A Fresh Start for Grandpa's Lesson

Hey everyone,

It's been a while since the last post, and this post will be a little longer than usual.

Over the past few days, I've been working on Chapter 8, mainly focusing on writing and planning the story. During this time, we also reached an incredible milestone: 800 followers, and I'm extremely grateful for all the support.

As many of you know, Grandpa's Lesson is my first game. A lot of people have complimented the renders, the story, and the overall experience, but I've also received feedback saying that the visual quality could be improved. I've been thinking a lot about that.

Because of this, I started studying other tools besides AI. I even made a small poll on Discord (and by the way, if you're not there yet, I highly recommend joining since it's the easiest place to follow development updates). After experimenting with these new tools, I managed to get some "nice" looking renders.

However, there was one problem: the artistic style became very different from what Grandpa's Lesson currently is.

Some of you may remember that I already changed the art style once near the beginning of development, and at the time the majority of players preferred that I kept things consistent. After thinking carefully about it, I decided to continue using AI as the primary tool for the project.

That said, I still feel that the game deserves a significant visual upgrade.

So instead of changing the art style completely, I've decided to go through the game and essentially create a large visual remake/redraw of many scenes. My goal is to improve overall image quality, consistency, lighting, character appearance, backgrounds, and presentation.

To be completely honest, I'm still learning a lot of these techniques. I'm not exactly an AI expert, and my hardware isn't the most powerful either, so creating higher-quality assets takes considerably more time. Even so, I'm very happy with the results so far.

To help speed things up, I managed to get a small break from my other job, which means I've been dedicating more time to development recently.

My original plan was to release everything in a single build. However, progress has been slower than expected because of all the extra work involved with improving quality. Because of that, there's a chance I may split the release into two builds:

• The first build would contain roughly half of the content I've prepared so far.

• The second build would include the remaining content plus the new chapter material.

This approach would also allow me to gather feedback earlier and verify whether the save-system issues have finally been resolved before the larger release.

Below you'll find some preview images of the new direction.

Important: These renders are still very rough. They are not final versions, and I'm currently refining, polishing, and improving them.

Thank you all for your patience and support. Reaching 800 followers is something I never imagined when I started this project, and I hope the improvements I'm making will help deliver a better experience that all of you deserve.

See you in the next update.
I really hope this is the last major rework I'll have to do, lol. 😅