Password VN Fangame Progress Report 2 (Rest of March 2024) 

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Hello! FRP Team here! Small update for the fangame, not much to talk about.

Story Script and Coding

For the story script, the first part's mystery and resolution are already thought up and on paper, now we have to translate that into the game. As for coding the overworld's programming is mostly done and we're only missing the second part of gameplay which is the fun part! We're also adding a small minigame that's easy to code. It being a casino opened up that opportunity. 

Sprites and Backgrounds 

 Pixel: 

 Our pixel artist has updated all backgrounds to be way better! Character sprites also got a rework to have better looking animation.  Huge thanks to Booken (@B00_Ken) for helping our pixel artist out with some feedback and suggestions, the entire team appreciates ya!

Drawn:

While we did have a bump in the road due to our sprite artist being way too busy irl, we managed to get another artist on board, the original sprite artist now joining the background artist to develop the BGs. Just one more room needs to be modelled as they're combining 3D and 2D to make the backgrounds. As for the new sprite artist, we were a bit skeptical into adding someone else into the team, but our pixel artist assured us and they're a bit better at drawing anthros than our other previous sprite artist so we gave them a shot. Here's a drawing they did to show us how they could draw the characters in game, also serves as a teaser for another character. (If itch.io doesn't embed it we'll just post it in the twitter.)

What our main focus is on now:

• Finishing the sprites again and making CGs, though our new sprite artist is faster so they should be done in around 2 weeks give or take.
• Work on the second part of gameplay.

We're currently at around 50% of the first segment only missing some sprites, second gameplay part and last BG, our goal is to finish the segment by the end of the month seeing as it's not that long, probably around 40 minutes of gameplay.  If we miss the end of month goal then early may at the latest. Either way when we're sure the segment is done we'll post the next letter on the twitter.