It seems that I’ve broken the 120k mark in Eternal Memories, but that’s not really big news. The big news is that, I’m implementing point based events in one of the paths! (I might include points in some of the other ones too.)

No, I wasn’t using points before. I was just using True and False statements.

Statistics:

The game contains 12,832 screens of dialogue.
These screens contain a total of 121,316 words,
for an average of 9.5 words per screen.
The game contains 33 menus.

Anyway, an unrelated note, this is to all you spambots out there!

I read all of your posts, even if I don’t understand or respond to them, and even if I mark them as spam. :’) *

*not really

These past few days, I’ve been having trouble with writing.

I finally figured out the problem though: Although I know where I’m going, I’m out of ideas of what to write.

When it comes to writing, it’s important to have a plan. If you’re writing a “day,” you want to know what you’re writing. Knowing what things to write about makes the writing go quicker (or more accurately, it makes it “go”).

It seems that I’ve exhausted my plans though. I can’t really write dialogue between my characters at the moment, and I don’t know what’s happening. It seems that I’m currently experiencing “burnout.”

Because of this, I’m taking a break from writing. I’m planning on editing and playing some VNs. It’s actually been a while since I’ve let myself do that. I think the editing will give me some ideas, and I really do need to refresh my memory on what’s happened so far.

Editing for EM starts with the stats like this:

Statistics:

The game contains 11,995 screens of dialogue.
These screens contain a total of 112,998 words,
for an average of 9.4 words per screen.
The game contains 32 menus.

Well, I just recently hit the 60k mark on words for Eternal Memories. It’s also the summer, so I plan on pounding out writing. I’ve set a goal of 2,000 words every day, which isn’t easy… We’ll see how successful I end up being.

Anyway, 60k isn’t really much of a milestone (the real milestone will be 100k) but I’m going to use it to justify something else.

That’s right! I got myself one of these! I’m planning on wearing it to Comic-Con San Diego (Quite possibly the only place I can wear it without getting stoned…)

Sure, I bought it before I thought about celebrating 60k words, but that doesn’t matter!

Yes, I’m totally bragging right now.

Alright, let’s get some things out of the way first:

Katawa Shoujo’s release was certainly impressive. It did an excellent job marketing, and was fairly decent. Why does it anger me?

Well… There’ve been a lot of things popping up that exclaim that they’re “inspired by Katawa Shoujo!” They vary from decent sounding things (very rare, in fact, I can’t think of any off the top of my head) to almost direct carbon copies of KS (hey, I know, let’s stick in 18+ content, have filtered photo backgrounds, heroines with some sort of disability, set it in Japan, make it free, get a bunch of writers, get a bunch of artists, etc. Story? I have no idea! Let’s just do this thing!)

Alright, let’s make some things clear:

The KS model for creating VNs is not optimal. There were a lot of issues that came up, and the release of the game was delayed for quite a while. That’s not what angers be though.

What angers me? Well, that would be that it’s KATAWA SHOUJO that’s inspiring them. KS? There are much, MUCH better games than KS. That so many games should be “inspired by KS” instead of “inspired by Clannad” or “inspired by [insert other VN of merit]” makes me feel like crying…

Well, now that that flaming’s out of the way… Eternal Memories stuff, eh?

School’s finally ending for me, so I should have time over the summer to write. Art is going at varying paces. It’s an unofficial goal to get the website up by the end of summer break. We’ll see how that goes XD

I’ve been sick recently, so hopefully I’ll get better, because not is not the optimal time to write. I think that made itself apparent in the latest game I made:

http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=15557

It’s a slice of life story about a water droplet. I made if for one of my classes. It was… a painful process… Being sick near the end of writing, some of that may have carried over. That being said, I’m not touching the thing again. It was EVIL! Ah, and no, it’s not a HellPanda game, it’s just something I threw together for a class. Definitely not my proudest work…

Anyway, if you haven’t heard… my latest policy:

“All my games will have a redhead. Period.”

And so they shall!

Time to sulk away and curl in a corner to sleep, and hopefully get over this cold.

Speaking of curling, I should do some curl ups… getting pudgy…