Weekly Update (7-14-2025) (Patreon)

Pretty good progress again this week.

We're about 2k words from this becoming the new longest update, and this one will definitely pass that. I'm going to take one more week with the writing, I think, so August 1st is looking like the most likely release date. The fact that I'm managing 15k words a week instead of 10k like last update is hopefully a sign that things are on the upswing for me. Hard to be 100% sure, but they are in theory slowly improving in general, so it would make sense.

One thing I did last week was finally make busts for Cassander and Antiochus.

While I was at it, I decided to give them both an ultimate cutin animation during the fights in the intro. Here are some videos previewing those:

Antiochus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp9gr5KYXhs

Cassander: https://youtu.be/6Flxo9YG8mc

Doing work like this can be a nice change of pace when I need it, and I'm pretty happy with how they came out. Antiochus's actual ultimate skill, Storm of Ages, is new with a new animation, while I juiced the Invoke Haures animation a bit for Cassander.

As an aside, one thing that really frustrates me is not having a bust for Veronica or Anselm. I like their art quite a bit as it is. At some point I may look for someone who would be willing to try to extend them out into one, but I'm a bit pessimistic here. Veronica I could potentially have Mimo fully redraw via tracing like she has with Despoina, but I'm not sure since I do like her current art. Anselm I'm pretty sure I want to keep as is, though. >.>;

Ah well, just something that's vaguely on my todo list, along with finding someone to work on more soldiers while Mimo focuses elsewhere. All of that is just vague potential future stuff for the moment, though. For now, going to focus on wrapping up v0.16. Hoping it will be a good update in general. ^^