Gwenlium Journal

Ruins OST (WIP)

Sat, 31 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Another sneak peak of one of the FIRST worlds in Proto:ReCompute.

I will put a lot of emphasis on the piano in my soundtracks as this is my favourite instrument and the best I can play. However I will also include the violin the guitar, vocals and wind instruments too in the final recording.

Me playing Ruins

Proto:ReCompute screenies [1]

Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Lyn talking to Pixi

Just sharing some early development screenshots of the game!

Some mini-dungeon MVP

Skydiving

Enjoying the night!

Sunset

Stormfall, a lightning strike attack of the Memory Blade

Serenity (early OST name)

Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Lately I have been working on the music of my game! I’m sharing here a glimpse of what I was composing; I’m thinking of using this as some of the more calmer and mysterious areas in the world of Proto:ReCompute

How did I compose this? I just sat on the piano, thought of a key (here it’s C minor) and started playing. I usually always start with the left hand for the accompanied piece and then the melody on the right. Then… I just play it 💚.

Me playing Serenity

Piano

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Simple piano pic of mine!

Sharing just a piano pic of mine!

Piano shenanigans

Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

I herewith share some musical experiments. I tend to do that when I want to find something that fits into the language of Proto:ReCompute. Here I experimented while freestyling, which I have been doing for the past 10 years or so (with a total of 15 years of experience).

When I sit at the piano and just ‘shut off’, my emotions drive my hands onto the keys and just…play. I love when I lose myself when playing this beautiful instrument. Do you remember the time when the internet was new and mysterious? Another world entirely? This is exactly what I feel when making music. It’s a dreamy space that you can safely doze off to.

Open video

Practicing guitar

Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Just a few examples of my 1 month practice milestone with my guitar.

The relationship between me an guitars in general have been on/off throughout the years. But lately I discovered the Yamaha Revstar RSS20 in this flashy green colour and fell in love with it immediately. Do you sometimes have the feeling of sensing an emotional connection with an instrument? I have that with my piano and now for this guitar as well which keeps me motivated to play!

Sharing some videos here. As I will compose my own music for my game, I still got to learn lots of things. I got 15 years of piano experience however so applying the music theory I learnt with the piano on the guitar is a piece of cake.

Still, the guitar differs in some areas though. On the piano I’m able to see the notes while playing which is a bit more difficult on the guitar. Also tying connections to the notes strings is far more challenging than just pressing keys that harmonise with each other. It is indeed a different kind of instrument (duh) but in the core yet the same. Oh, standing while playing is MILES more fun than just sitting. I love instruments…

An experimentation of a nice town soundtrack

Another rocking experience

I really like the E minor progression here, might fit for a battle soundtrack

Memory Blade Moveset: Update 1

Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT

A first but very early build of the combat phrases of the Memory Blade.

The Memory Blade is the first weapon the player gets introduced to. Ever played DMC or the 3D Zelda games? Well if you do you’ll feel the familiarity while playing. I took inspiration of the stylish combat animations of The Wind Waker while crossing it with the VFX of the DMC series. The result is snappy! You got your light attack combos, heavy attack combos, variation of these two and an air launcher with its dedicated aerial combo phrases:

The light attack has 5 phrases

Fast anticipation and quick transitions

The heavy attack has 3 phrases

This is much slower but also deals more damage

The variation has 4 phrases

Maybe you can tell which ones are light and heavy attacks?

The aerial has 6 phrases with another heavy attack going back to the ground

I've come to like this one a lot!

The abilities on the right are still WIP and cannot be used yet, but the Memory Blade will have four distinctive abilities that can be cast (and later upgraded via the skill tree) plus a special attack.

Now how does it look like when actually using it to hit enemies? I’ve got some dummies prepped for this demonstration in a video.

You may have noticed that I also built a perfect dodge system! I really liked that in games such as Bayonetta or BotW, so naturally I wanted to build one that fits the moveset of the Memory Blade. You can either light attack counter or heavy attack counter after a perfect dodge. In the future, all the different weapons will have their own set of counters.

Combat Demo 1

Lyn (First Protagonist)

Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Lyn

In Proto: ReCompute, there will be 2 protagonists that you’ll be able to play as and switch on the fly.

The first one I want to introduce is Lyn, a 19 year old CS student starting her summer vacation. Due to some unfortunate turn of events, she spends her vacation inside a computer world. Her name was chosen due to my tendency to overthink things, actually. I wanted to have a simple name after hours of coming up with one. I wanted something with an ‘L’… and she is left handed. Thus the name Lyn was born.

Each protagonist will be able to equip three weapons which also have their own respective colours. Without spoiling the others, the first weapon the player gets introduced to is the Memory Blade with the lightning element. A blade was chosen intentionally to ease the beginning of the game for the player as this weapon plays in a classical DMC sense; light and heavy attacks including abilities. Other weapons will have their own movesets and mechanics however.

Let’s talk about her striking design! The weapon carries the element lightning which is green in this game, thus her outfit conveys this element. Inspiration was taken from 2B from NieR: Automata which I really liked back when I played it the first time; an open airy outfit that is also revealing to some degree, including some tattoos which will play a big role in the HUD later. This was intentional to make her look badass and confident with the blade and how she zippzzz through enemies! The weapon design was inspired by Xenoblade 1’s Monado, mixed with the iconic design of the Master Sword from Zelda, though it has a very computerly design as well to tell the player again that they are in a computer world.

Credit goes to the amazing artist Peanutsbee_lab
Thank you for your help!

Close up

Perspective

Memory Blade

Portrait of me

Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT

A drawing made from my closest friend

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A drawing made from my closest friend

Grand opening

Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Today marks an important day! I finally got to create my devlog and put it live.

I’m very much looking forward to all the things I share with the world here.

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