Build 3 Thoughts

Howdy, friends. 

Sorry for the delay with this log. I've been meaning to write one for a while now, but one thing or another kept coming up. 

First, I want to quickly update everyone on where we are right now. The work on build 4 (Mnesis route) is well underway. I am hoping that the art assets and editing process will be both done by the weekend of March 12-13th, and I will upload the build for patrons then. If not, it'll definitely be the week after that. The build after (Fang route) will likely take less time, a month or so, and I'm hoping to release the patron build for that at the same time as the Mnesis update goes public. 

With that out of the way - Build 3. It was the most challenging build to make so far, both from a writing standpoint and in terms of art. Swaggy deserves many thanks for putting up with me, given how many revisions we had to make to the assets, especially Nick's armor. Settling on the final design was not easy, but I'm very happy with what we came up with in the end. 

While I had written a lot of the script a long time ago, editing it into a proper shape and adding new scenes was not easy. I wanted to get all the emotions in every scene just right. It was also important to me to showcase a bit more of Nick's personality. Making an interesting protagonist has been one of the goals for this project, and while I'm not sure if I've been successful so far, I hope to get there with future updates. 

Of course, you all know that the public version of the build had some extra content that wasn't there in the build I uploaded for you guys. The reason for that was the fact that I really struggled with the scene where Nick reads the information from the tablet. I didn't want it to be too heavy on exposition, and trying to come up with ways to convey some fun worldbuilding in an unobtrusive manner wasn't easy, but I thiiink it worked out in the end. It'll probably be even better if we get the tablet to be interactive, but that's a goal for the future. 

I hope you all enjoyed seeing Nick's portrait, the CGs, and all the new sprites. Again, Swaggy is incredible for putting in so much work into this update. 

With that, I'll take a moment to thank you all for supporting us. The patreon has grown quite a bit since we launched, and I'm very grateful to have these extra resources to put into the project. Really, thank you! 

See you all soon with new content!