magicnuts

Weekly report 130

Added 2022-11-04 23:42:40 +0000 UTC

Hi, everybody.

Before the weekly report, I want to announce the winner of the poll determining the appearance of one of 0.7's new characters, Mei, which was concluded just a few minutes ago. Here is a reminder of the options:

As you see, the combination of the third dress and the fifth hairstyle was the clear winner, being selected the most in both Best Friend and Close Friend versions of the poll.

And so, Mei's final look will be thus:

A few points:

Depending on her content, she may have other outfits and hairstyles, but what the poll determined will be her base design.
We may change the dress's color (but not its design) once we've added the sprite to the game.

Now the report:

Chestnut:

She has been working mostly on cutscenes, designing and drawing several action-packed scenes that involve a lot of motion, and although a bit more time-consuming to get right, match the story, and I think you will enjoy them. She did record a video from one of those images, but I just haven't had the time to edit and prepare it yet (I'll do it tomorrow).

Pistachio:

I have been writing and rewriting dialogues from Gomira's second quest. I did have to make some changes to the original plan for one of the crucial scenes in the update, but I think I've gotten it now. This is a normal part of the process; you always plan some scenes but change them once you start writing the first draft -- I'm sure I will be changing things even more once I start editing and posing. Overall, I believe the story will be fun. It will surely be somewhat different from everything else we have done. In our previous updates, we have focused mainly on resolving problems; this one is primarily about achieving "wants", and overcoming obstacles and difficulties the MC and Gomira face in the course of that. Anyway, that's what I've been working on, and I'm getting a better sense of the two quests as a whole now that a lot of it is written.

Next week's plan:

I'm going to continue to write dialogues, and Chestnut will work on cutscenes and possibly finish Mei's sprite now that we have her design.

That's all.

Have a great weekend.
Cheers