Project Plan October

September was mostly a month to perform a bunch of the remaining setup work for the remainder of the game, this month we are back to closing out milestones. Our two goals for this month:

• Primary: Finish Judgement of Pride and with that close out the content block for fighting the demon generals outside te final dungeon

• Secondary: Finish up the remaining content on lewd books & skills

Otherwise, it's mostly just general progress, giving us the following plan:

Week 1: Some freelancer management to start off the new dev cycle as usual. In particular, I need to prepare some inputs for our mapper & pixel artist. Then it's off to finishing the remaining levels for Judgement of Pride. I expect that I will be able to also start developing the boss battle this week, but even if I finish it, I probably won't deploy it in the prerelease.

The reason for that being that you can kill Roland (again) but this time around at a higher popularity level. This means he can die in the middle of his own quests from the Order. In order to deal with this issue--

Week 2: I will be investing probably most of week 2 into dealing with the resulting quest states, making them playable if possible or making it a failure if necessary. Ideally it will be possible to do Nothing but the Truth even with Roland dead, but it would require some variations at various points.

Week 3: While everything that requires H-CGs in terms of corruption content is done for 1.0, we still have juuust a little bit of lewd content left. In this week I will be tackling the introduction of the remaining lewd books (will be added to the book store in Verdeaux) and lewd skills. There will probably be 2 more lewd skills, one learnable from the books in Verdeaux, and another learnable at the Maid Academy.

Should I finish before the week is over, I would invest the remaining time into regular polish work. I did some work last month to make Nephlune a bit livlier, I would then invest the remaining time to work on the same for Verdeaux. If no time is available, I will just move this to next month.

Week 4: And then finally I plan on closing out the month by progressing the final dungeon by another level.

So much from my side. Then let's look at our freelancers.

RPGMaker Dev

There probably won't be a lot of progress here this month as our assistant developer Trihan will be on vacation until 16th of October and I expect when he's back there will be some bugfixing work waiting for him.

2D Art

Been a couple of months since we looked at the medium term art commission plan so here is the presumably last update for it for 1.0. All remaining 2D assets from the final asset list have been scheduled! Whether we finish them all in time, not sure, but since the current plan is for them to be finished by December, we have 1 month of buffer time to the January release date, which is promising.

This month, art production will focus on closing out the Georgia H-CGs and then it's back to Roya to close out the last missing H-CG there for the Demon-cracy Liliana lewd scene. And then next month we can start working on the assets for the corruption ending.

When we get closer to working down the list, I will be having a discussion with our artist on their exact plans, if they would like to take a vacation, or if they want to immediately keep jumping on to more commission work. Should they want to work more and we have some time left, we can maybe get in 1 or 2 non-H-CGs after all, otherwise I don't think anyone can get mad on them taking a well-deserved break after 3 years of dedicated work on the project.

Pixel Art

Our pixel artist is currently in the process of wrapping up the last bit of work for the Dark Star Knightess pixel character. After that, we will be moving on to the next area of work: Decreasing discrepancies between overworld monster sprites and their in-battle sprites. Mature Spider Queen for example will be getting a proper overworld sprite instead of just reusing the Young Spider Queen sprite. I have created a spreadsheet where I collected all the offenders I had in mind for this:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rNLPBbnkX-kW4zEZDRWVq3y-cSSHpXcz5Xke1ymcVzU/edit?gid=0#gid=0

If there is one I missed, please comment!

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand that's the plan for the month! See you for the next post.