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Weekly Update (09/05/2022)

Added 2022-09-06 04:57:00 +0000 UTC

Hey everybody, time for another update post.

This week, we spent our time in the breaks between sprite work to continue improving our main menu. Eventually, we would love for it to display a random unique drawing of one of the girls each time you open the game. For now, our artist is working on a cute drawing of Lulu for this! It isn't complete yet, but we have decided on a layout for the menu and even designed a new logo for our game. Here it is, let us know your thoughts!

If you have any pose suggestions for the other girls on the main menu splash arts, let us know! It would be pretty cool to have one for each girl eventually. Beyond that, as the last paragraph suggested at the start, we've been doing more glorious sprite work. Tons - and I mean *tons* - of backgrounds and even a few foregrounds were made for this update to try to make the academy and its surroundings feel more complete and real. Unfortunately we didn't think to keep track of the numbers there, but we'll be sure to count stuff like that in the future to give everyone a better idea of where our efforts are going.

Since there's not much new art to show off, here's the completed Maeve scene that we teased last week:

And that's about it! We're really excited for this update to finally come out for everyone. The new sprite system we're using has really made the characters so much more expressive! We think it has done wonders for the feel of the game and can't wait for everyone else to get to enjoy it. Thank you, everybody, for your support! We'll see you next week, hopefully with an ETA for the release!