Arcanus Ruin Devlog #1 (Patreon)

Hello. I'll update you guys on the progress on *Arcanus Ruin* and what's going on.

Progress is still going on but slowly, however, the story of the game will finally be picking up more than previously. For almost a year, I think, barely any progress was made on the script of the story. I don't write the script, since I'm handling a lot of things with the game already: worldbuilding, story direction, game design, assembling the game itself, and etc... So, a friend of mine was handling the story.

He's a good writer; wrote stuff and gave me ideas of certain things for the game. However, not a lot of progress was made with the script itself for months. We are still stuck in the prologue/opening of the game in story, so we barely had any substance to share with you guys. Another issue was the lack of motivation to write for my game's story and the creative differences with how the direction of the story should go.

So, my friend recently came to me and said he would like to resign as he felt he wasn't doing much in the project. I didn't like it at first but I understood why. So I agreed to let him off with not writing for the main story anymore, but he will still help me with other things like writing the lewd scenes or side stories (If there would be any :sweat_smile:). He pretty much helped me fund parts of the game when I switched to 2D art, which I'm very grateful with. But I've been working more hours at work to help fund the game myself, as he ran into financial issues. I do hope my funding can speed up the process of development and art (Though it's mostly the availability of the artists and how quick they work right now).

Thankfully, I was able to find another writer who is our current team's pixel artist that makes the character sprites for RPGmaker. He has written a sample short story of my characters in a specific scenario for me to see how he writes, which I really like! Thinking of sharing it with you guys.

He already made a lot of progress in rewriting the opening part of the prologue this week, which was written by our first writer over a year ago, but I dislike the opening now with how it just doesn't fit with the story at all. (Like it was just someone rambling about how disgusting males were and the empire holding strong type crap, and just cuts to our protagonist eating with no transition)

Anyways, that is pretty much it with our writer situation. It's taken care of and now I just need to focus on the art and game design aspects of the game itself.

No progress was made with the game design itself, but art has been going smoothly. PHans101 one of our two artists, is busy with commissions from other people, so we don't usually get much art from him. Likely once or twice a month. He does an amazing job translating my models into 2D, which is one of the examples shown here with an enemy unit I've made.

Our other artist, who I found on Fiverr, has done a great job mimicking Han's style and translated it well. So far, he's been doing all of the lewd scenes for our enemy units, with the sketches I'm presenting here.

We've been focusing on fully body character CGs to get an idea of how the character would look like and would appear in the prologue. But, that won't last long as there is just one more left, I think... And after that, I can focus on other artworks to commission like lewd scenes or special CGs story related stuff.

I think that is pretty much it to leave for this dev log. If you have any questions, please let me know in the comments.

OK. See you guys next time!

- Groundage