as i write this in the last minutes of 20/9/2026.

i have a bit over a week left to finish the project for the spooktober game jam. if you're reading this, i apologize in advance, as i will not be grammar-checking this devlog. sorry.

i feel burned out. i'm tired of drawing and making things, i just really want to be done. this is the third-ish visual novel i've ever made, but it's the first one i will publish. many times before i just wanted everything to be perfect, and i would hold myself back when the result product was not up to what i originally imagined. 

i look fondly at my past works, i wish i would have published them when i made them. thankfully after starting studying videogame design i understood and learned many things. now, i only look forward to the future, to all the messy game jam thingies i want to make and publish. i want to love the unpolished, raw. 

so i will push through the burn out and finish and publish STOMACH VOID. i hope that, if future me has time, that she returns to this project and make a better version of it. with all the time in the world.

this week has been mostly about drawing and re-drawing CG's and assets, while also dealing with some other real-life things.

next week i will focus on finishing the 3 CGs i got left and throwing some sound effects here and there. if i have time, i want to give the game a spanish option but... who knows.

ultimately i know i have the time, it's more about if i have the will to push through the burn out.

see you next week !