TDVN1 Development Blog

TDVN1 is a Ren'Py visual novel project.

Project Update - 4/24/2026

Every day is a little better. Slowly. Surely. I will heal.

Sitting at the bar while my friend slings Moosehead, it's a fine space to write. Coding on my phone? Bad idea.

"I got laid off from the steel factory for eating the ingots." Not a sentence I thought I'd hear today. Thanks boss. I'm sorry that your boss banned drinking Red Bull in front of the customers.

sadgrl.online might be the goat. I dont know anything about them but their documentation is fire.

It's kind of funny. Writing a line of nonsense between drinks. I like it. I like the new words I've written. Not here, in Ren'Py.

I was wrong.

- TsundereDev

Project Update - 4/21/2026

It is difficult to articulate my present emotions.

Desperately attempting to rationalize how little I feel, how numb I've become to the soft humming ache of an idealized future we charted that will never come to pass, I'm crying my eyes out to the Secretariat documentary.

Yet, there is no sense in retracing our every step with an unsure pen. I still hold you fondly in my head. Though your fears will forever be inscribed in my mind, I won't waste the best of me in alcohol, nor regret.

Cathartic release. I had forgotten what personal writing could bring. Tucked away in unfinished scripts, my adolescent heart expressed his first heartbreak. Sweeping visions of half-baked heroic fantasy infused with the type of melodramatic misanthropy all too prevalent during post-secondary. Looking back, it all seems so juvenile.

Perhaps it's still juvenile. Still, perhaps there's something worth revisiting in those old, unfinished scripts.

I wrote 22 words today:

"Have you had any innovative hot sauces as of late? I believe that I can be a disruptor in the pepper space."

There is little value in what I write. At this time, I'd like to keep it that way. It's slop but it's human slop.

I'm officially resuming work on the halted Visual Novel project. I'm not doing this with the intent of profiting. I'm not writing with the desire to create some substantial piece of art. I just want to do something that matters to absolutely no one but me.

- TsundereDev