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Weekly report 162

Hi, everybody.

I hope you've had a great week. Here's what we have worked on since our last report:

Chestnut:

Chestnut dedicated her week to a very complex background with interactable objects that is twice as wide as our other backgrounds. The extra width is so that we can also use it as a cutscene ...

Weekly report 161

Hi, everybody.

I hope you're all doing well and have had a fantastic week. Here's a summary of our progress:

Chestnut:

Last week, Chestnut completed four cutscenes; three from the first quest and one from the second quest. I have used placeholder art for the cutscenes corresponding to Gomira's first ...

Video - 0.7 achievements

Hi, everybody.

Chestnut has finished the achievement art for the 0.7 update -- there will be five -- and we'd like to share a video from the creation of two of them. This video is at x5 speed, and I hope you enjoy it.

Cheers

Weekly report 160

Hi, everybody.

I hope you've had a good week and are ready to enjoy your weekend. Chestnut and I have been busy, and here's a summary of our work:

Chestnut worked primarily on new backgrounds, finishing one and advancing another one. She also did some work on a cutscene and prepared the buttons needed for another.

I advanced a ...

Weekly report 159

Hi, everybody.

I hope you're all doing well. Here's a summary of what we have done since the last report:

Chestnut:

She finished the last sprite we were missing for 0.7, and although it still needs facial expressions and hands/gestures, it's good to see the design aspect completed. In addition, she w...

Weekly report 158

Hi, everybody. 

I hope you're all doing well. 

Last week, we started a poll to determine which towns and World locations people are most eager to see, and although we're not going to post the results as this poll doesn...

Weekly report 157

Hi, everybody.

First of all, if you haven't checked it out yet, we posted a poll today to find out what World locations our patrons are more interested in seeing. Since this poll will not directly determine future updates' content, al...

Poll - World Locations

Hi, everybody.

With each update, we make the World of our game a little bigger, and although that usually takes the form of new background locations, we also have other towns and cities on the World map to unlock gradually. Although what will be added depends on the character we're working on, we're curious to learn what our patrons like t...

Weekly report 156

Hi, everybody.

I hope you're all doing well. Here's a summary of our work since the last report:

Chestnut:

She finished the looping artwork and then spent two days working on various images for cutscenes that she had already started -- I posted a 2023-05-05 21:53:00 +0000 UTC View Post

Video - airing it

Hi, everybody.

Here's a video (at x4 speed) from one of the images seen rather early in Gomira's story. I won't say more because I don't want to spoil the event, but I hope you like the cutscene.

Weekly report 155

Hi, everybody.

I hope you're all doing well and are looking forward to your weekend. First of all, I want to thank all of you who left comments on the last week's report, urging us to not neglect our health and continue to take Sundays off. I just want to say that we will go ahead with our plan of working 7 days a week, but I can assure yo...

Weekly report 154

Hi, everybody.

I hope you're all doing well. Before outlining our work since the last report, we do have a small announcement:

We're aware that people are eager to play the 0.7 content, and we wish to see this release completed as soon as possible too. So to speed up the development, we have decided to stop taking Sundays off, starti...

Weekly report 153

Hi, everybody.

I hope you've had a good week and are ready for a relaxing weekend. Here's a summary of the work we've done since our last report:

Chestnut:

Chestnut focused on two cutscenes, both of which featured Gomira in the process of performing different actions. She recorded the creation proces...

Video - Gomira's chest

Hi, everybody.

In this video, you see Chestnut drawing an image from an earlier cutscene in the update showing Gomira lifting a heavy object. I have sped the video up to x5, and I hope you enjoy it.

Weekly report 152

Hi, everybody.

I hope you've had a good week. Here's what we did:

Chestnut:

She worked on two unfinished backgrounds advancing quite a bit, and also did two images from a large cutscene. The images were pretty sexy, and we did consider sharing them as spoilers but decided against it since they sort o...

Weekly report 151

Hi, everybody.

Hope you're all doing well. Here's a summary of our work this week:

Chestnut:

She worked on cutscenes for one of Gomira's first quest's events, and although she had initially planned to finish a background, she decided to instead spend the rest of her time on sprite tasks (which was ve...

Weekly report 150

Hi, everybody.

I hope you're all doing well. Here's a summary of our work this week:

Chestnut:

She has taken many notes on visual improvements of the currently posed events and spent a day working on them. Additionally, she worked on new cutscenes she had already storyboarded and did adornments for t...

Video - a new painting

Hi, everybody.

In most of our updates we have had paintings displayed around the world -- usually slightly more NSFW versions of famous works -- and for the 0.7 release, too, we're going to have one such artwork. This one, though, is not based on any famous painting and is designed by Chestnut herself. Please note that due to its location,...

Weekly report 149

Hi, everybody.

I hope you're all doing well. Here's a summary of what we did this week:

Our work consisted of two parts, doing the tasks we had set for ourselves and testing a series of events from Gomira's first quest following the intro, comprising about an hour and a half of our playtime.

Regarding the base work, Chestnut co...

Weekly report 148

Hi, everybody.

I'm happy to start this report by saying that we've had a very good week workwise: I've been helping Chestnut with the kids, and so she has been able to advance several of her tasks. Of course, there's a lot to improve, but overall it's great to gradually get back to the work schedule that we're familiar with.

Here's a...

Video - the other side of Gomira

Hi, everybody.

As we mentioned in the last report, Chestnut has been working on sprites, and one of the additions that were on her to-do list was the back view of Gomira's sprite, something that we can use in both cutscenes and double-sprites. In the video posted here, you can see the creation of this sprite addition. Please note that this...

Weekly report 147

Hi, everybody.

I hope your week has been a good one. Here's a summary of our work:

Chestnut finished her art of the backgrounds and wanted to do more, but she was kept incredibly busy with the baby and the housework. On the plus side, I visited the hospital today and was told that the x-ray images show that the bone is healing well a...

Weekly report 146

Hi, everybody.

Hope you're all doing well. Here's a summary of our work last week:

Chestnut:

Last week, Chestnut focused primarily on backgrounds, in particular buttons and variation artworks. By background variations, we mean elements that change depending on the quest/time of the day but which we cannot neces...

Weekly report 145

Hi, everybody.

I hope you've had a good week and have plans for a great weekend. Here's a summary of our work last week:

Chestnut did some work on the cutscene she had started last week, and although she hasn't finished it yet, it has taken shape, and many of its elements are in place. She also started coloring one of the new backgro...

Video - the bed in the kitchen

Hi, everyone.

Here's a video showing a bed located in the kitchen of the Old Capital's inn. The original sketch of this artwork was done by Santa Klaus, and you see Chestnut coloring it here.

This video is at x7 speed and I hope you enjoy it.

Weekly report 144

Hi, everybody.

I hope you're all doing well and are ready to enjoy your weekend. We're doing good, improving every day, and although some days are better than others, we're advancing and slowly getting back on track.

Chestnut was still busy this week (something that can't be helped at least until the first half of March), but she wor...

Video - wolves

Hi, everybody.

Here's a video showing the creation of an artwork that will appear in one of the new backgrounds during an early event in the update. The video is at x8 speed, and I hope you enjoy it.

Cheers

Weekly report 143

Hi, everybody.

I hope you're all doing well. Many of you left comments on the last week's report, and every single one of them contained words of support and encouragement; thank you from the bottom of my heart. I'm much better than how I was last week and have been careful to follow all medical instructions, including complete rest. Fortu...

Weekly report 142

Hi, everybody.

We couldn't do much work last week because of my health situation, and I'm going to explain the whole thing, but I must preface it with an apology because I feel like these weekly reports --which are meant to summarize our work-- have turned into my weekly health reports, but since you support us to work on the development o...

Weekly report 141

Hi, everybody!

First of all, thank you to all of you who left comments on our last report or sent us messages on Discord expressing your support and encouragement. It was a tough week, but it's over. I'm back home --was discharged on Monday-- and am recovering rapidly -- just have to get used to crutches again and help Chestnut with the ki...