I know I have more chances to actually finish a project if I tell people about, so I am officially announcing my very first game:

I decided to create this game for the Yuri Game Jam 2023. I am an artist who loves drawing female characters, so I thought a yuri game would be a good start in creating visual novels. Not to mention that one of my original characters was the perfect fit for the genre, so I immediately made her the protagonist.
It's also true, though, that this would be my first time getting into the yuri genre and I hope to be able to write a good story that will do this genre justice.

The game will be created using TyranoBuilder, since I'm no programmer, but I will write the story, design characters and UI and create sprites. For backgrounds and music, I will probably rely on free assets (I'm really bad at backgrounds but I may still try to create them if I have enough time).

Hannah, Chikara and Yvonne are my original characters, so they already have a set design and personality. (The drawings you see in the banner above, in fact, are from their reference sheets and won't be used in the game. I'm just using them as placeholders.) Nonetheless, I still want to create new outfits for this game. Any other character will need to be designed from scratch.

• HANNAH: main character; American. She's obessed with science and chemistry. Her greatest desire is becoming a renowed scientist.
• CHIKARA: one of Hannah's best friends; Japanese. Always calm and collected. Her cold stare scares people, but in reality she has an extremely warm heart.
• YVONNE: one of Hannah's best friends; French. Dreams of becoming a teacher loved and respected by all students. Loves to gossip.
• LOVE INTERESTS: can't reveal anything for now, but my hope is to have three of them. The silhouettes in the banner above are temporary and may different from the final designs.
• PROFESSOR PASCAL: University teacher. Hannah is his lab assistant and loves to make him angry.
• MR. HYDE: Hannah's cat, adopted from the shelter~
• More characters to come, maybe???

I'm currently writing the prologue and, although I have a general idea of where I want the story to go, I still need to figure out the middle part.

The premise of the game will slowly be revealed as the story progresses because Hannah herself beats around the bush and doesn't explicitly talk about it, since she refuses to acknowledge it. She likes women and she has never accepted it. Due to past events, she has buried everything deep into her heart and has lived her life like this, thinking the problem was solved.

Of course that's not how it works and her wounds, which have never had the chance to heal, have heavily influenced her life. In this game, she will learn to open her heart and accept herself thanks to a new love. What kind of "love" it will be, the player will decide.

I'm not sure if I will be able to finish the entire game within the jam's timeframe, so I'm aiming for a working demo, at least.

My main goals for now are, more or less in order of importance:

1. Finish writing the prologue (I am currently at around 7k words, but who knows what more I will add or delete);
2. Input all the text in the engine;
3. Design all characters;
4. Draw all sprites and at least a decent amount of expressions;
5. Add all character animations and expression changes;
6. Work on at least one route, with a good and a bad ending.

Additional things that are still important, but don't have priority at the moment:

• Find all the backgrounds I need;
• Find some music.

This is all, for now. Writing will probably take a lot of time, so I will probably write an update next week with the new word count. Unless I decide to take a break inbetween writing sessions and sketch some things.

See you soon!