Achlys: Book 1: The World as She Saw It

Devlog

• Dev Log 10: This Moment In June
  June 22, 2024 by Speisu

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  "For Heaven only knows why one loves it so, how one sees it so, making it up, building it round one, tumbling it, creating it every moment afresh; but the veriest frumps, the most dejected of miseries... Continue reading

  
• Dev Log 9: The Grind Continues
  May 04, 2024 by Speisu

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  Just wanted to apologize for my disappearance as of late, believe it or not I had a few dev logs all typed up like the Chloe one all ready to send but I couldn’t bring myself to send it yet. I’ve... Continue reading

  
• Dev Log 8: Chloe, The All American
  May 04, 2024 by Speisu

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  A few years ago (geez that makes me feel old), as I began working on Achlys, I thought a lot about how I wanted to promote the game, or what I wanted to talk about. Granted, I think I could have done... Continue reading

  
• Dev Log 7: Ellie, The Mysterious Waif
  March 11, 2024 by Speisu

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  (Spoilers Abound) For a girl who appears on the cover of the game, Ellie is a character who you really don’t interact with much. See that’s a spoiler already, you were warned. She’s the cover gi... Continue reading

  
• Dev Log 6: The Agile Methodology of VN Dev
  February 13, 2024 by Speisu

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  If you didn’t catch my earlier Version post titled “ Version 1.01! or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Agile (I don't) ” you can guess that I am not the biggest fan of Agile development... Continue reading

  
• Dev Log 5: The First Project
  January 30, 2024 by Speisu

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  #Dev Log, #DevLog

  The past few days, maybe even weeks, have been a string of incredible grey, foggy days, with snow and ice here and there. I’ve developed a funny routine of smiling into the fog and saying “Hello E... Continue reading

  
• Version 1.04: Ellie Color You Like
  January 30, 2024 by Speisu

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  (Title is meant to be a reference to Pink Floyd's Any Color You Like. If I got to pick a choice of music for the VN other than what I had already used, I would say that for Floor 2's Elevator Part, I... Continue reading

  
• Dev Log 4: I’m staring into the void, when will it stare back into me?
  January 24, 2024 by Speisu

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  (My title sounds like a post rock song) For me, it took great courage to release Achlys. From what I have heard from other members of the community, a release, especially a debut, is something of a re... Continue reading

  
• Dev Log 3: My Strange World
  January 17, 2024 by Speisu#Book 1, #Dev Log, #History

  Something that was brought to me by a member of a forum where I posted the game on had asked a question about how the dream elements were handled. Then at a separate point, Konvel , when giving me a s... Continue reading

  
• Dev Log 2.5: History of the End of the World - Part 2
  January 09, 2024 by Speisu#DevLog

  The practical reality of Achlys would be much simpler to explain. In late May 2021, I would begin to try to create a H VN with a friend who had gotten into game dev. You can imagine how once I got to... Continue reading

  
• Version 1.03: Asymptotically Approaching 0 Typos
  January 06, 2024 by Speisu#Bugfix

  Welcome back to another episode of minor typo correction! Today with our special guest: Changed hear to her in Noel's intro dialogue Yep that's it. Thanks for Watching... Continue reading

  
• Dev Log 2: History of the End of the World - Part 1
  January 05, 2024 by Speisu#Dev Log, #Book 1, #History

  A little while ago, I was having a conversation with fellow VN dev and good friend Konvel about when Achlys had begun, and whether I was technically his senpai because I had been working on this for s... Continue reading

  
• Version 1.02... I can't help myself
  January 04, 2024 by Speisu#Update, #Bugfix

  As always, one good bugfixing session begets another. Fixed two minor instances where notifications after scenes do not match up with underlying logic As a general rule, do people have any issues or p... Continue reading

  
• Version 1.01! or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Agile (I don't)
  January 04, 2024 by Speisu#Update, #Bugfix

  Hey Guys, Version 1.01! Which means that someone had quickly found an error for me to fix, and so I did. Removed an unnecessary line of code for rpy monologues, apparently the linux version doesn't li... Continue reading

  
• Dev Log 1: Introduction to Achlys
  January 02, 2024 by Speisu#Dev Log, #Book 1

  On January 1, 2024, some random person decided to publish a VN, their very first VN, amounting to ~76,000 words and ~2000 renders without so much as a preview, a patreon, any announcement, anything. J... Continue reading