3rd Anniversary News #3 (Patreon)

Third news about the Anniversary! This time about the new UI and some sneak peeks of some other stuff.

(The video may only watchable on YT, still unsure but opening it should solve it may that be the case! Watch it before reading the post!)

Little heads up, I won't be talking too much in detail about the QoL changes and such, I'm still unsure if I'll talk about those... mostly becuase I'd be hard to list and honestly 😅 I'm not really sure how to present.

PROGRESS

As you can see, the thing is still pretty unfinished, mostly needing some fine tuning and some rework/extra custom assets., but it's good enough to tell that is not that far of completition; I'd say the whole UI should be around 60% done, I wanted to get it completed this month but I'm unsure if that can be done.

The whole bases for the programming have been done, so most of the time that I'll spend will be for the assets since the fine tuning to the code should be pretty easy.

WHAT TO EXPECT

In the video shown, you can see some placeholder assets, the most obvious one being the tittle screen; something I want to do is give the option to have and choose multiple of those, which is completely doable! So you can expect that!

I'm still considering if I should do custom screen for the the new Item/Save/Load menus, since I think I could just leave them as semi-transparent windows and it'd be just fine, maybe I'll decide based on the time I have since it's not really necessary and it can be added later on without much trouble.

I may add some previews in the UI about upcoming main girls, not really sure though since I only have very rough sketches of them.

I'm not really sure what else to write here, I think everything you want to see is in the video; so, as always, let me know if you want to know about something in specific.

AXL'S COMMENTS

Honestly, I am really unsure of how to talk about this and some of the next posts. Since I want them to be surprising enough, I can't really go into detail, but I am unsure if they're self explanatory by themselves.

Anyways, next post should be about either the QoL or some of the new mechanics.

This month has been rather "slow" or at least it feels like it, I feel like I could've done way much more but I got sidetracked pretty hard. Even more now that I took some commissions for friends to get some extra budget for friends (I am acing them so I may open them to you guys, not sure if you're interested though).

I'll try to get this as done as I can in what's left of the month, I think there's not much else to do in terms of UI so hopefully I can start remaking stuff soon... I am scared though, Monster Hunter: Wilds is coming out next month and I don't think my productivity will like that.

Right now, it seems like I might need to delay the thing; if that's the case, I am seriously considering opening commission for patrons every month to make sure the income is enough to pay all the people I'm hiring for this thing. In hindsight, I should've get them way earlier but I was too stubborn to stop thinking that I could do everything by myself.

I hope you guys can wait until the big update is done, I seriously want it to be at least decently playabale before airing it. I have no problem leaving some assets and art unfinished if it doesn't affect the experience too much, so I'll cut corners and I'll finish those after the update is out.

I think that's everything I wanted to say, see you in a bit with more art, or next month with more news, sorry for the lack of posts and thank you for your support!