Mystic Ville - May 17th 2022 - DevLog

Heyeyeyey, everyone,  how you doin'?

I'm back after a break of 3 weeks in total since the previous release! (I hung out with friends before they move for another year, can't miss it! I hope you'll let me off the hook!)

And of course, we hope you all or most of you enjoyed the full Chapter 1 (You know, can't please everyone).

We received a lot of feedback and most of them said the same thing (Well, not exactly, but they had the same thing in mind.) We'll definitely learn and take notes from it, starting with reducing the wall of texts and adding more illustrations/images.

So, it's time to plan out Chapter 2!

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Story (Script/Dialogues) - 7/21

Cut down the outlines from 27 to 21, reducing the unnecessary dialogues to "debloat" it. (Previous update's feedback says there's too much text involved, so I'll try to reduce it without messing with the pacing.)

I'm still unsure about the story/writing in general, it's that thing I mentioned in Discord before, I legit lost my confidence in writing, or am just generally stuck I guess, but I'll have to work on this sooner or later.

If you have any tips on how to fight this annoying phase, I'll gladly listen!

Art (Backgrounds/CG/Sprite) - 1/20

I know that the last update's trouble was the Art, and now I made a 20 checklist of art, I must be crazy, right?

Now now, hear me out, this time we have 2 artists on board, and 4 of the 20 in the checklist are what I call "Mini-CGs" it's like a simple maybe one object or super closeup or something, it's not even close to a full scene. Won't take as much time, so you could say it's already 1/16 right now.

To be precise, they consist of 7 backgrounds, 3 sprites (full-body & expression set), Rachel's full-body illustration is done, though the expressions are still in the work.

Oh, yeah, 2 more characters will be joining the roster! 

As of now, they will be named Chloe and Allison. 

I'm sure I don't need to tell you which one's Chloe and which one's Allison.

Also, one of the backgrounds:

(This one I'm still not sure about, this is just my practice work, which failed hard xD)

Other than that, there's this Aqua costume/outfit for Misty. (You often mention Aqua, about how similar Misty is to her, so here ya go :p)

Code

Haven't started yet, it's heavily related to backgrounds & sprites.

Posing

Haven't started yet, should be started after the Writing is finished.

Previous Update I worked on both at the same time, it was quite a mess, honestly...

Thank you for reading this week's report! And shout out to all our current and former patrons, this wouldn't be possible without you!

-PervyChoco