They Have My Daughter!

Devlog

• Postmortem: They Have My Daughter
  June 14, 2025 by Ayelis#Godot, #Visual Novel, #Choices matter, #Horror, #AI art, #Branching narrative, #Lessons learned, #Eldritch horror

  They Have My Daughter is a "choices matter" visual novel with eldritch horror, cults, and a touch of Hatchetfield weirdness. All right, in all honesty I didn't wake up this morning with the goal of wr... Continue reading

  
• It's finally here! Something like v1.0!
  June 04, 2025 by Ayelis

  This thing was hovering at 0.9b for so long, I wasn't sure it would ever make it, but I'm calling it. Anything else is just a very minor bugfix at this point. Official stats as of 1.0: 12 items 8 endi... Continue reading

  
• Finalizing the dialogue... v0.9𝛼... 0.9♭... 0.9.9.5𝛼♭...
  June 03, 2025 by Ayelis#Last few bugs, #Storyline edits, #Grinding away

  A lot of bugs have been fixed. A few remain in this version, and while I've fixed them in code, I'm working on that final dialogue. Right now you just pick an ending. That's no fun! That breaks suspen... Continue reading

  
• Quality of life fixes... v0.8♭
  May 26, 2025 by Ayelis

  Made some big changes this time around: The inventory screen gives you more information about each item you have (which it did before) but now it looks nicer and works on mobile. You now have the opti... Continue reading

  
• But can you pet the dog? v0.7♭
  May 12, 2025 by Ayelis

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  #Bugfixes, #Replayability, #HTML Mode, #Beta, #Pet the Dog

  As promised, today's fancy new update includes Volume settings for both music AND interface sound effects (which exist now), a "Play Again" button to restart your game from the beginning, and many man... Continue reading

  
• Squashing the bugs... v0.6𝛼
  May 08, 2025 by Ayelis#Debugging, #Music, #Itch, #Web

  Been working on debugging and tidying up the project a bit. Also, trying to get the HTML version running on Itch. Got all the display issues worked out, and the game window renders fine, but the Audio... Continue reading

  
• THMD v0.5𝛼
  May 06, 2025 by Ayelis#MVP, #Alpha Version, #Psychological Horror, #Game, #Elder Gods

  Hi everyone! SM here, getting into the swing of things: learning Godot, vibe-coding a new game for a game jam, taking courses at Harvard online, tackling Codewars, building AI, and whatever else I can... Continue reading