Nagayami Nights [Devlogs]

Devlog

• Devlog #47: Sign Ghost
  October 19, 2023 by Yozoraki

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  Short one this week- I got loads done and it's been one of the most productive weeks I've had in a while but it was mostly backend stuff like refactoring and general organisation after I realised how... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #46: Hedge Maze
  October 12, 2023 by Yozoraki

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  I’m not doing so great at staying on deadline with these devlogs lately, but when I’m making good progress on the game because I’m procrastinating writing then I’ll use it to my advantage. Her... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #45: Hype with Rhythm
  October 06, 2023 by Yozoraki

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  Been another crappy week for me, but I’ve made some progress in odd places. Not gonna show the new area for spoiler reasons, so I'll show off some more work-in-progress stuff. ----------------------... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #44: Indoors
  September 28, 2023 by Yozoraki

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  Long time no devlog! Life isn't going my way lately, and I didn't make any real progress for a long while but I'm slowly returning to usual levels of productivity, and that includes getting back on sc... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #43: Ayumu's HIT (again)
  August 25, 2023 by Yozoraki

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  I’m still in a slump, but doing my best to get out of it. This week I got none of the stuff done that I wanted to last week, but I did do some smaller things that I’ve been putting off. ----------... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #42: Post-Mother Direct
  August 17, 2023 by Yozoraki

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  Been a while, but I’m back and forcing myself to write this now to try and get back into the groove even though I’m really not feeling it lately. We had our family dog put down, and it’s sucked... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #41: Pre-Mother Direct
  July 27, 2023 by Yozoraki

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  The direct is finally here, and I’m mostly nervous but excited too. I’m feeling super burnt out, so honestly I’m mostly looking forward to not having any immediate deadlines left. I’m keeping... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #40: Skill Trees
  July 14, 2023 by Yozoraki

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  The trailer reveal in the Mother Direct is two weeks away now and I'm making steady progress on the demo. And hey, I've made it to 40 devlogs, neat! Nothing special to mark the occassion though, just... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #39: Skip Intro
  July 06, 2023 by Yozoraki

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  In spite of a stressful week (of which I spent a significant amount of time sleeping off the medication for the giant throbbing spider bite on my forehead), I’ve managed to make some progress. If yo... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #38: Trailer Announcement
  June 28, 2023 by Yozoraki

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  For over two weeks now I’ve been working on the trailer and as of yesterday I finally got it finished. But- I won’t be showing it off yet because I’ve been making it in preparation for this anno... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #37: POW animations
  June 15, 2023 by Yozoraki

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  I’ve been sick this week so things have been going slowly, but I got the POW animations I’ve been dreading done... and not much else. ------------------------------------ Animations Here's the (mo... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #36: Ghost Town
  June 09, 2023 by Yozoraki

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  It’s been a stressful week outside of gamedev, but I’m feeling better than ever about my game. I didn’t get an excessive amount done this week, but I feel like I’ve finally hit the point where... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #35: Forest
  June 01, 2023 by Yozoraki

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  The draft for the trailer is done with the idea and timing set up, now I'm just filling in the placeholder parts. A lot of that is still in the works, so another short devlog this week. I've spent mos... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #34: A Quick Update
  May 24, 2023 by Yozoraki

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  I’m back from my zelda break, and I have done nothing as planned! Well actually I have done some stuff, but nothing that would make for a good devlog, so this week will just be a quick update. -----... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #33: Basecamp
  May 10, 2023 by Yozoraki

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  I started the week continuing to chip away at the goals I set two weeks ago, and made a bit of progress before getting sidetracked (in a good way). So I instead spent most of this week reworking sprit... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #32: Void and Snow
  May 03, 2023 by Yozoraki

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  Been a pretty decent week, steadily working through the goals I set last week, but also did a bunch of other stuff that came to mind. Two week goals- -Xbox/PS controller support: Done! (but still need... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #31: Ayumu's POW
  April 27, 2023 by Yozoraki

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  It’s been a better week than most, and it feels like I’m finally out of my rut. I got a bunch of random stuff done, audio, dialogue and back end stuff I’ve been putting off for a while, which do... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #30: Gamepad
  April 20, 2023 by Yozoraki

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  Thirty devlogs, damn! I’m happy with myself that I’ve stayed committed to these. ...Shame that this week’s is an underwhelming one. This week was one of my classic gamedev ruts where it’s hard... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #29: Yusuke In Action
  April 12, 2023 by Yozoraki

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  I finally released the long-promised polished update last week, and I’m very happy with how it turned out. I playtested it myself multiple times and got my brother to play it through again so I’m... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #28- Chests and Chats
  March 30, 2023 by Yozoraki

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  I’ve had a very productive week, and although my game is still not quite ready to release the update I’m super happy with how it’s going and have no doubt it’ll be ready very soon. I’ve fini... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #27- Big Cob
  March 22, 2023 by Yozoraki

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  Writing these devlogs is always somewhat of a chore that I push myself through, but weeks like these are always the hardest- The weeks where I feel very behind where I had hoped to be. I could blame t... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #26- EXP stock
  March 08, 2023 by Yozoraki

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  Last week's goal of getting a fully polished version of the game so far is well on it's way, all the new systems are fully implemented and I'm on to playtesting. How long it takes from now is dependen... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #25- Practice Battles
  March 01, 2023 by Yozoraki

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  I’ve added a lot of new systems to the game recently (training, hardmode, swapping leaders, team layout, quiz, exp stock) but haven’t integrated them perfectly into the existing systems and tutori... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #24- Hardmode
  February 22, 2023 by Yozoraki

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  This week has been a bit of a cursed one: Because of non-game dev commitments, generally bad sleep and overall game-dev slump, I got very little done compared to usual- although I did make some progre... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #23- Wesley and Stun
  February 16, 2023 by Yozoraki

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  This week was very productive and most of it I can actually show without spoiling too much! L ast week’s goals : -Finish the boss (continued from last week) : DONE! -Polish Wesley’s area to a play... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #22- Party Swapping
  February 09, 2023 by Yozoraki

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  Another quick update devlog this week, real life stuff has got in the way a bit (thus late devlog). I’ve mostly been finishing the cut-scenes and enemies for Wesley’s area, but I got a bunch of ra... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #21- Codex and Dark Places
  February 01, 2023 by Yozoraki

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  2 weeks ago I set myself a goal to finish the next area of the game by today. And as of today, I have set up all the rooms for the area (although half of them are entirely unfurnished) and the main cu... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #20- Demo Released!
  January 25, 2023 by Yozoraki

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  Last week I finally got around to releasing my long-promised demo, and it took a lot more out of me than I thought so I skipped on the weekly devlog. This week I'm gonna do a postmortem of sorts, talk... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #19- Run and Lucky Time
  January 11, 2023 by Yozoraki

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  I’ve made a decent amount of progress this week. My brother has been playtesting my demo and giving me feedback, and he’s not a fan of JRPGs or even played any games in the genre but he’s been l... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #18- Status Effects
  January 04, 2023 by Yozoraki

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  The demo is still not ready for public release, but I’ve been getting some good reactions so far. I’ve been mostly working on fixes and polish still, but I did get very sidetracked for a bit this... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #17- Grab Bag
  December 28, 2022 by Yozoraki

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  There's no focused design topic this week so I’ve opted to using Sakurai’s terminology and this week will be a grab bag of random new stuff I want to show off. As for the demo, things are going we... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #16- Dialogue
  December 21, 2022 by Yozoraki

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  This week, once again, I am working towards the demo and I’m getting oh-so very close! At this point it’s mostly just polishing up menus and systems, as most of the demo content itself is complete... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #15- Building
  December 14, 2022 by Yozoraki

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  This week has been, surprisingly, a very productive one. Although maybe I shouldn’t be surprised because ups after downs is such a big part of my game dev process. I’ve polished a lot of existing... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #15- Quests
  December 07, 2022 by Yozoraki

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  Hello all, I'm back from a two week break. I was busy for most of the time so there hasn't been much progress, but I've gotten back into it over the last few days. To be completely frank, I'm in quite... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #14- Saving
  November 16, 2022 by Yozoraki

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  I’ve recently been working on saving and loading systems, and it’s a pain but satisfying when it works. This is the first game I’ve ever made with a save/load feature as all my other jam games h... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #13- Buildings
  November 09, 2022 by Yozoraki

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  As promised last time, this week’s devlog is about buildings in my game so let's jump right in- -Houses- First up I'll show some of the houses I’ve made so far. You will be able to enter all of th... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #12- Rina's Power
  November 02, 2022 by Yozoraki

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  This week I haven't done a lot of interesting stuff, but I have finally finished the tutorial! There's still some minor adjustments on the list, and after play-testing there'll likely be a tonne more,... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #11- NPCs
  October 26, 2022 by Yozoraki

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  I’m very close to finishing the tutorial for my game, and so I’ve finally started working on some fun stuff for change! I’ve held back from doing world-building, quests and characters, because I... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #10- The Tutorial
  October 19, 2022 by Yozoraki

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  Hello again. A week spent in Melbourne for PAX and then a week spent sick in bed from PAX meant I unfortunately missed a couple of weeks, but I’m now only moderately sick and ready to get back to we... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #9- Mac's Turn
  September 28, 2022 by Yozoraki

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  Most modern RPGs have a battle gimmick of some sort, and I guess you could say today’s devlog topic is my main gimmick. Other than the ~4 characters selected for your party, you also get control ove... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #8- Powers
  September 21, 2022 by Yozoraki

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  Hello again, I’m tired and I forgot that today was the day I do devlogs but I’m committed to doing them weekly so let’s go. ------------------------- Powers Each turn a party member has four opt... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #7- Collectibles
  September 14, 2022 by Yozoraki

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  This weeks devlog is about my approach to collectibles. ---------------- As I’ve said in previous devlogs, Nagayami Nights will not feature a main currency such as gold or dollars. This is in part b... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #6.5- Steam page is up!
  September 10, 2022 by Yozoraki

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  Over the last week I’ve been preparing my steam storefront page, and yesterday it was approved and now publicly visible on the store! Go give it a wishlist now to pump motivation into my veins >>> h... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #6- Shouting
  September 03, 2022 by Yozoraki

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  This week I’m gonna talk about a semi-original mechanic I’ve decided to use for NPC interaction. I refer to this mechanic as Shouting and it's inspired by the way interacting with an NPC works in... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #5- Levels and Upgrades
  August 27, 2022 by Yozoraki

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  This week I want to talk a bit about leveling and upgrades. I’ve written previously about how low numbers is a big part of my design, and that ideal continues for leveling. For the main game I had o... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #4- Ghosts and Jumpscares
  August 21, 2022 by Yozoraki

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  In other turn-based JRPGs there are two main ways of doing overworld battles- random battles where you don’t see the enemy until the battle starts ( Pokemon, OG Final Fantasy ), or enemies you can s... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #3- Creating a Prologue
  August 13, 2022 by Yozoraki

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  Hey. In this devlog I’m gonna go over some major updates I’ve made to the project over the last few months. -A NEW TITLE- If you were following previously, you may have noticed that I change the g... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #2 - Time for Battle
  December 18, 2021 by Yozoraki

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  Long time, no see! University work has been incredibly taxing on me, so against all urges I decided it was best to to put aside GameMaker for the 6 month duration of my last semester, and that meant n... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #1- What's this about?
  March 17, 2021 by Yozoraki

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  Introduction: About me Hi! First of all, thank you for your interest in my project. I hope to continuously update these devlogs so I hope you’ll follow my progress! I go by the name Yozoraki when I... Continue reading