Development Update - Late April

Hey everyone,

Following on from last week's post, we thought we'd update you on our progress.

We're currently working on the next main story update and the "side paths" simultaneously.

Note that the images in Blender are currently rendered in lower quality without their final lighting. The Daz ones have their lighting but are also rendered in lower quality without post-work).

Main Story Update

What's done

• The animations are animated

• We have 192 images posed, lit and rendered

• Most of the coding is complete

What's outstanding

• The animations need to be lit and rendered

• 139 posed images still need to be lit and rendered

• "Post-work" is needed on the images and animations

Side Paths Update

What's done

• Most of the animations are animated

They may not all be released in one update, as we planned to have a Part 1 and a Part 2 of each character side path per realm, but below are the number of images we currently have posed:

• Gina: 445 images

• Tasha: 162 images

• Mei & Ling Guo: 129 images

This means that 736 images have been posed for the side paths so far. These images won't necessarily all be in this first side path update. But we will keep you posted on the exact numbers.

What's outstanding

• The lighting, rendering and post-work

• Parts of the coding

• The posing of the other character's side paths

As you can see from the numbers, the side paths are a massive undertaking; hence, we didn't do a new game update this month. We're incredibly excited to share them with you as soon as we can.

Whether it's a side path or the main story update, you'll have a new release in May!

Jay's Full-Time!

Despite us building a team over the last couple of years, including several full-time team members, I've retained my unrelated full-time job and haven't moved over to work full-time on SeptCloud. We prioritised hiring skilled team members over putting myself on our company's payroll. With effect from May, I'll be working full-time on the game. This may not mean much on your guy's side, but working only one job instead of two will be a huge benefit to me mentally and should allow me to be more active in the community than I have been recently. I can also support Tae more with managing the day-to-day tasks.

In Other News...

We've teased that we brought on two team members to work on a separate project. This game is set in the same world as The Seven Realms but follows a different group of brand-new characters.

We're still a while off from launching this game, but we'll share more details with you and launch the Steam store page tomorrow! The cover art is below...

 Thanks for your support, everybody. Have a lovely weekend!