How's the development going? (Patreon)

Hey guys! This was a slow week, I had to divert my attention for a number of reasons, but I made progress in composing the sets. As I said last week I added the furniture and objects in most of the settings, however I preferred to leave the texturing for a later step.

I want to digress a little bit about this moment in development, it's nothing that satisfies anyone waiting for the finished game, but I want to share it and leave it on record for anyone who's interested.

One thing that bothered me about previous versions of S4H was the lack of artistic quality. I have no art background and no way of telling whether or not my work is attractive beyond my own perception, and realizing that something doesn't feel right is a long way from being able to fix it.

So this time I want to get away from that feeling of unfinished work by maintaining a uniformity in the artistic style of the sets and characters. For the furniture, I chose to use more cartoonish proportions, better matching the characters. For the new textures, I want to better plan the colors and for that I'm going to work the  sets     together with the characters, thinking about the best integration.

In the meantime, I've started setting up the areas and I think it's likely that I'll create navigation across maps, separating each area. The area of the suburb where the main house is located, in addition to the home of Angel's family, is ready.

The college campus and the downtown area, where are Misty's store, Brendon's father's restaurant, and Wanda's studio, among other places, are almost finished.

The area for the Sackrider sisters' house and the house where Brendon's aunt and cousins live is still missing. I thought about making a seaside district, but I haven't decided on that yet.

There will be 14 locations within these four areas. Most of them will be explorable by one of the four protagonists and you will be rewarded with extra content if you want to explore everything.

However, I will allow alternative ways to play the game for those who are not interested in exploring, or even for those who only want to control one of the characters and have no interest in the others. I've been working on these changes for a while now, they're still experimental, I'll come back to that another day.

Well, that's all I have to say for now. I think the sets are getting ready at a good speed, so I hope we can talk about more interesting things soon.

Until then, I thank you all and wish you a great weekend. See you later.