Devlog #4 January 2024

Well, it's now been a week since V0.07 launched, so it's time to check in with an update on what I'm working on!

First of all let's talk about the GUI overhaul for Renpy. This has been a point of great frustration for me. I've now been ghosted by two separate artists who said they would make a rough sketch of the assets I needed and get back to me, only to never do so and not answer my follow up messages. I have now contacted a third vendor but this means I have no idea when it will be getting finished.

What I can control for this next update is sound! I am currently in the process of reviewing, downloading and implementing both background music and more sound effects for the game! These will likely not be perfect in every scenario as they are merely placeholders. Eventually I will have music custom designed for the game but we're not at that point quite yet.

The most exciting thing for the coming update (for me at least) is the commission of a custom developer animation to be shown during the games start sequence! This is already in the works and should be completed on time for the February update! 

I'm also working on tweaking some of the early game lore dumps to feel a little more organic and interactive.

For art in this coming update we'll have a few things:

-A new expression for Lilly's sprite: "Stern"

-New character sprites "Eirronth" a draconid male, works as freelance muscle/security

-New character sprites "Peach" a female canid owns the body mods shop

-New character sprites "Juniper" a female human works alongside Peach

-Images for the mysterious medallions

-New sex scene with Kara at the bar (femdom content)

-Working on the beginnings of the Nadir virtual intelligence menu which will function like a "help" menu. Unsure if this will be completed by February as it is low on the priority list.

Finally, the new story content for this update will be very limited with the main expansion being around Karas scene at the Serpent's Lair. The three characters getting new sprites added will get introduced but that will be the limit of the story expansion since I won't have sprites for the following scenes.

In conclusion, the next update is going to be a lot of polishing of what is already in the game along with the new scene of course. I hope you love it regardless, and we're rapidly barreling towards the intros conclusion when the core game-play loop will get introduced!

As of this moment I believe the intro will wrap up with the March update. We have skipped over A LOT of things art wise in order to get there more quickly which will mean that after the march update we will need at least two months to catch up on things we skipped and get new content ready for the first supporter only build of the game. I could see a world where we need three months but if that is the case I will make sure I have something for everyone to enjoy in the meantime!