Goals for 2026: - update "Nothing Like You" (soon!) - make at least 1 new sidegame - finalize all designs - draw sprites for at least 2 (if not more) characters - finish current draft of Terminal Status script - jump into new (hopefully the final) script revision

Work on the update for "Nothing Like You" has been slow going due to difficulties understanding screens (along with stumbling into several new gamedev projects along the way), but studying has been happening and hopefully results will come soon 💪

The good news: I'm working on coding! The bad news: my studying of styles and screens is Not going well. My brain explodes.

A little world building: Terminal Status's equivalent of a phone is simply a "tube," which is an electronic communication device with a tactile, holographic basis (AKA: motion activated commands, and uses holograms). Like most tech, tubes have specific phrases and slang attached to them.

I accidentally wrote Post-Op another character song, but thought I might have lucked out with it. Her initial one was partially rap, which quite doesn't suit her character well (it probably happened because she's the one I relate to most, so my own genre preferences shone through).

I keep worrying about how the Gnosia AU sidegame is going to end up more interesting than Terminal Status itself, but I think that's just something I need to accept. I'm putting a supernatural death game up against a romantic drama, gaps in intrigue comes with the territory.

good creative ideas are always infuriating because they inevitably mean more work

The good news is I've started scripting out the Gnosia AU game, and found ways to make the tutorial a thousand times more entertaining and effective. The bad news is it's going to require me to draw SO many CGs.

As Terminal Status takes place on a space academy, designing the ship has always been on the to-do list. Doing so does not come easy to me. Ailantd has been a huge inspiration to me, and I've long wished to try applying the skills I see her using. Now, I've finally found the necessary vision.

I've been thinking so long about how to insert an oximeter into my world design, and I just realized... maybe that's what the space academy can be designed after. Maybe the H1PP0-CRAFT is a giant oximeter-shaped ship.

share to save a visual novel's dev life

I have come up with maybe the funniest way to start an RPGMaker game

Today I worked so long on music that my fret-holding hand hurts 🙋

It shouldn't be a priority, but I really want to go back and remake Towers are Hospitals at some point. I revisited it recently, and disagree with a lot of the editing decisions I made (specifically how I shied away from being explicit with the content matter).

decided to do #the_color_wheel with Terminal Status's limited palette! get pastel'd 😎

I've been a songwriter longer than I've been a gamedev, & I've been a weeb even longer than that. So I've always been bewitched by the idea of the ever-elusive Character Song, á la old anime and Sonic Adventure 2 Battle. As such, I decided character songs would be a part of Terminal Status.

My cats heard me recording vocal demos for the game today and thought, "you know what this needs? The sounds of me violently jumping around and pushing over piles of objects."

I have been developing Terminal Status for upwards of four years now, AND finished two full (short side) games, and only now do I start working on proper promotional art. I know exactly why I have put this off, with is typography. Fonts & logos are not my friends. Graphic design is not my passion.

Thank you for your interest in Terminal Status! Terminal Status is a future #VisualNovel about #queer 20-somethings in space. It's a #scifi #pastel #menhera romance, and my passion project. Itch: pride-col.itch.io Website: terminalstatus.neocities.org Mastodon: gamedev.lgbt/@TerminalSta...