Weekly progress report

Hello guys! This week v0.2 finally got into it final stage, the game has all the new quest currently working so at least I think the game can ready next week of course I'll have to do more testing and all that, so next report I'll have an exact date for v0.2.

I'm pretty happy with the 2D side of things this week, in fact we could have gotten even more stuff, but I wasn't ready with the designs. We got the new cultist enemy 2D sprite, this guy will be showing up in the new ending of v0.2 and as an icon he shows up in the boss fight for the previous episode. We also got Erica's eye remake, turns out her eyes didn't change between 4 expresions and having neutral eyes with every expresion made her feel stale or maybe like she was high or simply mentally not there, which is currently solved. Default looks like a creepy smile, neutral is slightly annoyed, happy looks happy and marveled looks like she came. So it fits her better! Now I could have comisioned something else but I thought the cultist was going to be ready for today so I didn't prepare more designs.

See that the old one had the same eyes for both expresions? Now she looks slightly creepy or with bad intentions and the other one... It's the other one!

The game itself got a lot of movement too! We got the side content in, which is: 2 complete quest in the library, Esmeralda hidden somwhere in the map, the second part of the hidden safe, Sienna's store and I'm only missing a bonding event with Erica mainly because the store needs stuff. With the nerdy stuff store I can get the final side content for v0.2, but the script is already in and all that. So on a rough level you can get from the start of it until you leave the library with Cata, so I'm missing only the last event and the polish.

So, polish... The mall needs the signs and backgrounds for the store, I haven't progresed on the side since last week, but we have the generic NPCs as well as the walking NPCs. On the library the building itself looks more polished, I need more paintings and some statues and we could say it's ready, but I don't have the generic NPCs at the moment, right now everyone who's in the library is part of a quest and most of them are placeholders because characters like the librarian or the researcher I've showed some weeks ago doesn't have 3d models yet.

Anyhow, as far as v0.3 goes I really think I might have it ready in late december, since the thing that's most time consuming is make a new area from scratch and by that I mean whole "town" like it's Rio Bravo, the main hub or the mall. For v0.3 there is no new area, it will only expand the mall since it's going to be where the bulk of the action is going to happen. The only thing I feel slightly disapointed with v0.2 is that the cellphone is going to be in v0.2.1 so Luna won't show until a couple weeks after it, but if I do the cellphone as 0.2 I feel like I'm going to be stuck way more time than just making it as 2 different things... It's a matter of mental hygine!