magicnuts

Weekly report 259

Added 2025-04-26 00:20:24 +0000 UTC

Hi everybody.

Happy Friday, and I hope you had a great week. Here's a summary of our work since the last report:

Chestnut:

She began work on backgrounds as planned, but changed her drawing subject and returned to sprites when we discussed the topic of running a poll in May. The poll will help us decide the design (and possibly the color) of Holly's new outfit, and it needed her sprite without any clothes, which, in addition to hands, hair, and skin options, and other features, was the focus of her work this week. We posted a video of this here for those interested in seeing Holly's nude sprite.

Pistachio:

Early in the week, I did a word count and noticed I was off by about 10k words. My goal was to have the new content be no more than 35000 words. I was just below 45000. So, trying to fix that was the sole focus of my week. I've had mixed results, cutting several hundred words in some events but then other dialogues end up being a bit longer after the edit -- that's because now that I'm editing, I'm also making changes according to the feedback Chestnut had given me. I'm not done yet, but I expect I will be by early next week, and then I'll do another word count while keeping my fingers crossed that I've at cut at least one or two thousand words. Editing is not as fun as writing or posing, but it has the potential to save us weeks in dev-time if I can cut the fluff early. Note, I'm not cutting content, merely asking myself if various dialogues would benefit from being shorter.

Next week's plan:

Chestnut has done some sketches for Holly's new outfit options for the poll. She doesn't have to work on them next week, per se, but that's an option. She has also started backgrounds that she might return to, depending on what inspires her more and how the designs go.

I plan to finish my edit work and give the results to Chestnut for feedback on the tone and the issues she had raised earlier, while I, myself, check it for code-related bugs and errors I might have accidentally introduced. Then once I'm satisfied, and depending on her feedback, I'll get back to posing.

That's all.

Have a wonderful weekend!
Cheers!