4/5 Status Update

I now have a SubscribeStar. Since you're already here you're probably okay with Patreon, but in case you'd prefer to follow me there instead, all Patreon posts and content will now be posted there as well. Feel free free to switch if you'd like.

I hope everyone liked my April Fool's joke. If you haven't checked it out, there is an actual game linked to in that post, it's pretty short so if you just want a laugh I'd recommend trying it. The artist who did the character art for that is the same one who did the female Owain bonus art. I think they did a great job, maybe I'll have them work on another project sometime.

The other big news this week is I badly sprained my foot, literally right after I left a checkup at the doctor. What does this mean for game development? Probably nothing, if anything it means I'll work on stuff more since I can't really walk right now and distractions Such as going outside or being anyplace but my home are off the table right now. . But it sucks and stuff that sucks happening to the person who makes these games is relevant for these updates. I got a boot for my foot which helps a lot, but it's still painful to walk around. Enough about me though, let's talk about the actual games.

The poll I made about what game to focus on next has been pretty much neck and neck. So basically the mandate seems to be do whatever I want, which isn't exactly helpful but it's good to know all these projects have about the same level of enthusiasm. I really want to finish Naked Ambition, but it's still not flowing well. I'll keep pushing though, I started making some progress on the end game crisis events this week. It's getting closer but still a long ways away.

For At the Mountains of Friendship I'm almost done hiring the voice actress for Sk8er. After that I need to wait for her to finish the lines and then I'll process them and put them in the game. After that the update is good to go. I also have the new UI for the progression update mostly done. But that update is still going to be a longways away since it's a lot of work and not my main priority anymore. Every girl will have her own skill tree and unlockable abilities, and with 15 of them that's a lot of stuff to come up with, program, and test. I think 1.3 should be out either the 12th or the 19th, depending on how quickly the voice actress gets her lines done.

Most of what I've been working on for Netoria Tactics 2 is art production. The big thing right now is I'm choosing between two scene artists. I had one lined up, but with AtMoF wrapping up the artist how worked on that is now available. So I had them both do the same scene, here's the results.

This is the version by Rad_Lad, the artist for AtMoF and a good amount of the Netoria 1 scene art.

And this is the new artist. What do people think? Do you prefer one over the other?

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