Worth More Than Words

A Side Story for PRESSED: The Final Deadline
Josiah and Winston are cleaning out his late fathers' house to make room.  An unassuming old photograph sitting on the side table leads to a conversation about passing on a simple lesson from one generation to another.
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This side story contains minor spoilers for the plot of the ongoing VN PRESSED and contains mild language and adult situations.  This story is NSFW, 18+ and not for minors.

This is submitted as part of the May 2024 Wolf Jam.  For more information, visit https://itch.io/jam/may-wolf-2024-more-wolves-my-wolf-furry-visual-novel-jam

Development:
May 1: Created "Timothy" sprite and all variations, old photograph background, Child Timothy and Maria Sprites, and wrote 1,500 words of the plot, and title screen song.

May 2:  Created base "Winston" sprite and base "Josiah" sprite.  Created living room backgrounds, and wrote 800 words of the plot and created flashback theme song.

May 3: Finished "Winston" and "Josiah" sprite variations, created father background theme song, and finished the script (around 3,700 words) except minor tweaks.

May 4: Programmed game into Tyranobuilder, made "bonus" Winston sprites for after game, and created Winston and Josiah's theme and ending credits theme.

May 5: Struggled to try and get a working Android build with Tyranobuilder and decided to try learning Ren'py!  Extracted the scene file and modified it to leave only the script, and imported into Ren'py.

May 6: Created a four frame animation for the title screen and finished programming into Ren'py.  Released Mac and Android version.

Programs used:

Tyranobuilder - Original Game Engine
Ren'Py - Current Game Engine
Procreate - Backgrounds, Sprites and Title Screen Animation
PowerDirector - Movie Backgrounds
Sessionband and Garageband - Music production
Audacity - Looping Audio and Converting Audio File Types
GIMP - Modifying Sprite Sizes and Minor Edits