Newsletters #1-3 - Aug 24' - Jan 25'

Hi! In our previous site, we uploaded Newsletters 1-3 separately over the course of half a year. Now that we've switched places, I'll do my best to give a recap and summary of our progress in that time with only the assets we're still currently using! A good amount we initially had were changed whether due to revamps or redesigns.

Lothar Dawnstar's Splash, the first we got done!

2D Art:

Overall, we've managed to complete multiple sprite sketch sets as well as get half of the rendered neutrals done! Nearly each neutral had a sketch, for the ones that got redesigned we're still using the same pose for, so we luckily didn't have to scrap everything.

Splash Art has progressively been moving as well, there's a good variety of sketches and a few additional renders. However, since this isn't the main priority nor something we're looking to complete before the demo, it's in the back burner. Though it really helped in testing out a rendering style to see what works or not for our CGs!

This was the time we started also revamping our bio sheets to have a different kind of style and unique illustrations for each one.

Writing:

Enough has been done to have a well detailed outline and also get each event stated! The main time consumer now is doing the in-betweens of that. I've also been able to start doing well-detailed documents for some of the characters' more fleshed out backstories.

Writing for every character's biography is almost complete as well!

Music:

This has been out fastest department! A strong chunk has been previously completed, but are now also being reworked/revamped!

Here's a few snippets: Game Design:

This has been fleshed out lengthily by multiple members of the team, in this time we were able to decide on the core mechanics! As well as some mechanics that we are still altering to test our scope and abilities for this. The information for this is now up on the Home page in this site, so no need to re-upload it here too. UI/UX:

Main dialogue UI has been complete! In addition to now having a lot of concepts drawn out for other aspects.

Extra:

We've hired our first VA for Lothar! Only this role was casted because we had assignments ready, the rest will have an open Casting Call soon! That'll likely get its own post here and on other social medias.

Currently as of writing this we have 160+ server members, thank you all! This is more of something to talk about in the next newsletter, but we have a more structured schedule now for content that I'm really excited for you guys to see what we've been silently working on. Hope it was worth the early wait!