Posted July 12, 2021 by Xarishro
Hiya.
I'm wanting to apologize in advance since I won't be able to have this build ready for the 15th of this month like I had planned for.
I am working on it and do have a majority of the build done. Unfortunately, due to having to take extra days off when my wrists are hurting, having several doctor's appointments this past month, and also having to rewrite scenes multiple times to get them right, I don't have the build close enough to release for me to be able to post the update on Thursday. I'd rather take an extra couple of weeks to make sure I can release a good build rather than releasing one that's rushed and incomplete.
The latest this build should be out by should be August 15th. I'm shooting for a release before then, but I also want to set that as a deadline for myself so that you all know what to expect.
For now, I shall leave you all with a few sprites that my artist, Coza, has drawn.
The first one is Benji, Marshall's roommate, and he will be appearing in this upcoming update.
The next is Blake, Tracy's boss from the set of short stories I posted last month. He won't be appearing in the VN for a long time, but I figured getting a sprite of him for people to have as a reference isn't a bad idea. Especially since I would need the sprite at some point anyway.
And last is a full sprite for Jeffrey. We took some of the critique and feedback people have given about Jeffrey's sprite and so Coza has redrawn Jeffrey from scratch. If people like the sprite, I plan on getting Coza to at some point redo Jeffrey's expression sprites so that I can update them. If you don't like the new sprite, feel free to let me know as well so we can make changes once we get to that point.
I plan on having Coza draw two more character sprites in the next couple of weeks as well. One for Parker, and one for Meimaru. Chances are, neither will ever actually be used in the VN, but I wanted to have art of each of the characters to use as references. Besides, what's the fun in having characters in a visual novel if nobody ever gets to see them?