10/10 Status Update

This update is going to be a fairly short one. I'm in a fairly unglamorous period of development where I'm mostly tying loose ends together. Netora Tactics 2 Act 1 releases next month, assuming Steam doesn't jerk me around, so I'm going through all of that content and making sure everything flows and I didn't leave any conversations half done. I'm also writing the last few levels of camp conversations. In Netoria 2 these take longer than in Netoria 1 because I write them for every POV. In Act 1 that means making 2-4 versions of all of them, not 4 every time because sometimes they don't need to change from POV to POV. Once I'm making Act 2, the flow of development will be pretty different because I'll only be working on one POV at a time. But until then I need to juggle working with all of them at once.

As far as Naked Ambition goes, I won't start writing new content in earnest until I've got every straightened out for the Steam release of Netoria 2. But I have been doing bits and pieces here and there. The game ends right before the end game crisis starts, so the basic process is I'm going to write each of those from a route agnostic perspective and then go back through and add the changes I need for each one. Some characters won't change the sequence of events very much, but others will need to have entire unique sequences of events. And then once those are over, I can make the final vote at the festival of flowers and everything is set up for the epilogues.

Today's preview art is another finished sprite I showed a sketch of earlier. I don't want to show off every piece I get too soon, so showing the progression is my compromise towards that. For this one, the composition largely stayed the same. The biggest change was to make Maria look adoringly up at the Princess instead of at the viewer. This was the sprite that had the least changes out of this batch, some of them had entire perspective changes between sketch and finished sprite. To finish things off for this short update, here's another preview for the Vashti POV of Act 2.

I just really loved how the design of Djinn form Vashti turned out. I probably wouldn't have ended up doing these illustrations otherwise. They're slightly out of scope, since I didn't cut anything else to add them. But who is going to get made at me for pushing a little bit more content in there? It's not like I have higher-ups to report too. I can do whatever I want! And what I want is more sexy art of Djinn Vashti.

That's all for this week. As always, thank you for your continued support.