Yugioh VN Log

This is a long term project of mine! I usually end up forgetting to actually finish quite literally most of my projects however so this is my method of keeping myself accountable. I have a tumblr blog for my deltarune fan project however, so if you want to deal with that go over to bre-hub on tumblr. 

Anyways, have my ramblings. 

January 1, 2026: Yugi and Kaiba designs

Everything's good, progress on the script is steady and it's working up to about 3,000 words now. Which means the prologue is complete and chapter 1 is roughly halfway done, maybe a third if it wants to be a little longer. 

But the main reason I'm writing this entry today is because I've settled on a couple major art style elements and finished Yugi's and Kaiba's designs. And considering their relationship is very crucial to my version of the story, I wanted to get these done first.

originals:

new:

Most of the differences are actually pretty subtle, I wanted to give Yugi less of an anime protag face and make his more afrocentric features more prominant, I gave Kaiba bigger ears, and the color pallete is more muted. Vibrant colors are very very imporant to Yugioh's visual identity but having a muted baseline for more everyday scenes that would benefit from one would be beneficial to a completed projects visual identity. 

I also decided that each character's signiture color would shown in not just their eyes, but also in the shadows around their noses. Yugi and Yami actually have different colors, so when Yami possesses Yugi the purple will turn hot pink (also featured in Yugi's design). 

That's all for now, I'll try to come around again if I make more progress on the visual aspects of the project or if we get a couple more thousand words down. 

December 19, 2025: Writing process and my limitations 

These definitely will not be coming out everyday but I just want to talk about how this thing is being written and what things I can do myself. I can write this by myself, I have written things of at least passable quality before and probably will again. I can also draw, it would be concerning if I couldn't seeing that this website hosts my art portfolio. So I can do the character designs, I can do the concept art, and I can make comics if I want to suffer. The main things that are going to hold me back in this process are: my inability to do 3D art (I'm heavily considering using low poly 3D elements in this game), I also can't really animate (this I may force myself to learn since I've been meaning to learn for years), also if this does end up being a "real" video game as opposed to a "fake" one, I can't code. These are all things that are going to conflict with this coming into existence so keep that in mind when reading these logs.

Anyways- this log is being started right after a hard reset on the script. The previous version got to about 10,000 words with long breaks happening every couple thousand words and I lost track of important story elements. So this time around I''m putting extra emphasis on making those story elements unavoidable and up front. Considering I'm much more of a pantser than a plotter this is very very important. The new version of the script as of today is at 2200~ words, the prologue is 100% done and chapter 1 is about a fourth of the way done. The main priority along integrating the new story elements I want to include is making this just exist. So the first time I say the script is done that will be the script will absolutely no editing because if I edited while writing this would never exist. But at that point I will be sure to go fully in on the art and finalizing as many designs as possible. 

Anyways, thats all, 6 days till christmas, I'll probably be makiing just general stead progress on this and personal stuff over the holidays. Have some very happy holidays or else there will be hitmen waiting for you at your home.