm actually planning to do.
Is this what you call a DevLog?