Hello. This is Altila, the dev.

This game, Unsent Letter, is my entry for O2A2 VN Jam 2023. This game is so far my fastest work. The game jam started on July 21st, 2023. I submitted it 8 days 15 hours before the deadline. I did solo, by the way.

• Preparation

At first, I have no intention of entering any game jams because I'm preparing to study abroad and some stuff. However, as soon as the jam starts, I suddenly felt like participating since that day was the weekend. Also, looking at the rules, I can just make short and simple VN. Yeah, 

I was never the prepared type. I was doing things spontaneously.

• Writing

Then, I started writing somehow. Actually, I want to make a short comedy story about writing a love letter. But, I realize that I cannot make anything funny. In the end, I just pick one from my list of original characters in the backlog and made a story out of it. So, I wrote things and by the time I finished and checked the word counts, it was already already around 1000 words long. I just change things a little to fit the requirement.

• Arts

As for the art, I just use CG instead of the usual sprite+bg and CG just to save myself from the hassle. I was drawing in the middle of my online language class. Haha. Please don't follow my example! I post it on Twitter, but the draft for the CG was actually the opposite way of the current one.

However, I realized something wasn't quite right. According to the sketch of Evan Wilhelm that I made long ago, the man had an eyepatch on his right eye.  Here is my old sketch of Evan (bruh, he is so handsome):

If I went with that image, well... his other eye wouldn't be visible and you would be staring at his eyepatch instead. So, I flipped the image. Still, I was too lazy to fix the hand, so I just assumed that he was writing with his left hand. Not because he was left-handed but ambidextrous! Also, I made him smile at the end so there was a variation and not too static (and to convey that he found his 'salvation').

• BGM

Well, nothing much. I just picked from my BGM folder that I downloaded from dova. The moment I heard the BGM I was like "this is it!" and it looked like that BGM was indeed the correct choice.

• Conclusion

O2A2 is more fun than I thought! I can just make a simple, short game and it's actually fun and not too time-consuming!

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By the way, if anyone wondering how does Edgar look like, here is his sketch (the cover image of this post):