11/02/2023 Patreon Devlog (Patreon)

Hallo! Time for this weeks' patreon devlog! ╰(*°▽°*)╯

This Week's Summary:

• Finished Phil's Sprite
• Finished Leon's Sprite
• Finished Riley's Sprite
• Finished Elisha's Sprite
• More Yuu story planning

The Ramble:

There isn't too much to report this week either although I did complete an important chunk of work, I only really worked on one thing. Well, two things technically.

I finished all the artwork of the side characters in Reuben's route. He has four supporting characters and two bobs. (Well, those are the characters who needed art. There's also Wynter. And the Endgame characters function in a supporting role in this route as well but of course they all already have sprites).

There's his boss, Phil. Phil originally had a bigger part but that was ultimately cut and replaced with a scene with Reuben. But he still appears several times and has an important role in the story. I didn't have a mental image for Phil for a really long time and since he does only appear in two scenes physically, he really does look like a Generic Man (™).

There are also the characters of Riley, Leon, and Elisha. These three are rogue Espers that Morgan encounters during the story. They're important characters but funnily enough, most of the story is spent talking about them without seeing them.

They only appear physically in three scenes, one of which is really short.

All the characters have had their sprite images saved and imported into the game. They all still need to be fully coded but that's pretty fast work.

Finally, I did a lot of planning and brainstorming for Yuu's route and the new plot. It's slowly starting to take shape as I figure out how to do what I want to do with it while keeping the plot chill.

I have a lot of pieces now and am just trying to put them all together.

Because I'm trying to pace myself with art, the route brainstorming is really what I've been doing between drawing sprites. So I've just been dividing up my time that way this week.

Sneak Peeks:

Phil, the generic man.

And The Trio - Leon, Riley, and Elisha.

Upcoming Week:

This upcoming week I will definitely get the remaining sprites coded - that's probably a couple of hours of work; not even a full day.

Then I will start working on CGs, pulling the references together, plotting out where they're going to be and even drawing them. There are still quite a few small things to get done (coding in the glossary links, the achievements, etc) but the CGs are the next biggest thing.

I also really want to get a cohesive outline for Yuu's revamp pulled together this week if possible.

So I'll just be working on all of that stuff...

That's all for this week. See you next time!

~Esh