Saturday Update! (Patreon)

Hello folks! It's finally spring where I am! Seeing the first green grass in half a year is energizing me!

This will be a bit of a simple one, because I technically only completed one image ^^; But it was a very very big image LMAO

Image Completion: 13/734 [ I swear this will pick up speed after the backgrounds are done :wheeze: ]

As you already know, I've been working on the main background for the game! On Thursday I finished the coloring for the daytime version:

Of course, this background is 9x larger than the game screen, so you'll never see it quite like that.

Here's a couple examples of how it actually looks in the game:

On Friday, I started work on the night version of the background. This is going a lot faster, since I was able to start with a base of the day version and a filter over it. Of course, I still need to repaint a lot of surfaces since the lighting isn't coming from the same places.

 I've completed the center and the ceiling, but the rest still needs repainting. I don't think that should take TOO long. 2 days at most.

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I have actually still been working with my Alpha Testers as well. I was about to finish the testing and close it up, but they keep finding little errors and giving me very good suggestions haha!

Last week, one of them gave me a lovely suggestion to improve one of my endings and use my personality system more, so I took a couple hours to make that happen. It was definitely worth it!

I can report to you that my alpha testers and myself all feel very confident that the script/gameplay has improved SO much from alpha testing.

I think that because I was a lot more clear with what I wanted to improve, my testers had a better foundation to look for and suggest improvements. Not to detract from their actual input of course! I wouldn't have been able to improve anything without their ideas!

Bottom line: I'm very excited for you all to be able to play the game eventually and see just how great the script has become thanks to our teamwork!

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Okay, so, there's one last thing. I did screw around a bit with my music too. Just a little. It's very experimental, as I wanted to start learning how to play with vocals [ at least, spoken vocals for now. Not singing ]

The track needs a LOT of work still. Everything is too close together, I'd like to add more melody, etc. I have some solid ideas for it, I just haven't really had much time to work on it between the more vital stuff.

Also, I don't want any tracks with vocals in the gameplay- that's not the vibe I'm going for, but if this experiment somehow comes out actually working, I may put it on the credits page sort of like how I had Gore by Graveyardguy on the TPOF credits page. Or maybe I could throw it into some hypothetical OST as extra flavour. I dunno. But for now, I'm just experimenting and trying to learn new things :) [ unfinished track is an attachment at bottom of this post ]

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Anyway, that's about all I have for you this week! Sorry the background art is taking so long haha! It won't be too much longer until I'll be churning out sprites :D

I hope you all get to enjoy some nice spring greenery this weekend. Stay safe and thank you so much for your support!!!