Weekly progress report

Hello guys! This week we got the first outfit in Erica's remake! There is another outfit in the works and then we'll have the original dress. Aside from that this week I managed to get a lot of work done.

So, let's start with the 2D stuff. I told you last month about the sprite artist saga that the short version is : The guy who made the first set of sprites for the girls disapeared with the money and the second guy who was a decent person told me that he found a full time job and can't accept more comisions. So, I talked to the guy who was making the minor characters and now we have Cata and Erica. Right now he is working on the second new clothing set which is similar to Erika's clothe from Lust Vessel. So I think we might have at least the lineart for next week.

So what I've been up to since the last report? I got a lot of things moving inside the game. Two weeks ago I posted a map for the main hub, now I did the structure of the place last week and this week I made the place work (the tedious part of conecting the maps with doors and warps) I started decorating the inside, although I'm not conviced with the walls of the place so for now you can navigate the place. Now for the game part of the hub I wrote and added to the game the "free time" section that's going to be in this hub when the player shows up. The thing I wanted to add for this new version is optional combats during the free time to not have you bored of just talking and talking, of course they're optional but it breaks the monotony.

Not completely sold on those walls, and I'm sure I can do more things to make this more like big old house that just got emptied. But at least it works now.

The thing about the hub area that I'm having troubles, design wise, is that the place needs to look empty at the start and as the story progresses the characters start adding stuff. But for now it looks more like a lazily designed room for the game more like it was done with purpuse. So for now, the hub is kind of empty, at least adding the doors and windows changed things a lot but still the hallways look like I just didn't want to add anything. For now I gues I'll just embrace the ugly looks and progress with the actual game, there are more tedious stuff in my list of things. For example giving animations to the police boss, adding more cars or actually adding Erica's new sprite to the game. But I guess it can't be all fun and games, everything has their boring part and mine is importing stuff to the game.

On more interesting news, I think I should do a poll soon for some more images to the game, because we only have Zeena and Selene. First I need to think about the use in game for that image because like when I comisioned the Selene one, I didn't have a plan and it ended being used as a beer add.