Project Plan May

A month is too short!! And I'm saying that even though May hasn't even bug yet x_X

We are back to the Age of Hermann this month and while I was distributing the work items I wanted to tackle, I very quickly found myself at the end of the month... Let's take a look at what will be happening in detail.

Week 1: I just earlier posted the CG for this new event. Basically just like you could get Claude to support Hermann, you can get Rosemond's support if you have done Homewrecking for him. I wanted to do both Victor and Rosemond this week but quickly realized that would be too ambitious with all the freelancer management to brief them on their work also going on this week. Plus Nadia will need to have two variations based on whether you pissed her off in the lewd route or convinced her through the vice route.

Week 2: In this week I will then be writing the last Hermann investor scene which will allow us to also have a lewd scene with corrupted Charlotte and her Lady Charlotte design. Rest of the week is then non-lewd quest work on True Love's Business such as implementing the vice decision to have the ring analysed.

Week 3: Quick break from Aura and Hermann, we will be diving back into Liora for this week. I will finally tackle the issue of h-scenes only supporting an orgasm as the very end of the scene. I plan to do it a bit smarter than just copy pasting the orgasm trigger everywhere so we can both have some variation but also some reuse across scenes so Allure doesn't need to voice tons of minor variations of the same dialogue.

Then the second big item will focus on Garrick. Since we now have a couple of mechanisms for getting Rean out of the party for some time, it makes sense to now tackle Garrick as a replacement party member. If Edgar is Impatient + Rean is not available, he will ask Garrick to come along in Rean's stead.

Week 4: And back to Hermann! I expect that I will either already have or be able to finish up all the necessary conditions for the True Love's Business founding event. Hermann will throw a celebration orgy where all the investors can make an optional appearance as well.

Week 5: It's a 5 week update, so I get a week off which I will be using on the last week since we also have a national holiday in this week. I may also attend Germany's DoKomi convention event as some people have contacted me with the possibility of showing Aura and SKA on their stand. I will be having a small call with them in an hour, so that will be interesting.

As for freelancers, we have:

Artists

Our SKA artist Embu will be mostly busy illustrating the new events in the True Love's Business quest. Outside of that, he is also conducting the animation tests. Over the weekend, he did a little test using Live2D. I was able to integrate his demo work into RPGMaker and display the animation but after some extra research I came to the conclusion that their pricing structure isn't fitting to patreon funded gamedev as they seek fairly high monthly fees in the case of recurrent income.

If you want to see the small thingy we made you can check out the Discord's ska-discussion channel.... But like I said, it's just a super minor demo of Lorraine's boobs dangling a bit and her body moving a bit. Really just a first experiment. Should you be an RPGMaker dev and wondering if you could use love2d in a project

https://gitgud.io/auragamedev/auramz_live2d

I have created a very minimalistic and simple to use sample project out of our research work. It doesn't use the lorraine animation Emubi created but just a sample model. There are other projects also doing this but I was investigating them and most of them had dependency issues because something being outdated. This should work with the latest version of live2d (at least based on our testing).

On the Liora side, we will be focusing a bit more on the side characters in the upcoming months. That is after we finish the last costume. I have put character art for Garrick and the Blowjob Variation for Ariadne on the art plan in previous months but we never got to it, now is the time to finally get them out of the work queue.

While Garrick will get a less art-focused and more gameplay focused spotlight in the 3rd dev week, Ariadne will be getting some more art next month. The Ariadne Training event will get an extra variation or followup event (not sure yet) where she has sex with Edgar in front of Liora. There will also be an extra begging pose to build up towards Liora also taking up such a begging pose in the future.

The overarching goal of these events will be to raise the Liora's frustration further. Finally, we will also deal with the butt question. Not sure yet if it will just be a variation to save resources or a full alternate CG.

RPGM Dev

Our assistant developer Trihan will be fully focusing on QoL features this month. The Compendium will receive a stat window where you will be able to see party member stats such as number of times KOed, enemies killed, % of damage etc. Then inputting Item Numbers will become a bit easier as we will be making a custom widget for this case instead of using RPGMaker's default Input Number widget. And likewise, he will be replacing the Skill Shop - currently made out of primitive RPGMaker dialogues - with a dedicated Skill Shop menu similar to Shop Menus.

Voice Acting

The main focus in May will be voicing the Rean Date events. Outside of that, just regular progress on the story events.

We also just recently broke the milestone for getting our assistant writer Absurdity (Wrote in SKA in particular Homewrecking, major parts of Roland and Roland Quests, Brothel Customers, and more) back online. But I will need to check if that stabilizes and we can keep the milestone throught the end of month cancellations before I commit to a commission plan already.

Aaaaaand that's gonna be the month.