Cheeky bi-Weekly # 21 - New posting format! | Leena Revamp Animatics and SFX done | Catch up in progress | Elf Mages sketch comic (Patreon)
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Hey Babes!
Before we move on to this week's news. We have news about the Cheeky Weeklies themselves! You may have noticed the name of this one is different than the usual.
If you want to read our reasoning just continue reading, however if you want to see what's changing, skip until you see the big text (but then continue reading because we have more news!)Let us recollect for a moment what posting in our Patreon has been like for a while.
Monthly DevlogsUp until February we'd been focusing on monthly devlogs, updating everyone about a whole month's worth of work on the game. While this format is pretty excellent to show off big changes to the game, it would put too much weight on them, forcing us to work hard on making them big and flashy. This requires a lot of time and puts a lot of pressure into making the presentation in a way that felt compelling to supporters.
Cheeky WeekliesOn the other hand, it has now been around half a year of doing Cheeky Weeklies. Every week, we spend some time formatting news of the week in a easily digestible format. This format is very laid off and fun to do! We then leave devlogs for when we feel we have enough to share with everyone. This actually makes it easier to make the devlogs because by the time we are ready to share, we have months worth of progress to share.However, the problem with posting weekly is that we encounter moments where we don't have much more to say other than "work keeps happening to our game", and in fact moments like that could be detrimental, since creating these takes around an hour or so of work that could be better spent on game development.
So here is where we think we might've found the sweet spot: Cheeky bi-Weekly!
From now on we are posting once every two weeks!
This will justify the time spent working on them since we'll have two full weeks worth of news on the game and art. And also frees up a bit of time for game development! This said if at any point there is something worth sharing in between the two weeks rest assured we will be posting about it!
That's it about our Posting here on Patreon! Now here come the Game news and some new art Cheeky made!
Leena Date Overhaul Animatics Done
At long last the Leena date overhaul is nearing completion, with totally revamped art and animatics, as well as additional dialogue options, and many sloppy and gushy sound effects!
We incorporated loops into the animatics as well so you can just replay any of your favorite parts, allowing you to fondle or fuck Leena over and over again until you're satisfied and ready to move on!
Leena Catch Up
The writing for Leena's catch up chapter is complete, as is much of the coding. All that remains is the milk scene and animatics, for which Princess and Cheeky will be combining forces to complete!
The Princess-Papi fusion power will block out the sun and disintegrate a large portion of earth's surface, but it will be well worth it to drink milk directly from Leena's luscious lactating boobas!
Pregnancy Sprites
We're sure many of you have been waiting a long, long time for this... You can finally see a character's pregnancy progression!For the catch-up Cheeky even made some edits to Leena's old Pregnant sprite, he made her belly bigger and gave her bigger nipples.It was quite a challenge, programming the game to automatically apply tattoos, piercings, and pregnant bellies in an interlocking system. Without getting into the weeds of it, before hand we were using just a full body variant, but for the pregnant bellies we were for the first time applying modifiers that have to go on top of other bodies. Luckily, Papi was able to spank Princess until she found the right solution!
New Audio features
We're looking into some new audio features; music loops and voice bleeps.
Music loops are fairly simple; the music tracks already loop, but we're looking into shrinking the file size and looping them more efficiently, which would make the game's overall size much smaller without reducing the experience.
Voice bleeps may sound strange, but you've probably heard them in games before! The short version is that they're very brief sound effects that play as each word of text appears in-game, like how many RPG characters have a 'voice' without having fully-voiced dialogue.
Elf mages
Lastly we are taking a step away from the game to take a look at some fun comic sketches Papi made this week.
Cheeky: I was just simply sketching a bit in my free time and the idea of making an elven mage with came to mind, I wanted to give her some Marcille vibes. She ended up being super tall and with huge tits. The pose kind of read as her being scared or weary. From that I got the final idea for the piece. Showing very different types of Elven Mages, contemplating facing a powerful Monster and their thoughts about it.
For anyone who is interested in that sort of thing I wanted to try something different here. For the coloring I just filled in the flats with different values of gray. And then I applied a custom gradient map. Then finally added the green accents. For how little work it took I think the coloring came out pretty nice.Once I finished the sketch I thought. Okay so we have the Scholar, the Adventurer, and the Arsonist... What other types of Elven Mages could there be? And after a while of pondering the orbs, the vision came to me: The Healer.
If you are interested in knowing, the censored text is just a bunch of cuss words written by hand and then censored with a mosaic filter.That's about it! Hope you have a great week and we'll see you all in two weeks! Love y'all!
-Cheeky and Princess