See me after class

Hello everyone!  Today's Monday update will be a little shorter than normal, as life has been pretty busy, so there's not quite as much to report with new images.  The good news though is that I have quite a bit to show on Wednesday with maps and sprites, which I'm now making short work of.  

I'm onto Miss Paris's end-of-day scenes - above, we can see the initial scene in which a denuded Missy stands humiliated while the teacher berates her.  I've always loved this sequence, especially the idea of the girl being forced to stand naked and exposed for a (quite literal) dressing down.

Here it is from the other side.  The classroom is one of the more difficult sets to light, as the glare from the floor and desks, plus the positioning of the windows can make it tricky.  Nonetheless, I think this is a significant improvement on the original:

It also helps that a while back, I repositioned Missy's necklace so that it's no longer floating above her shoulders.  Didn't notice that?  I mean it is the only thing she's wearing!

The span.. um.. correction (bloody censors) scene has been reworked.  This will be happening with all of the early game ones eventually, as the semi-animated technique that I developed in 0.3 is far superior (I think, anyway,) to the still images from 0.1 and 0.2.  So now we can watch our girl jump as each blow lands rather than just see the same picture from multiple angles!

Ooooh, you can almost feel it, can't you? Poor Missy, wear the right undies next time!

Lastly, a word on the timescale of the remaster.  You have all been extremely patient, and I'm aware that I said it would be "at least a month" just over 2 months ago.  So I want to put something playable into your hands sooner rather than later, even if there's still work to do on it.  So here's the plan now.  Feel free to give me your thoughts in the comments section, on Discord, or by PM if you feel more comfortable that way.

After 2 months of work, I am now most of the way through the maps and code.  Since Wednesday, when I put up the public report, I've finished work on Lady Gardens and am almost through the Red Light District, which will leave only the park, the hospital, the financial district and the slaver base to go.  Ditto, the sprites, which are now about half done, and the custom tiles which are almost complete, while the face sets are still fairly far back, but won't take long anyway.

Only the re-renders, at 20% complete, are letting the side down.  This is due to the fact that I made the job bigger by improving the older ones as I went.  I don't believe it's reasonable to expect you to wait while I do the same with the remaining 80%, so what is going to happen instead is that the majority will simply be re-rendered as-is for the time being, and the remastering will be completed more slowly over the course of the next several updates.

By doing this, I can do the work I want to do on the renders while also releasing new content on the usual timescale.

So it's now my goal to have the patron test build of Missy MZ 0.4 out by the end of June.  I'll shift my focus to making this happen, but make sure I still have some spicy re-renders to show along the way!

Trinian