The Retrospection Of Tomorrow

Devlog

• TROT Act 2 is OUT! Finally!
  March 06, 2025 by Cherish Fan

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  Hi everyone! Yes, Act 2 is finally here—after a whole year of development! 🎉 The Chinese version was actually finished in December 2024, but with all the translation and proofreading for the Engl... Continue reading

  
• TROT Steam and Pre-Launch KS Page Live!
  February 10, 2025 by Cherish Fan

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  Hi everyone, happy February! Exciting News Before Act 2’s Release TROT’s Steam Page is Live! 🎉 Steam has officially approved the store page, and I’ll be launching a demo there soon (contain A... Continue reading

  
• TROT: 2025 Plans
  January 05, 2025 by Cherish Fan

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  Amazing art by arbitrarydelight on Tumblr as my Secret Santa for 2024! 🎨✨ Happy New Year, everyone! 🎉 I’m excited to use this dev log to share my major plans for 2025 and give you a glimpse... Continue reading

  
• Act 1's Remake Is Out!
  December 19, 2024 by Cherish Fan

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  What's in this remake? - Act 1's story content has been adjusted slightly, but the overall story remains the same. - The sanity check has been removed. While presenting evidence or profiles, you can n... Continue reading

  
• November | Act 1 Remake Coming In December~
  December 01, 2024 by Cherish Fan

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  Guess what? I finished all the major artwork for Act 2 in November! Plus, I reworked Act 1 quite a bit—redid all the translations, removed some lines, reorganized the game structure, and got rid of... Continue reading

  
• October | CG Art Coming Soon!
  November 01, 2024 by Cherish Fan

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  Hello everyone, Cherish here! I spent all of October for coding Act 2, and only started on the artwork yesterday. I initially thought coding&scripting would take two weeks, but it turned into a whole... Continue reading

  
• September | Another Step Closer To Act 2's Release!
  October 02, 2024 by Cherish Fan

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  September Progress: Finished all new BG art All new NPC sprites DONE Act 2 script import and plot adjustment Hendrix, Edmund, Leon, Noah and all other NPC's expressions imported Plans for October: Tes... Continue reading

  
• August | Happy 1st Anniversary! 🎉
  August 31, 2024 by Cherish Fan

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  August Progress: Completed 85% of the background images Finished all CG drafts Imported all currently available art assets Completed 2/5 of the programming for Act 2 Finished the TROT anniversary illu... Continue reading

  
• July | NEW SPRITES & Release Plan for the Rest of 2024
  August 02, 2024 by Cherish Fan

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  July Progress: Finished Act 2 story script Completed revisions for Act 1 plot New sprites artwork Updated sprites (more clothes, better art) Revised outline for Act 3 Finalized art assets list for Act... Continue reading

  
• June | Act 2 Script 1.0 Finished + New Sprite Tools
  June 29, 2024 by Cherish Fan

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  I've made good progress this month! I successfully finished Noah's route by the end of June XDDDD June Progress: Completed the first draft of Chapter 7 (Week 23) Completed the first draft of Chapter 8... Continue reading

  
• May | Progress Update and Art Share
  May 30, 2024 by Cherish Fan

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  Wooo nearly half way through 2024! I returned to my home country in May to visit my parents for two weeks, and it was a nice break! However, other things happening in my life slightly impacted my writ... Continue reading

  
• April | Finished Scripting for Hendrix & Edmund's Routes 🎉
  May 01, 2024 by Cherish Fan

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  Hello everyone! I didn't expect to actually stick to my plan this month! OMG..._(:з」∠)_ Anyway, the progress in April was pretty good - besides revising Chapter 5, I also successfully finished th... Continue reading

  
• March | Back To Work
  April 02, 2024 by Cherish Fan

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  Hello everyone! I got back to work on TROT back in March (as promised), and this is my first dev log in 2024! ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)✧ My current plan is to finish all the writing in one go (including Act... Continue reading

  
• Dec | Postmortem & 2024 Dev Plans
  December 15, 2023 by Cherish Fan

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  Hello everyone, TROT has been released for a week now -- and in this dev log (very likely the last one for this year), I want to talk about my journey over the past few months and my 2024 development... Continue reading

  
• Act 1 now released!!!
  December 08, 2023 by Cherish Fan

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  Act 1 of Retrospection Of Tomorrow - Full Version is now available on itch.io! P.S. A huge thanks to everyone who has donated, commented, rated this game so far!!! Have fun playing it and let me know... Continue reading

  
• Dec | 7 Days Till Act 1 Release!
  December 01, 2023 by Cherish Fan

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  Hello everyone, happy December～! This also means that we are getting closer to the release date... to be precise, there are only 7 DAYS left until the ACT 1 RELEASE! Yes, the release date is 2023, D... Continue reading

  
• Nov | CG Art Sneak Peak
  November 17, 2023 by Cherish Fan

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  Hello~ It's another dev log! November is already halfway through, and I've had a pretty crazy two weeks... because I tried to draw 22 full CGs and 18 small CGs in just a week and a half... and I did i... Continue reading

  
• Nov | Sneak Peeks, Art Updates & Progress Report
  November 03, 2023 by Cherish Fan

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  Hello everyone, happy November! After working hard in October, I finally finished writing chapters 2&3! Thank goodness!!!! YEAH THE SCRIPTING IS DONE!!!!!!!ꉂ(ˊᗜˋ*) In addition, even though life... Continue reading

  
• Oct｜Progress Update
  October 20, 2023 by Cherish Fan

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  Hello!!! It's been a really super busy week for my day-work after my 2 week vacation, so development has slowed down a bit. The draft of Chapter 2 is completely done, it's in the trash draft form now... Continue reading

  
• Sep｜Monthly Round Up
  September 30, 2023 by Cherish Fan

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  Hello everyone! Two weeks have flown by in the blink of an eye...And I am still continuing working non-stop ahahaha~ During these two weeks, I completed Chap 2&3's 2nd draft revisions. I found the beg... Continue reading

  
• Sep | 1st Dev Log & Character Design Share-Out
  September 16, 2023 by Cherish Fan

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  Hey everyone! So, September's been all about hammering out the Chap 2&3. I figured I'd drop an update every 2 weeks to keep track of my progress so I can feel encouraged(???). -- But hey, who decided... Continue reading

  
• Dev Plans & Thank you for 500+ downloads!
  September 04, 2023 by Cherish Fan

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  Hello everyone! First, I want to thank everyone who has downloaded my game and provided feedback. The game now has 500+ downloads, which is beyond my expectations. I've received many comments that rea... Continue reading

  
• Thank you for 100 downloads!
  August 26, 2023 by Cherish Fan

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  Hi there! I'm thrilled to share that within just 1.5 days of going live, the demo has already reached 100 downloads! I'm currently making some small updates to the demo and have just finished drafting... Continue reading

  
• The first DEMO for TROT is live now!
  August 25, 2023 by Cherish Fan#DevLogs

  I can't believe I actually created this demo! TROT is a visual novel I've been working on for about a year or two. I've finished outlining the story, and now I'm really excited because it means I'm on... Continue reading