23/08/2026 (English)

An eroge visual novel and the CDs that followed

Mors Blade was the highlight of my summer. I will write a longer blogpost on it (maybe, at some point in the future) showing all the work that went into it.

It's a lot of first things: first full-length visual novel (over 80k words), first time I draw and ink all the art for a game, first time using photo backgrounds, first time writing a transmasc character, first time making a game with optional H-content... a lot of first times.

Yesterday, though, I decided to step up the number of "first times" and I ordered a limited print run of this game - in 10 CDs at a local store.

The store was a time capsule of an era long gone: some of the PCs were still running Windows 7 and my CMYK JPG files exported from Krita didn't work with the early 00s program that made CD labels – forcing the owner to take a screenshot of my art with Snipping Tool.

Overall, though, it was worth it and now I have 10 physical copies of my game in hand. I don't think I could be happier even if I wanted.