TMatM Demo Update - 6/19/23

I released the second part of my visual novel yesterday! This post is not for shilling it; if you want more info then check the dev post I made on itch. I kinda just wanted to talk about my thoughts and feelings on it here. That being said, there are going to be some slight spoilers, so if you care about that, this is your chance to stop reading!

I released the first version on Mother's Day, then the second version on Father's day. There apparently IS a generic "Parent's Day;" maybe I will aim for that one for the third part. (Children's Day would be cute though too). I kind of had to work my ass off this time around to meet this silly little joke deadline I set for myself though.

I've spent the last few months Extremely Aware of the fact that not very many people are going to read this version. I frankly think it is kind of a hard sell too (especially if you read the original demo), but I needed a middle goal to work towards. In the past few weeks something finally clicked into place in my brain and I stopped dwelling on it and went full tilt back into "I'm MAKING A THING!!!" mode. It's been nice.

I still do hope some people read it though. I'd love to hear people's theories on what's going to happen next.

Jay is formally introduced in this part. He's my favorite. Basically my own personal Sans Undertale. I have no idea how people are going to respond to him as a character. I think it would be very fair if they disliked him (though I hope no one goes out of their way to tell me so, lmao).

(Maestro, despite being a really blatant poor little meow-meow character, barely makes it into my top 5 for this story. Though I think that just says how much I like the rest of the cast in general, hehe.)

Jay is a guy whose entire subplot centers on his passivity, which makes it really funny to me personally that at a meta level during development he was constantly inserting himself into parts of the story where I hadn't planned for him to be. He wasn't even supposed to get his own route.