My First Devlog!

Hello everyone! I'll be telling you all about a game I'm currently developing.

Story 

To My Memories; To You is a lighthearted visual novel, which tells the story of Veline: a socially invisible 8th grader who suddenly becomes a big part of the school’s drama/social conflict after the transfer girl who instantly became popular becomes strangely interested in her.

Veline also gets dragged into becoming a magical girl by some girls in the same grade after throwing up a necklace in the school bathroom; seen by one of the girls.

Despite this, Veline doesn't appear to have any powers until another mysterious magical girl gave her a magic revolver gun.

Having to deal with messy school drama and magical monster fighting is no easy task, but Veline has an odd feeling that her two lives are connected somehow. By what, though?

Early Development (Summary)

The story used to be way different before this official one.

It all started when I just turned 13 years old in the 7th grade, late 2024. I just wrote down anything that was on my mind—anything—before I decided to clean the story up to what it is now in 2025.

I started making small test builds of this game in early 2025 on Ren'py, just to get the hang of it. One build succeeded, until I changed the file path and now I don't know how to fix that. I'm still new to this, sorry.

Not only do I write, code, and compose music sometimes (simple pieces), I also illustrate the visual novel almost all by myself.

I used to use Ibispaint X for all of my illustrations: sprites, GUI, and background editing until that crashed too. The files all got corrupted. I decided to change to Krita for drawing sprites, then Ibispaint X suddenly worked again, so I use that for quicker editing. Basically: Krita for detailed sprites, Ibispaint X for simple stuff I could do on my phone.

I use Pixabay and sometimes iStock to get free assets.

Now

Nowadays, I still need to learn from my mistakes. I'm still trying to rewrite and arrange the story properly. I also drew some new sprites. I haven't got to coding again; I don't have a proper story, there's no assets yet, and I'm trying to figure out how to place the files more efficiently.

I also have to do my schoolwork, and exams happen quite often. I still get good grades most of the time.

I'll focus on making a demo with day 1–7 so that I won't die while making this, and just to see if anyone is interested. I plan to make it downloadable on itch.io for free. It's an amateur project, I'm not gonna make people pay for it unless they want to.

I hope this project won't take too long to develop. For those who are interested and willing to wait for its release, thank you!