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A point-and-click horror/tragedy visual novel about melding your perception of the world around you. Walk around, drive people to their death, and shape Perdita's existence. Remember: The flesh-sin is nothing. Before she can become everything, you must make her into something.

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Progress Update #2 - April 2026

Apr 1

Hey all!

Glad I didn’t make the same mistake I did with VLT in announcing a date before I get it set in stone, because it happened again. I didn’t realize how much I had left to do, actually! I’m only just now 100% finishing up with Act 1 (CGs, sprites, and other things I’ve missed along the way) and cleaning up the main meat of Act 2’s Human encounter. There’s a lot of stuff I’ve been working on behind the scenes that can’t really be explained in a simple devlog, so we’re going to stick to the stuff that can be shown off on a social media post.

Added something new and interesting to Act 2 - back sprites! I’ve always loved visual novels that gave you more than just a flat head-on direction for character sprites, so that’s something I wanted to do for ACoMI as well. I’ll probably add them in to Act 3 once I get the demo up and running, but for now this should make the cinematography feel cleaner and more dynamic.

I’m still mucking around a bit with the positioning of back-sprites, how to get the transition from front-facing to back-facing cleaner, and things like that, but I’m really pleased with how the sprite itself came out! My hope is to make the point-of-focus clearer in certain scenes, as that’s a pretty big thing that I’ve always had gripes about with a lot of visual novels I’ve read before.

Started working on the art for the majority of Act 2, now that Act 1 is pretty much done except for spriting one last branch! A lot of it is objects that’ll get positioned around the area Perdita is in (something that a player is introduced to in Act 1), but I’ve gotten a few CGs at least sketched out as well. To be honest, a lot of this month was primarily work behind-the-scenes with scripting and spriting, but I’m trying to get more art done to make up for that.
Finally biting the bullet on drawing Draconic Mania’s sprite! It’s a little embarrassing to say, considering how major of a character he is, but I’ve been putting it off for a while now - only using his sketch during my programming so I can get coordinates right. It does feel good to finally cross that off my list, though!

Balancing out how much work I want to do on the “boring” stuff (programming and writing) vs the “flashy” parts of the game (art) at a time is something that I’ve never been able to figure out, even after being a visual novel developer for… 5 years now, I think. Plus, getting all the artwork done month-per-month does make for some pretty good development logs, but it’ll make for some very boring posts afterwards. Hoping I’ll have something more exciting in May!

For now, here’s a piece I’m really proud of:Thanks a bunch for reading through this post! If you want something to chew on while waiting for ACoMI, why not try my other game, Veins Like Tapeworms? It goes on sale pretty regularly and has a 2-chapter demo totally for free!

See you soon!

Trinket

A Case of Missing Identity

Progress Update #1 - March 2026

Mar 1

Hey all!

One of the things I think I could've improved on with the development cycle of my first game, Veins Like Tapeworms, was making sure less people were kept in the dark about how it was going. To be honest, I'm not too great at posting regularly on social media and reaching out to people to play my game — I'm good at chucking bite-sized updates out into the void (first on Twitter and then BlueSky), but long-form stuff is just something I'm not familiar with. So, with that said, I'd like to get into the flow of things with monthly progress updates! I figured it'd look nice to have something come out on ACoMI's Steam page every now and then, so it doesn't wrongfully look like the game is abandoned or anything.

Let’s talk about ACoMI, and the things I’ve been doing with it since getting the Steam page up!

Finished putting the first half of Act 2’s script in the engine! I’m not done with adding in sound effects, extra animations, etc. to pretty things up, but for what it’s worth the most grueling of the slogwork is over with. There’s over 12,000 words worth of Act 2 content right now; mind you, most of this is branches and variations thanks to the choices you can make to get new traits/lines you experience based on what traits you have, but all of Act 1 is 13,000~ words. Act 1, together with Act 2, is 25,000~ words.
Fully implemented the introductory branch for Wisteria’s Heavenly Knight in Act 1. That includes the sound effects, choices, art; everything!

I think I’ve finished 7~ CGs, not counting variants and other poses. (If you do count them, that number is closer to…I’d say 20?) I’ll probably do a running count next month, but right now I’m pretty tired and forgot what I have and haven’t finished post-trailer.

Laid down the groundwork for 4 different Traits you can gain in Act 2, not counting Major Traits. You probably won’t be able to gain any of them in the first half of Act 2, but that’s currently up for debate.

Fun fact - did you know the demo of Veins Like Tapeworms is 13,000 words in itself? That’s 2 chapters, one ending, and one Bonus scene! That means ACoMI’s demo has almost twice the amount of content as VLT’s demo! Sorry if it takes a little longer for me to get it up and running; there’s so much for me to do. (I love doing it, though, and it’s thanks to you all that I’m able to pursue game development as a passion!)

Thanks a bunch for sticking around! This is a semi-new thing for me, and I hope I can keep the motivation to do these longer posts of what I’ve been working on. The demo should hopefully come soon. I’m aiming for a late-March or early-April release, but I’m not going to put anything in stone until I have everything in the engine. Trust me, VLT taught me that the hard way.

See you soon!
Trinket

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