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Weekly report 276

Added 2025-08-23 02:08:38 +0000 UTC

Hi everybody.

I hope you're all feeling well and had a great week. Here's a summary of our work:

Chestnut:

Last week, she worked mainly on cutscenes, advancing two multi-step ones and designing and sketching another one, which is one of our book-related cutscenes. Basically, you might have noticed that we like adding books to the game (Rose's potion book, Simmone's fairy tale, etc.), and they each have their own art. There's going to be another book introduced in 0.8, and this one's art will be pretty sexy. Chestnut plans to record the drawing process of this cutscene, which we'll publish next week.

Pistachio:

My work consisted of editing dialogue from the second half of the story's content and posing them. I still haven't played through everything I have done so far, but now that more than half of the content is posed, I can see that some of my initial plans don't work, so I've had to cut some content and add new interactions. What happens in the second half of 0.8's story changes the world around Holly a little, and while similar things have happened in the past and with other characters (say Rose and Abu Gadu, or Gomira's two trips), those usually took the player to new locations that prevented free-roaming. That's not the case in 0.8, and while the world changes temporarily, you can still interact with different characters. That feels nicer, but it has also posed new challenges. Anyway, thinking about them and trying to make sure the feel of the update is right (plus I've found a couple of plot holes that will need fixing) were also some of the things I did last week.

Next week's plan:

Chestnut will continue working on cutscenes. We will, as mentioned earlier, post an art creation video and a spoiler.

I will continue editing and posing dialogues from the second half of Holly's update.

That's all.

Have a wonderful weekend!
Cheers!