22/01/2022 Patreon Devlog

This Week's Summary:

• Edited 1 Jack CG
• Edited 1 Magnus CG
• Edited 2 Ari CGs
• Edited 1 Lance CG
• Completed 3 Lance CGs
• Completed 1 Magnus CG
• Finished Quill Ch2
• Completed Steam page set up
  • (Page is in review)
• New BG Sketch

The Ramble:

As I continue to move toward completion of the CGs I just notice more and more how some of the early CGs aren't quite matching the style of the current CGs I'm completing. So I keep going back to make small changes to them to bring them into alignment.

Some CGs also had to be fixed due to continuity issues (I changed Magnus' hair colour slightly so his first CG didn't match the sprite completely anymore). And in one case, I noticed I forgot to shade Ari's eyes. LoL. So I had to fix that too.

Unfortunately this week, several of the CGs I edited required me to  also make changes to Morgan's part of the CG which meant the arduous task of recolouring all of Morgan's components and re-saving 26-30 images per CG. Ugh. LoL

I ended up editing 5 already completed CGs earlier in the week, then went on to complete 4 more CGs (3 for Lance, 1 for Magnus)

Lance's CGs are now fully complete and Magnus only has 2 remaining. In fact, those are the last two CGs for the base game. So I'm NEARLY there. 96% of the way there, in fact! (I don't know why I said CGs were 95% complete last week. . .I think they were actually 90%? I don't even know where the number 95% came from. LoL)

I also. . .

Paused CG production to work on a new artwork to use in storefront images for Gilded Shadows. One thing I've been putting off was setting up the Steam "Coming soon" page. Steam is such a pain to set up because it requires the creation of multiple images - all of varying dimensions and types. You have your story images, your community images, your library images, your event images, your broadcast images. And then it's like small capsule, main capsule, header, vertical capsule, background. . .and on and on and on.

And because nearly every image has unique dimensions, you can't necessarily make one image and re-use it. It's really irritating. LoL

Anyway, I did that this week as well.

And finally, I worked on Quill, Ch2 and got that complete.

Lastly, we got one new BG sketch.

Sneak Peeks and Previews:

Not a very spoilery CG so you get the whole thing!

Upcoming Week:

I should finish the remaining two CGs this week. 

My initial assessment was that I'd finish CGs by the end of January and while I was hoping to get them done earlier, it looks like I was originally correct. That said, I didn't take into account all the other things I did this month so I feel like I'm still doing pretty well overall.

I have a few other clean up things I need to do this week as well - some sprite additions (mostly in-game stuff. I have a lot of sprite variations set up but I'm not using them in the game yet) and I have to fix Morgan's age on her profile sheet - things like that.

I will probably also to through all the beta tester suggestions and finally try to push out a new beta version of the game with all the CGs intact. 

That might not be THIS week. But hopefully within the next two.

And hopefully the steam page gets approved this week. So close, everyone. My spreadsheet has us at 98% completion. =OO SO CLOSE.