Weekly report 45

Hi everybody.

I hope you are all doing well and are ready for the weekend. Here's a summary of what we did last week:

Chestnut:

She worked on several more backgrounds, doing more sketches, and designing and drawing the final result. She also started working on Lana's sprite (her hair and a few facial expressions) and finished one of the cutscenes from the first event of the release (involving Lana doing something sexy in a back yard).

Pistachio:

I finished the story's structure, and although there are one or two events that I'm not too happy with and will probably change later, I think the base is good enough to move on to writing and come back and modify it once we have the first draft. I also did other coding tasks like the first version of the hints for 0.5 and new bag items. I have barely begun the writing tasks, but I'm glad that I could start them this week.

Next week's plan:

Chestnut will continue working on the backgrounds and cutscenes. Right now, we're doing the first event in the release, and she's constantly alternating between different types of artworks needed for it. For the next week, she wants to move on to the events that introduce Simmone.

I will spend the whole week trying to advance as many writing tasks as possible. Ideally, I can have the first draft ready by the end of this month, but it's hard to plan these things as some scenes prove trickier to write than others (and vice versa).

Looking for a sketch artist:

As you probably know, 2D artworks take an incredible amount of time to design and create, and in order to speed things up, we want to test and see if we can find talented sketch artists to help Chestnut with these tasks.

We're going to post announcements on our Discord server (and perhaps on Reddit and other social media) asking for sketch artists to send Chestnut their portfolio together with a clean sketch of the market.

A few points:

• We are only looking for a sketch artist producing clean and detailed sketches (no colors).
• The sketches will be for the interior and exterior of buildings and no sprites or cutscenes.
• We're not looking to hire anyone or add anyone to our team; this will be a commission only.
• If we end up finding a suitable artist, Chestnut will make sure that all of the new artworks have the same style and feel of what is already in the game.
• This is a test to see if commissioning someone speeds up the art creation process or Chestnut ends up spending more time correcting and coordinating.

Anyway, we thought that you guys should know this before we publicly announce it. So let us know what you think and if you know a sketch artist who might be interested, send them to our Discord server, where we will soon announce this job.

Hope you have a great weekend.
Cheers