The Yearbook

Devlog

• Dev Log#9 I'm indecisive and this is a hard decision
  June 06, 2026 by RiversideService

  While I have a working game system, I'm still not sure about the theme of the game. My initial goal was to use this game to have the players think about the differences in people based on their backgr... Continue reading

  
• Dev Log#8 A working game system
  June 06, 2026 by RiversideService

  I had the opportunity to test the ENTIRE game in analog format on Monday (because the digital part of the game is future me's problem). I mainly focused on testing player interactions and the transiti... Continue reading

  
• Dev Log #7 Have you become what you wanted to be?
  June 02, 2026 by RiversideService

  This is a summary of the playtest for the character creation phase of the game. Because the theme of the game is solving a murder mystery that happened in the past, I divided the character creation ph... Continue reading

  
• Dev Log #6 What this game is NOT going to be
  May 28, 2026 by RiversideService

  Board Games As Media describes that "The board game isn’t 'complete' until the moment the players begin play and, in doing so, bring the game into being"(pg.81-82). After playing the board game Nigh... Continue reading

  
• Dev Log #5 It's a yearbook
  May 08, 2026 by RiversideService

  It's been a while since I last updated my progress here. So to recap: My thesis project is a hybrid murder mystery role-playing game. Players play as classmates in a primary school reunion. When the d... Continue reading

  
• Dev Log #4 I think I'm getting somewhere
  March 02, 2026 by RiversideService

  The past two weeks have been a struggle as I tried to decide which story my game should be based on, since it will be heavily narrative dependent. In this dev log, I will talk about the prototype I cr... Continue reading

  
• Dev Log #3 In the name of research
  February 14, 2026 by RiversideService

  Howdy friends! In the past few weeks, I did a lot of things in the name of research (which mostly means playing games). Many good ideas have come to me, but I still need to test them out to see if the... Continue reading

  
• Dev Log#2 Change of plan
  February 08, 2026 by RiversideService

  Okay, so my original plan was a murder mystery game with similar mechanics of looking for evidence and using it against others in the trial to point out the culprit, in combination with building stats... Continue reading

  
• Dev Log #1 How it started
  January 22, 2026 by RiversideService

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  First dev log for the thesis project! For this project, I want to make a video game (not sure what it is yet), but the narrative would definitely be a big part of the game. From January to March is th... Continue reading