Hello, everyone! This month was a little stressful, so I spent a chunk of my time blowing off steam instead of forcing myself to work too much. It doesn’t make for a very lengthy progress report, but it’s better to not try and make a game on fumes. Regardless, things still happened!
Art
One of Diana’s sprites is now fully rendered! Her second pose is also on its way to being fully rendered. $5+ Patrons got to enjoy watching this happen live, and you can too if you purchase access to the VOD or subscribe! Advertisement end.
Diana and Yulia’s sprites have been a real treat to work on; it’s not every day I get to create sprites that have light sources different from the typical direction you see in visual novels. The decision to make them backlit was partly inspired by the sprites in Sakura no Mori † Dreamers, which also feature sprites with an unorthodox light source. I felt it was suitable for the context in which they appear: vlogs where the two girls are facing Rhode, the light flooding in from an open garage door behind them.
The key art was also worked on! If you’ve been keeping up with the public streams, this is a very big piece. Merope and Rhode’s base colors were finished on the day this was written up. There’s a mix of both complicated machinery and elaborate nature in the piece. It’s very ambitious, and I believe I can pull it off, but it will definitely be a bit of a pain along the way.
This concludes this month’s report! I would like to draw more, it’s very relaxing.