Saturday Update! (Patreon)

Hello folks! TGIS, It's time for updates!

Final Art Completion: 37/732

Last week I switched pretty hard to doing final art!

For the first couple days, I was working on the night-mode version of the basement background. I finished up the flat base, and then spent a fair bit of time drawing the open version of cabinets/etc.

After that, I needed to program the buttons properly. They needed to be be moved into place [ gotta be pixel perfect on these! ] There was also a fair amount of script programming that needed to be done to make the camera move properly for the new images and to use the open button images for flavour while looking around.

There was also a few problems with UI/function in the search mode that my alpha testers caught and I had to fix [ stretched screens caused visual errors, and some buttons were hard to press because of proximity to the edge of the screen or other buttons. These have all been fixed now ]

Here's what the final background looks like :D

Although I would say it shines more in actual use with the buttons:

[ sorry about the watermarks, as usual. I get reports of people leaking my patreon content every week, so at the very least they can advertise for me 😂 ]

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For the rest of the week, I worked on final sprites! The first sprites are now in the game 🎉

I completed the set of sprites for the bar scene intro, and the prop sprites needed for that section as well [ mugs of beer or soda ]

 My gif capture kind of crunches the colors a bit, so here's a still image as well:

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It's quite rewarding to finally see the game come together as I envisioned it!

The workflow on the sprites is quite pleasant as well. While there's a ton of them to complete, I'm not too worried. They take a lot less time than TPOF art did because the placeholders act as more complete sketches, and the coloring is much simpler.

Judging by how long it took me to get these sprites done, I think I SHOULD be able to get the rest of them done within 9 months. That's still a very loose estimate, mind you. It's hard to give a solid number because some images will be super easy [ like images of just a head with expression changes for his standing sprite ] and some will be very complicated [ like the remaining couple of backgrounds, or more intense full body CG-looking images ]

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I didn't manage to touch my music this week, since I was going so hard on the artwork ^^; I'll probably be concentrating more and more on final artwork as time goes on.

At some point in production though, I'll carve out serious time for music. I'm 100% committed to doing the soundtrack myself now, since I've gained enough confidence.

Most of the game will just need ambient background loops, which will be easier to make than the songs I was farting around with.

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I think that's all I have for you this week! Thank you so much for your support! ^o^ Stay safe and have a great weekend! <3