Mystic Ville - 7th February 2022 - Weekly DevLog

Heyeyeyey, everyone,  how you doin' today?
Hope you're doing just fine! Like usual!

We had to deliver a piece of disappointing news yet again, but maybe also RELIEVING this time around!

What I'm about to say is... we'll cut or...  No. It's not cut, but "move". We decided to shorten the chapter and move the last bits on to the next chapter.

Why? Because it's really heavy on the Art and Red is the only one who could draw.

What was moved? The last bits of the chapter. Originally, they were going to be used as a "teaser" for the next chapter, but to display/preview that teaser, we need to add 10 more art. (2 Characters, 4 Backgrounds, 4 Mini-Illustrations) just for around 5 minutes of content at the end.

And adding 10 more tasks on Art is not a simple thing. It could add at least a month.

We decided to just move it into another update after this one because we don't think it's worth the wait for just a "teaser". Though the next update will be faster if we went this route, then that means we're turtling for this chapter... and I don't think that's the smart move to do. I guess we should just balance it out.

On the negative side, the chapter will be shorter but to compensate for it, I'll add more of the story so it doesn't feel rushed and I'll try to pace it as best as I could.

On the positive side, the update will come A LOT sooner than you might think! (Moving the last bits chopped down the art from 2/19 to 1/8) 

Further Details will be explained below!

Story (Script/Dialogues)

After the cut, the story is now at 22/26.

Wasn't it at 36/36 before? Why did it decrease to 22/26? Shouldn't it be 26/26?

Well, we had to move the last 10 outlines of the story to the next update, but the last 4 didn't connect, or should I say, ends in a very bad way if I didn't change it. Errr... Sorry... I made it sound more complicated. What I mean is, I need to rewrite the last 4 outlines so that it transitions better to the next update! There!

Art (Backgrounds/CG/Sprite)

2 Sprites, 2 Scenes (CG), 1 Mini-illustration/CG (Undecided), 3 Backgrounds.

So far, 1 sprite is done, the other will come.

-Red Chan

Code

Code is right now basically only character viewer and layered sprite setups. But I might add something like simple room navigation later, so there might be more tasklist here.

Posing

Only assembled some of Misty's sprite... other than that, nothing major.

And that's it for this week's report, and again, we apologize for yet another amateur mistake... We're so sorry!

So sorry for moving the end content, but this way we can release more frequent updates!

-FruityChoco Studio, PervyChoco & Red Chan