Dev Log (Patreon)

Good day, my dear ones!

Time for a small devlog, and also a few belated wishes, Happy Valentine’s Day (which was yesterday), and Happy Chinese New Year!

P.S. (First one, it's Kalestra, second one it's Ivy with Miriel.)

Now, onto the interesting part. As I mentioned before, this update is focused on improving the pacing of the story and, overall, developing the characters more deeply. But! Some difficulties came up, which forced me to delete around 400 renders and rework a couple of moments entirely.

As a result, Act 4 will now be fully centered on two girls: Kalestra and Miriel.

(Sorry Flora, your time to shine will come in the next act.)

I also decided to step back a bit from cliffhangers cause I'm bad with that… reveal more of our MC. Because, as the poll showed, many people felt he seemed rather distant, which made immersion harder.

Overall, I’m very happy with the poll result, and I’m sincerely grateful to all of you.

I also stopped chasing word count and tried to cut the “water” to a minimum, focusing more on the core without riddles. And want to show emotions and everything else through renders, rather than endlessly explaining details that are already known.

The outcome? Acceptable. A test build of half of version 0.4.5 was done recently, and the results turned out quite positive from testers.

Stats:

Renders: 700/1400 (not completely sure yet maybe will less)

Text: 13,000/13,000

Code: 4,000/8,000

Music: 70%

I originally wanted to finish the update this Sunday, but no. I decided to focus on quality instead (Quality? What quality?). But despite deleting scenes and renders, the plan to finish everything by the end of the month is still on track and going well.

Next week, if everything goes smoothly with work and studies, I’ll have a small break, and during that time, I’ll try to catch up on what was missed.

That’s all for now. Thank you all for your attention. I’m not saying goodbye, just see you soon.

With respect,

NoGlory