Weekly Update (2-12-2024) (Patreon)

Definitely a more productive week overall. I'm almost done with the first phase of the next update, so I'll be moving on to starting the writing before too much longer.  The last part of the mapping for this update has been fairly complex, so it took some time to get inspiration for where to start, but I'm fairly happy with the results so far and hope it will be an interesting area to explore.

Stuff is also progressing decently well on the art front, both for Alexander and a new version of Ligaea's portraits (along with a proper bust). To talk slightly more about art stuff in broad terms, once those are done, I hope to commission a high end title screen, although I doubt the latter will be done in time for the patron release of v0.11 since I'm not even 100% sure on the portraits. Hopefully that will be ready for the public release, though. It's something I'm hoping will help drive interest, since it will replace most of the places I've used the current title screen as the key art.  While I'm proud of it by the standards of my limited art composition skills, I know it doesn't exactly give the best first impression.

For now, though, focusing on finishing up the mapping and looking to starting the writing.