Status Update #65 (Patreon)

Hello there!

Hope you had a nice holiday and survived through the New Year!

The holidays are almost over here in Finland, and soon it'll be peaceful again. The coding department got some R&R and is now ready to tackle the pains of SFX and Android again.

On the rendering/art side, we've been cooking. We finished many placeholders and new renders that we wanted to create, and added some more cinematic angles for scene transitions. Pretty simple stuff, and now they feel like they should've been there from the get-go. Summer Heat was originally intended to be a fully 1st perspective experience, but we moved away from it, which has allowed for more creative angles. From a design perspective, it's been a good choice. Hopefully from a gameplay perspective as well.

We've also reworked some Ember dialogue and decided to add a couple more pictures to the conversations.

It is soon time for the last preview of 0.7. We have some options, but we're also curious who you'd like to see. What kind of preview would you be most interested in seeing before the update?

What we've worked on:

Dialogue changes

Ember changes

New renders

Pondering if the extras are worth it for Android

Post-processing renders

Fixing reported poke-throughs

Fixing reported typos

We also made a couple of extra renders for the community since the last post, Christmas wishes from Kate and New Year vibes with Sophie. You can find the ladies below if you are interested.

Merry Christmas from Caitlynn!

December Special Render - Sophie

Cheers and have a comfy weekend,

Robison & Npx