Weekly Status Report

Good evening,

it's gotten a bit later today as I wanted to get a few things done before actually writing this report. But now time to talk about the past week.

I started the week by working on some more animations for Bianca and also did some last renders for Gavina's scenes. This took a while and when I was finally done with it I implemented all the animations to make them playable for a scene. After that I went back to working on Bianca's combat skills. For now I have settled on a few thief typical skills which will allow her to have the playstile of a thief (backstab, hiding, stealing - to name a few) getting the combat animations done right took me a while but I'm now happy with the results. I also made necessary preparations for Bianca to join and leave the players group which will then interrupt her daily routine.
After that I made combat sprites for all new enmies that I want to add in 0.5.9.5 and started working on skills for them as well (as of right now I'm not done with that).
The next big thing that I now also finally started to do is to work on the actual dialogs and story. It's always a great moment when all the work and preparation I've put into the assets/images is built in and you gradually see how they belong together. That will be a lot of work to do next week, but the pieces of the puzzle are finally coming together.

During my work on a dialog with Lyvia today, I've decided to give her dialog images a new look. This is something I've wanted to do for a while, and when I saw her recent pictures during the playtest today, I decided to finally do it.

Especially her other dialog images, like in her night gown, needed a makeover, and it felt really good to finally give them a new look.

I know this has nothing to do with the current update, but I just couldn't resist and it also didn't take long to update them.

Alongside these things I also made a few bugfixes (at this point thanks for the reports!) and made some preparations to update Gavina and Bianca's dialog images so that they can be adjusted in the future (For Bianca this was necessary to get her new clothes right into all the dialogs - And it it's also a preparation for future pregnancy content).

All in all, it's been a long week, but I have a feeling that next week will be even tougher. As is often the case, the closer I get to a release, the more I come across smaller and larger problems that need to be solved before everything fits together. I am now sure that I will really need the whole of next week to get the update finished. I probably won't include some of the animations yet either, as it won't be possible to formulate the storyline up to that point. There is also a set of animations that even needs editing, which I will leave for 0.6.0.0.

For today it's now enough and I will finally call it a day.
I wish you all a nice weekend!