Character Designs - why we had to change them
Added 2024-01-15 14:25:31 +0000 UTCA big reason why we wanted to change the designs is that Tsun as the main character designer and artist just got better over time as we worked on the game and I'm sure that's clear to everybody in hindsight. But another big reason was that the process we used before to organize, draw, color the sprites was a bit tedious and time consuming. It wasn't flexible and didn't let us make additions or edits easily.
Another big reason is the color was hard to work with - from the previous coloring method. You may notice that the colors seem a bit faded or dull in the older versions. That's because of the screentone we use to give that manga-esque look as well as the coloring method. We changed it so that the colors go through better. The screentone also gave this really annoying screentearing look whenever you resized the game so it was always unpredictable based on your setup of how the game looked.
And the last reason is that Akane and Mika are obviously the more toned/shaded characters in the game. We wanted to give them the justice of looking good while still being associated with their respective color codes.
