Goals
🗓️ Steam Full Release (End of Quarter 2)
June 2026
🗓️ Steam Full Release (End of Quarter 2)
May 2026
🗓️ Beta Testing Continues
April 2026
🗓️ Plan Steam Full Release (End of Quarter 2)
🗓️ Next Fest Plan?
🗓️ Beta Testing
March 2026
🗓️ Steam Demo Release (End of Quarter 1)
🗓️ Alpha Testing
February 2026
🐞 Debug & Testing — Polish, optimize, and balance timing/pacing.
🎯 Goal: Stable playable prototype.
🗓️ Alpha Testing Starts
🗓️ Week 14
Generate a playable demo.
Upload on itch.
Announce on youtube, and facebook.
Announce on discord, enter in gamedevtv feedback event for Jan/Feb.
Need player feedback on the demo.
January 2026
🎨 UI Polish — Add transitions, menu effects, star rating screen, and settings refinements.
🎯 Goal: Smooth and polished navigation.
🗺️ Map System — Add US map and local map with clickable destinations and travel logic.
🎯 Goal: Functional travel and date locations.
❤️ Romance Events — Script dialogue choices, story branches, and date sequences.
🎯 Goal: First romance path playable.
🏁 End Game Scenes — Add ending cinematics and About Us / Credits screen.
🎯 Goal: Complete story path playable to end.
❌ Jan 6th Deadline Next Fest on Steam
— no chance of making the deadline.
— research when the next one is.
December 2025
(Mon / Wed / Fri — 2 hrs each)
December Incomplete Tasks:
🧱 Save/Load System: Data validation checks are buggy. Retest and troubleshoot.
🧱 Character Creator: Scenes and menus created, need to link together, and test.
🧱 Character Creator: Need to add global/state engine for saving player data choices.
🧱 Character Creator: Display Character needs to be built
🧠 Record video for VLOG
🧠 VLOG on youtube
🎯 Goal: Catchup and clean up any bugs.
🧠 Match-3 Core — Grid generation, tile swapping, match detection, scoring.
🎯 Goal: Core puzzle gameplay operational.
🔗 Match-3 Integration — Connect match-3 results to story events and progress.
🎯 Goal: Puzzle + story loop functional.
💬 Dialogue System — Implement choice branching, monologue, and two-character dialogue scenes.
💬 Build plugin for reading twinery files for importing story nodes.
💬 Complete GameDev.TV Course on making plugins for godot.
🎯 Goal: Story flow and choices working.
November 2025
(Mon / Wed / Fri — 2 hrs each)
🟢🧱 Project setup — Create Godot project, folder structure, and connect base scenes (title, main menu, settings).
🟢 Record video for VLOG
🟢 VLOG on youtube
🟢🎯 Goal: Base structure working smoothly.
🟢🧩 Scene framework — Add placeholder UIs for all main scenes (Character, Match-3, Dialogue, etc.).
🟢 Record video for VLOG
❌ VLOG on youtube
🟢🎯 Goal: All scenes linked and navigable.
🟢💾 Save / Load System — Implement saving player data, story progress, and choices.
❌ Data validation checks are buggy. Retest and troubleshoot.
🟢 Record video for VLOG
❌ VLOG on youtube
🟢🎯 Goal: Persistent save files working.
🟢 👤 Character Creator — Build name/gender/job selector and store data in Global script.
❌ Scenes and menus created, need to link together, and test.
❌Need to add global/state engine for saving player data choices.
❌ Display Character needs to be built
🟢 Record video for VLOG
❌ VLOG on youtube
🎯 Goal: Player setup functional.
— wk 4 started incomplete…
🔥 Autistic Burn Out. Thanksgiving Holiday.
October 2025
🟢 Create Character Scene and functions
🟢 Create new blog pages
🟢 Create new thumbnails
** migraines persist
September 2025
🟢 Create Title/Start Menu.
🟢 Update website
🟢 Update discord
🟢 Update itch.io page
Week 4
🟢 Create Main Menu
** migraines persist
August 2025
🟢UUID issue diagnosed.
🟢 Fixed existing files, but data still being inconsistent.
🟢 Begin rebuilding in 4.4.1 with C#.
** migraines persist
July 2025
🟢 Health coming back under control. Restarting project.
🟢 Replan, Remap, Review GDD
🟢 Update websites
🟢 Update release date in steam to December.
🟢 Fix Match 3
❌ Node errors, struggling to figure out the problem.
❌ Mid July Migraines fired back off again daily. No progess.
** migraines persist
June 2025
❌Abnormal heat triggering migraines daily. Switched to simpler REDM projects until severe heat passes.
❌ Node errors, struggling to figure out the problem.
❌ Migraines started, can’t think to solve the problems.
May 2025
❌ Fail – Migraines starting back up.
❌ Node errors, struggling to figure out the problem. Settings and scenes not being saved, data in the wrong places. It’s weird.
April 2025
🟢 New polar bear animation.
🟢 Improved character creator.
🟢 Resolved path and node issues, match 3 grid is loading correctly.
🟢 Updated menus, and testing functionality.
🟢 Updated fileio to work with json.
🟢 Updated player data to work with json.
🟢 Play testing to confirm functionality is consistent and accurate.
❌ 🧭 Missed 1st Demo Deadline.
🟢 Replan the RoadMap, account for chronic health issues.
🟢 Redo the kaban board., start day of May.
March 2025
🟢 Computer partial rebuild completed, Dev PC is functional.
🟢 Bought character art assets on Itch.io to help bridge the gaps in my understanding of character design and animation.
🟢 Bought GUI and Icon bundles on itch.io to save time.
🟢 Rebuilt Scenes using new backgrounds, gui, and icons.
🔥 Autistic BurnOut. No Dev. At All.
February 2025
🟢 Play testing and coding on backup linux laptop.
🟠 In Progress Rebuild of Dev PC. More Hardware ordered + Shipping delays due to weather ❄️
🟢 Continued Digital 2d Art Classes for ipad.
🟢 Continued Animation for 2d Art classes.
🟢 Continued Character designing courses.
🟢 Continued troubleshooting node and path issues.
🟢 Started adding multi language support.
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January 2025
🟢 Play testing and coding on backup linux laptop
🟢 Digital 2d Art Classes for ipad.
🟢 Animation for 2d Art classes.
🟢 Character designing courses.
🟢 Polar Bear 2d Character, and Animation Ver. 1
🟢 RedWolf 2d Character, and Animation Ver. 1
🟠 In Progress Rebuild of Dev PC. Hardware ordered + Shipping delays due to weather ❄️.
December 2024
🟢 Rebuild scenes, and built button action into items.
🟢 Added features to the load and save menu.
🟢 Worked on data management for player.
🟢 Worked on data management for levels.
🟢 Changed data file structure to json.
🟢 Rebuild scoreboard and score tracking.
🟢 Rebuild the dialogue gui, and testing.
🟢 Bought GUI art Assets on Itch.io
🟢 Rebuild settings scene, added in sound sliders.
🟢 Simplified the about us scene.
🟢 Rebuild the score menu to only have the top scores.
🟢 Rebuild the help scene to show input controls.
🟢 Rebuild chapter 1 story db in json.
🟢 Debugged NODE and path errors.
🔥 PC DIED
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November 2024
🟢 Bought books on creating Game Maps for RPG and DND.
🟢 Made a variety of 2d maps for different game ideas.
🟢 Added world maps into the game.
🧸🟢 Pixel Art Environments: Design & Animate 2D Environments From Scratch!
🟢 Started working on backgrounds RPG style, for animations.
❌ 🧭 Missed 2ND Prototype Deadline.
🟢 Replan the RoadMap, account for migraines, and DR visits.
🟢 Redo the kaban board.
October 2024
🔥 OS Failure after audio driver updates. Rebuild Dev PC.
🟢 Purchased pixel art classes on GameDevTv.
🧸🟢 Pixel Art Characters: Design & Animate a 2D Character!
🧸🟢 Pixel Art Fundamentals: Learn the Basics of 2D Game Art
🟢 Worked through book examples with analog art supplies.
🟢 Worked through book examples with ipad clip studio pain art program.
🟢 Purchased pixel studio for the ipad, and windows to work with.
September 2024
🔥 OS Failure after video driver update. Rebuild Dev PC.
🟢 Play testing on backup linux laptop, making notes of issues, and changes that are needed.
🟢 Installed Godot for linux,
🟢 Installed Github desktop for linux.
🟢 Started debugging and troubleshooting errors.
🟢 Purchased human character pixel art books.
🟢 Worked through book examples with analog art supplies.
🟢 Worked through book examples with ipad clip studio pain art program.
🟢 Retook the Jazza character design class.
August 2024
🔥 OS Failure after update. Rebuild Dev PC.
❌ 🧭 Missed Prototype Deadline.
🟢 Replan the RoadMap, account for migraines, and DR visits.
🟢 Redo the kaban board.
🟢 Play testing on backup linux laptop, making notes of issues, and changes that are needed.
🟢 Pixel Art classes, character design classes, ipad digital art classes
July 2024
🟢 Create a dialogue db.
🟢 Write chapter 1 of dialogue.
🟢 Storyboard visual concepts for chapter1.
🟢 First art class and attempts at pixel art.
🟢 Build dialogue scenes.
June 2024
🟢 Build the game window.,
🟢 Build basic match 3 functionality.
🟢 Build basic character animations.
🟢 Build scoreboard.
🟢 Build win and loose states.
May 2024
Create the basic scenes for each of the menu features the game needs.
🟢 Title
🟢 Start / Main Menu
🟢 About Us
🟢 Settings
🟢 Save / Load Game
🟢 Star Menu (Win State)
🟢 Character Menu (New / Edit)
🟢 Scores
🟢 Dialogue
🟢 Help Menu
