DevLog #9 (Long Overdue)

October 1, 2025

This day will go down in history as the day that TakaNeko Gaming launched its first game. 

Our history. Our studio's history - is what I meant. This has no bigger impact on the world at large. It's just a fact for us to keep track of. 

AH! What a week it has been. I think we announced that the game would be launching a couple of weeks ago. Every step of the way since then has been nerve racking. We were going back to the game and checking again and again to make sure everything was working at 99%. It could never be 100% because there was always something that didn't work the first time all the time. How do you load up the game and get the same bug only 45% of the time? It's like the game couldn't decide if it wanted to play ball or not. Very confusing stuff. 

I'm hoping beyond hope that this is something we can iron out when the next game goes into production. It's just better to catch things like this early. We had a lot of issues with sound effects playing at the correct time, and (quite literally) invisible forces causing the timing to go backwards and forwards. HOW?! XDXD

In the end, we ironed out 99% of everything. The things that made us unhappy with a build got squared away the more time we put into it. I'm hoping I can make a video someday where I walk through the game and explain all of the nuances that went into everything. It's a small game. It's a tiny project - but A LOT went into making it work. And the impressive part is that it's finished. 

I don't normally finish something that's this big and time consuming. I'm just... wowed.

Thank you everyone for your support, and most importantly, your patience. I really hope players can have a good time with this one, for good or ill. For us, we finished. It's out there. The foot is in the door. 

TakaNeko Gaming is a self-published Indie Developer now. >_< Time to plan for the next game!