Why I created TheDiary.games? (Devlog)
Aug 26, 2025
My super-niche dream is to create educational diary games tailored to my favourite role models and their works.
Next to listening to the DOAC podcast from steven, i followed this path.
Devlog:
August:
August 2025 - Created a tool for myself for experience diaries to drive my focus to daily sense experiences
August 2025 - Idea for multiple courses and initial setup of the website with the domain
August 2025 - Adjusted the prototype i've built for myself earlier with a course structure, feedback input and simple webchart stats display
August 2025 - Website Design & SEO with Rive Webchart Animation and Screen Designs
August 2025 - Added Rive Webchart System (history stats + new stats)
August 2025 - Added SEO and Blogpost improvements
August 2025 - Fast login to favourite course, PWA app stuff for chrome install and image resolutions, QuickGuide to install app
August 2025 - Added Display of enrolled users
August 2025 - Fixed an important problem with the databinding to the rive webchart. The results were actually correct, the display of it through the labeling gone wrong; Added conversation starter question; implemented per-course streaks, unlock flags, XP-based story drops, and Rive win moments into the diariy flow
August 2025 - As im not the marketer anyways, i'm asking myself the question what i want to do with this? As DOAC is one of my fav. podcasts and i like to make diary games for inspiring personalities, i decided to give me a 90 Day challenge to build this. From here i start rebranding to DOAC.GAMES
Adjusting blogposts / WebScreens & RiveChart
August 2025 - Mind off
August 2025 - DevOps with new Angular Version Setup & Deployment Pipeline & removing trash
August 2025 - App subdomain linking to app.thediary.games (Nginx setup / SSL); Updated Framer Page with updated Blogposts, SEO with FAQ & Blog Schema (JSON-LD)
August 2025 - Collected Feedback, ppl said im risky and i need to work on the upfront description when somebody just clicks try 4 free - they dont know what its about if they dont read landingpage. Updated that linking landingpage on app.thediary.games with correct section ; Nickname login; UI fixes for course overview, insta-login Flow fixes; fixed input bar fix; button border radius fix; improved feedback prompt to first reinforce a detail and second give some additional thoughts to further push with that.
August 2025 - the base diary pwa is ready - now i work on the diarys, so they are not boring, also i picked up the learnings of steven which he had in the last year, i picked one to create a story out of it whch will be revealed to the player while playing the diaries. my thought now: i will later put them into 1-3 month seasons (this functions as scarcity element to do them and collect them + give higher meaning to the game); Updated the website accordingly + added ticker with new tracks
August 2025 - make the web-grid rive animation on the website with a given track -> the unexpected move with references to my current challenge aproach + add short popping-up diary entries to show the influence the stats to really visualize the concept; Add season 1 Blog Article
August 2025 - rive web-grid animation (diary-popup-writing with actual writing feeling and better web-alignment) - Failed. Try again; Rive Animations Export File-Size Optimization (!Duplicate FONT Error makes big file sizes!)
Add Streak preview on course section. Fixed AI - LLM problem with payment & model for api call
September
Sepbember 2025 - Added height size of input bar; Story Ideation for Season I learning of steven (aura running in front of steven); Added course-tailored hints
September 2025 - Add a better streak logic so its based on a day and check the specific datetimes for different regions aka, store in one timezone + calculate offset; Fixed: Intuitive Streak Display on course page and in course; 10x ideation - What is the real value of diary writing and how to translate it to a no-brainer solution.
September 2025 - Add seo page templates for each track.
September 2025 - Added exemplary story to unlock (not yet to unlock but always shown) - i generated it with https://gemini.google.com/gem/storybook/ -> exported it to pdf -> created images from pdf -> uploaded it in season-one folder
September 2025 - Testing
September 2025 - Testing / Networking
September 2025 - Story Ideation
September 2025 - Story Ideation
September 2025 - Created a Meta prompt; Story thrown away not serving the purpose.
September 2025 - Big changes prompt is hard
September 2025 - Redesigning and throwing away uneccessary steps for the new goal to get the word out!
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