The Final Development Log

New Recollection Room Features

I’ve also added several new features to the Recollection Room.

• Preview each scene before playing it

• Freely switch between any title screen CGs you have unlocked

• Unlock the entire CG gallery at once with the new “Unlock All CGs” option

The screenshots above show the new scene preview and title screen CG selection features.

Release Is Finally Here

Before the upload was finished, I thought I would feel an overwhelming sense of accomplishment once everything was finally done.

But when that moment actually came, it felt strangely unreal. Rather than excitement, it felt as though everything that had been keeping me tense suddenly loosened, leaving an empty space inside me.

So this is it.
The game is really about to be released.

The Past Six Months

It has been roughly six months since I restarted the project. Looking back, those six months feel less like half a year and more like a very long journey.

When I first resumed development, I asked myself almost every day:

“Can a solo developer really complete a game of this scale?”

The maps, systems, combat, story, presentation, CGs, and support for three different languages all grew far beyond what I had originally imagined.

Throughout development, I reconsidered the direction of the game more than once. Every route went through repeated revisions. Some content had already been completed, only to be torn apart and rebuilt from the ground up. There were even parts of the story that I continued rewriting right up until the final days before release.

Development was never smooth. There were periods when the project became so chaotic that even I felt as though I no longer knew what I was doing.

Even so, I somehow managed to reach the end.

“I did everything I could.” Part of me wants to say that now.

And yet, I still find myself wondering whether one section could have been improved further, or whether I could have added something more somewhere else.

Perhaps creators never truly reach a point where they can look at their own work and sincerely say, “This is enough.”

What I Still Wanted to Do

I still have many regrets about this game.

There was much more I wanted to show everyone. I wanted certain routes, systems, and scenes to feel even richer and more complete.

There is still room to improve the Recollection Room, add more scenes from the heroine’s perspective, and expand the game’s more open-ended elements.

However, in order to release the game within the limited time available, I eventually had to draw a line somewhere. For the initial release, this is where the game will stand.

The elements I was unable to develop as fully as I wanted will be gradually expanded and improved through post-release updates.

There is still a great deal of room for this game to grow. As long as circumstances allow, I intend to continue improving it and raising its overall level of polish.

To Everyone Who Supported Me

I would also like to take this opportunity to sincerely thank everyone who has supported me throughout this journey.

Whenever development became painful, and whenever I felt that my body or mind might not be able to keep going, I would open Patreon and reread your comments and messages from those waiting for the game.

To be honest, those expectations sometimes placed a great deal of pressure on me. At the same time, however, they also gave me the strength to move forward again.

There are people waiting for this game.
There are people who believe I can finish it.

Your words reminded me of that again and again.

Having people support me is not something I should take for granted. Neither is having people play a game I created—let alone spend their own money to purchase it.

This is an incredibly valuable opportunity that I have been given. It is also a form of trust placed in me by everyone who has supported the project, and that trust deserves to be treated with care.

That is why I never allowed myself to stop easily.

Over these past six months, I have poured as much of my time, energy, and emotion into this game as I possibly could.

I do not know what kind of reception the game will ultimately receive. I also do not know how fully it will live up to everyone’s expectations.

But at the very least, the game that existed only on my computer for so long is finally about to reach all of you.

Joy. Tension. Anger. Sadness.
Whatever the game makes you feel.

If, even for a brief moment, it makes you genuinely care about one of its characters, then I will feel that everything I went through during these six months had meaning.

Whatever reviews or impressions I receive after release, I intend to accept them sincerely. I will continue to preserve and build upon the things that worked well. As for the areas that were lacking, I will gradually improve them through future updates.

When I think back to the person I was when I restarted this project—the person who asked almost every day whether I could truly finish it—I can finally give him an answer.

I finished it.

Of course, it is still not perfect. There are many things I regret, and many more things I still wanted to do.

Even so, this game is now complete, and it will soon officially make its way into your hands.

Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, to everyone who has walked this far with me.