Weekly report 91

Hi, everybody.

I hope you're all feeling well and have had a productive week.

A few announcements before the report:

• Chestnut's birthday is around the corner, and we'll be taking this Sunday off to celebrate it with our families.
• I have refunded all of you who joined toward the end of Jan and renewed your sub for Feb. If I've missed you, please send me a message as soon as possible.
• [SPOILER - POLL RESULTS] The poll determining the next extra location to be added to the game is concluded, and it seems like a lot of you want to meet Poppy's and Penny's melons, and so the Twins' will be the next extra location we'll add to the game. I will publish a post tomorrow showing detailed poll results. Note: we don't plan to add Poppy's and Penny's characters yet, and it's only their house that will be done next (in 0.6, if there's time, otherwise in 0.7).

Now the report:

Chestnut:

She has been working on cutscenes and backgrounds, finishing new locations, and advancing work on several multi-artwork events. You can see the video (short, extended) of her creating a raven for an event, and we also posted a spoiler from a location that's completely different from every other background we've done so far (from Rose's third quest).

Pistachio:

I worked entirely on Rose's second quest, changing a lot of the writing in the process, and -- as is usually the case -- also modified the events slightly to make them feel better. I think the first and the second quests feel pretty good overall, but I plan to prepare them for testing by Chestnut to see what she thinks of the latest additions.

What's next:

Chestnut will test Rose's second quest and give me feedback (as well as take note of changes and additions to the art as the result of playing the actual game). Then she will focus on doing more cutscenes and perhaps a few hand expressions that I need for posing (I have used placeholder art).

Once I have prepared the game for testing, I will shift my focus to Rose's final quest. The third quest is really a lot less a quest on its own and more the culmination of the events that start in Rose's intro, so getting it right will be tricky, and I will spend a few days going through everything and making sure that the text makes sense (given all the changes) and -- more importantly -- feels like a satisfactory conclusion to the whole update, before starting with the posing tasks. It should be fun.

That's all.

Have a great weekend.
Cheers