Today we are introducing the third of the new Act1 support characters, Kilmerve “Sho” Shur. In the drama, Shur’s character is second only to Higre’s in importance, so he easily gets away with being a grumpy brat. We don’t blame him though, dealing with Higre’s antics on a daily basis would take a heavy toll on anybody’s sanity. 

And here is a teaser for the last support character that we will be introducing next week.

Before tackling the alternate outfits, Moon will take a break from the sprites (by this point they are reaching sprite burnout ( ˙▿˙l|l ) hehe) and start work on the Act 1 CGs. Script wise, there are only a couple of secondary scenes left to outline in Kanzen’s route, so all the CG scenarios have been decided.  

We never finalize a CG before I write the final script to avoid clashing details causing us additional work. On the other hand, writing with visual and bgm helps me better capture the mood of the moment. If the sketches end up not being too embarrassing, we will share them here with you (⌒‿⌒)

I’ve also made lots of progress on the new Note UI, and I might or might not have gotten carried away hahaha It’s going to be fun, I promise! I’m really excited to get to introduce you to it once I’ve gathered all the assets. In the meantime, here is a little preview.

Apart from that, we have been working “behind the behind the scenes”, optimizing the code, collating the assets and just keeping everything organized, all necessary but very unglamorous parts of developing visual novels. So, unless you are interested in absolutely unprofessional tips on how to manage some 200 sprites and 100 backgrounds and a 20 chapter long script with multiple routes running parallel, there’s nothing to see on this front haha (if you do want to partake in these absolutely unprofessional tips, feel free to drop your questions in the comments).

Happy Chinese New Year

See you next week!

- Wavi -