#shade studios developer logs

[thegreatlazule]

Devlog -- Entry 2

21st of June, 2026.

Days since beginning of development: 1 month, 1 week and 2 days.

Ok so today i didn't do a whole lot, i did however start learning gamemaker 2 basics instead of just looking up tutorials for everything i needed to do (hindsight's always 20/20, dont judge me), and i also came up with some worldbuilding bits; namely, that the way the elements in Periodically Fighting are born is that theyre made up of smaller atoms of their respective elements, these atoms all have consciousness, albeit very small, and when they conjoin beit by chance or by gravity (im not sure if that's how it works, but this is a fictional world only loosely based on real science) these consciousness all amount to something bigger, something sapient and alive. Anyway yeah if anyone has any gamemaker 2 resources thatd be extremely handy, not to mention if anyone would like to help out at all with anything thatd be great too

[thegreatlazule]

Devlog -- Entry 6

16th of July, 2026.

Days since beginning of development: 2 months and 6 days.

ok so im actually: A Lying Bitch, i'm making a battle system THEN items. It's still extremely rough and doesn't work yet, but I have stats and a way to dynamically adjust how many party members there are and how many enemies you're going against. That's about it for now, I took a small break to play celeste and rainworld lol

[thegreatlazule]

Devlog -- Entry 5

10th of July, 2026.

Days since beginning of development: 2 months.

Minor update today, but still notable; I have a mostly working menu!! It resizes itself automatically and can be put basically wherever. Im working on making the settings work, since I broke it, fixed it, broke it again and fixed it again. I'm also finishing up a title screen prototype. After this I'll make an in-game menu for items and settings you can toggle during the game.

[thegreatlazule]

Devlog -- Entry 4

6th of July, 2026

Days since beginning of development: 1 month, 3 weeks, 3 days

Okay, winter holiday's are finally happening and im locking the fuck in. That said, I've made a working menu system, so far it'll be used for the title/post-title screen, as well as in-game. It has code to get automatically resized for the text it has, both in height and in width. To get the width I had to put the longest text option in the third position, which I don't entirely mind. So far it can start up and quit the game, as well as send you to a (currently!) useless settings menu, and an equally will-be-used-but-not-in-use extras screen. Tomorrow I'll properly set up the brightness and audio settings and look into how to make swapping controls easy.

[thegreatlazule]

Devlog -- Entry 3

29th of June, 2026.

Days since beginning of development: 1 month, 2 weeks and 3 days.

Today I finished up Deltarune, so development resumes as usual and I march down my path (wink wink). I learnt some more fundamentals of gamemaker 2, namely object types and the such, and wrote down some lore. Most notably I made a map!!

Here it is, a very rudimentary and very much not final map of Menderra (Mend-ee-ra), the in-universe name for Earth. It's a portmanteu of Mendeleev and Terra, so I think it's decently clever. I don't have the details down, but I've at least written one of these islands, that being, the bottom one, which is based on the lanthanum and actinide series. It's this huge mushroom forest full of wild beasts (who are maybe not so wild, maybe just defending their home...), and in the center there's a walled off city powered by radiation. I'm not sure how to include it in the plot just yet, but it can't be terribly hard.

[thegreatlazule]

Interlude 1

Heyall!! It's me!! Deltarune ch 5 has me in a fucking chokehold!!! development will resume in 2-4 business days!!!!! that is all!!!!!!

[thegreatlazule]

Devlog -- Entry 1

20th of June, 2026.

Days since beginning of development: 1 month, 1 week and 1 day.

IMMM BACK ON MY FUCKING BULLSHIT, LADIES GENTLEMEN EVERYTHING IN AND OUT BETWEEN!!!!!!!!!!!!! the new project is called Periodically Fighting (Name still up for discussion), it's a fighting RPG based on the periodic table, so far I've assembled a little team as well as made a handful of sprites and coded up some very basic movement (yes, there's a run button, i'm no monster) and ive also come up with a semi solid battling system which im still implementing!! im very very excited for this project and im hoping to publish a demo by the end of the year ^v^