Rainbow Heartbeats

Devlog

• The End of 2024...
  November 05, 2024 by opalizardstudios

  Well! Long time no type! The past year and a bit has been a blur of a lot of personal issues I won't go into detail about - long story short everything was on an extended hiatus while I figured things... Continue reading
• A Stupendous Start to Summer
  May 31, 2024 by opalizardstudios

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  I'm back! Quick update time! I moved again. It's been a tumultuous experience. This is my landlord's first property and they don't know the rules and refuse to follow the rules of our Province regardi... Continue reading
• Another Year Comes and Goes
  October 16, 2023 by opalizardstudios

  It honestly doesn't feel like going on 4 years of working on this project! Some updates: I had to recast 2 voice actors after 1 decided he'd ghost me (and the other decided the character he'd audition... Continue reading
• July comes and goes! - Small hiatus!
  July 23, 2023 by opalizardstudios

  July has been a month of personal changes. New jobs, new homes, new starts. Right now I'm in the process of packing my office up and moving. Things are a little tumultuous in my area because of the hi... Continue reading
• I guess it's May (and eventually June)
  June 26, 2023 by opalizardstudios

  May and June (and eventually July) has been difficult! Not much has been done because I've actually been in the process of moving, and have actually been under such a tremendous amount of stress that... Continue reading
• March Marches into April
  May 06, 2023 by opalizardstudios

  Nothing special happening this month, unless you count me starting a new day job March 1. Let's get to listin'. Picking up where we left off at the end of February, I started taking lines and applying... Continue reading
• Happy New Year! January & February Updates
  February 13, 2023 by opalizardstudios

  Okie dokie artichoke let's get a move on, shall we? January. 6 more voice roles have been cast. 24 characters are left including a bunch of side roles. If anyone is interested you can CLICK HERE , and... Continue reading
• The Holidays (Uh, December)
  December 27, 2022 by opalizardstudios

  We begin with continuing to work on the last of the character interactions before moving on to anything else. Because this is the most tedious portion of making the game, second to the art and third t... Continue reading
• The month between October and December
  November 27, 2022 by opalizardstudios

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  Well, the work continues! So in October not a lot got done. If I'm being honest I was pretty exhausted from the work put into juggling my day job and working on WBTW - I'm still also working on the fi... Continue reading
• It's October Again! 🎃🍭
  October 31, 2022 by opalizardstudios

  It feels like it was just yesterday that it was October 2021. The past couple years have been some of the most stressful in my life with what due to COVID, and personal family issues, work issues, etc... Continue reading
• Awesome August - Programming and a Game Jam
  August 26, 2022 by opalizardstudios

  Let's see how much we can get accomplished this August! So where we left off in July, I was starting on the final programming necessary for the rest of the game on top of reorganizing my fungus flowch... Continue reading
• Joyous July!
  July 22, 2022 by opalizardstudios

  Alliteration rocks, and no one can tell me otherwise. We begin July with the last of the game backgrounds. I worked a 60 hour week last week, so I wasn't able to start back up on backgrounds for real... Continue reading
• Jumping Into June
  June 27, 2022 by opalizardstudios

  It's June! I took a new position with my day job. I now work 10 hour days 4 days a week! So far I'm enjoying my full 3 days off, and the position has gotten me away from the major stressor that came w... Continue reading
• It's Gonna be May
  May 07, 2022 by opalizardstudios

  Well, it's May. I'm still alive at the time of writing this, let's hope that lasts. I don't know who/if anyone remembers what I said about Rainbow Heartbeats when I first started working on it as Doki... Continue reading
• April's State of Being
  April 26, 2022 by opalizardstudios

  March was... interesting to say the least. I wish I had done more. April I feel will be no different, because unfortunately I have a big personal matter to attend to mid-month, so I hope the stress of... Continue reading
• March, March, March
  March 28, 2022 by opalizardstudios

  I was looking through some of the old devlogs I made from the beginning. It's so cute how I keep hoping I'd get finished the demo for Rainbow Heartbeats within a month or two almost every single time,... Continue reading

  
• February is Here!
  February 23, 2022 by opalizardstudios

  Excellent. The demo launch has gone fairly smoothly. Of the several people who did happen to download it, I haven't heard anything back yet, so silence is golden! Moving forward~ At the time of writin... Continue reading
• Welcome to January! Demo Launch!
  January 20, 2022 by opalizardstudios

  One more month and it will have been 1 year since I started these Devlogs. This is also the month I hope things can finally move forward with releasing the game, but you won't know that until I releas... Continue reading
• December! 🎄🎁
  January 02, 2022 by opalizardstudios

  Oh, December. How I both hate and love thee. Christmas is a joyous time with a lot of fond memories, but brings with it snow and bitter cold, as I live in the Great White North. Anyway~! Merry Christm... Continue reading
• November Happenings
  November 28, 2021 by opalizardstudios

  Ahh. November. The lovely month that brings nosebleeds and cracked feet. A silent month between my two favorite holidays, Candy Day and Present Day, where the last of the trees slip into hibernation,... Continue reading
• October! 🦇~ 🎃~🍬🍫🍭
  October 31, 2021 by opalizardstudios

  Each week this month has a special occasion. First it's Turkey day. After that it's Birthday #1. Then after that it's Birthday #2. Then after that it's finally Candy time, which is today at the time o... Continue reading
• September - Pushing Through & State of Demo
  September 20, 2021 by opalizardstudios

  Monthly devlogs seem to be a little easier to manage. Means I don't have to keep track of what's done what day, just add it to the list of things completed. Finished convenience store background art F... Continue reading
• August 23 - 31: Ramping Up Development!
  September 01, 2021 by opalizardstudios

  August 23 I've spent way too long dilly-dallying along not knowing what to do next with Rainbow, and really, I just need to do what's necessary. And what's necessary is moving forward! So. Regardless... Continue reading
• August 1 - 22 :The Future!
  August 22, 2021 by opalizardstudios

  I'm going to adopt the same format I decided to take on for my game jam project, so if anyone's wondering why the sudden format shift - that's why, haha. August 1 It's really upsetting to get home fro... Continue reading
• Renovations & a Teaser!
  June 25, 2021 by opalizardstudios

  Making a game is like getting your house renovated. The contractor says 6 weeks, but what it ends up being is 3 months. That's... frustrating. The voice actor I cast for 2 weeks ago was last seen abou... Continue reading
• The home stretch for the demo!
  June 13, 2021 by opalizardstudios

  I hammered out a few quick things today to help push the demo closer to the finish line. Have any of you seen Sk8 the Infinity? When Langa is learning how to ride early on and is just standing on the... Continue reading
• Finalizing Demo Assets
  May 31, 2021 by opalizardstudios

  When I originally decided on where the demo would end, it was unfinished. The way that I had developed the story routes required new character art and location art, and I had just finished 6 character... Continue reading
• Slow Progress! - is still progress though
  May 11, 2021 by opalizardstudios

  I noticed a lot of my titles for these devlogs are a little negative. 😬 I do enjoy this process, even if it seems like every entry to this process journal sounds like I'm having a bad time haha. We... Continue reading
• Devlog Video Editing & More
  April 16, 2021 by opalizardstudios

  Today's update is going to be a little more chill, on account of at the time of me writing this, I'm yawning and super-dee-dooper tired. All implemented locations have ambience and music, both of whic... Continue reading
• The soundtrack (tm) and other updates!
  April 09, 2021 by opalizardstudios

  Bullet form, I choose you! Bullet form used quick update! It was super effective! Started work on the soundtrack today. The Yummy Flavor (by Umbertones) music I had for the main menu has been replaced... Continue reading
• Variables!
  March 28, 2021 by opalizardstudios

  Today marked the day where I started coding in the variables. Using Fungus variables makes this process super easy, and has actually convinced me to consider continuing to use Fungus even with non - 2... Continue reading
• Rebranding, and having a bad time
  March 22, 2021 by opalizardstudios

  I've had concerns with the title of the game since I decided it's what I wanted to go with. I felt that Doki Doki Rainbow had a ring to it, but I was concerned with people making correlations to DD Li... Continue reading
• Minor (But not really) changes because sanity
  March 12, 2021 by opalizardstudios

  So I boasted the game would have a character creation screen. Being a new developer, I've had to swallow the realization that doing that is just too extensive for my limited HeeHoo monkey brain that h... Continue reading
• Character Customization (and why I hate it)
  March 11, 2021 by opalizardstudios

  This post specifically is for me to complain about how a staple concept in over 60-70% of games in the market is so difficult to actually achieve or locate. You'd think that it would be as easy as Uni... Continue reading
• Fun menus! Crippling fear! Uncertain futures! Oh my!
  March 07, 2021 by opalizardstudios

  So last night I bit off more than I could chew by thinking about all the things I had yet to actually implement, including but not limited to "option menu" functionality, saving/loading features, scen... Continue reading
• Minor, albeit frustrating, setback and plugging along
  February 22, 2021 by opalizardstudios

  On Thursday, I thought it would be a great idea to tackle installing my new desk on my own. It's a more open space for my workstation not only for my day job, but also just in general as far as desks... Continue reading
• Script Changes and Demo Begins
  February 17, 2021 by opalizardstudios

  Just a small update for the first update~! We're finalizing the final stages of the script for the initial 6 characters available in DDR. Once that's finalized we're beginning the main work on the dem... Continue reading