Plans for 2022

Hey... It's been a while! Haha... 😳I know I'm not a big fan of when a VN goes a long time without communication so I thought I'd just come here and give y'all some of my thoughts and plans for Aurum Academy!

So first things first; Woo chile making a whole game is a lot harder than I anticipated. In the beginning I tried to kind of rush it thinking, y'know, I can just learn as I go along! But... yeah, still don't know how to code nothin', still in the process of writing the script and figuring out how to get from the beginning to the planned endings, and still not really that confident in my artistic ability to fully commit to anything design-wise.

All that being said it's still really fun and exciting to see something I made and characters that I came up with just existing... I really want to continue this game and even spin-offs (I'M AN IDEA PERSON DON'T JUDGE ME) but even with the simplified choice-less route thing going on it's still kind of outside of the scope of someone with no experience trying to do it alone..

TLDR; We out here strugglin', but Aurum will still be getting updated! Just... Idk don't expect very often. I'm thinking about testing the waters with a much smaller VN to get a feel for whatever the fuck I'm doin' before going full on into Aurum lol

Actual Progress

Currently in the process of trying to give the beginning of the story a little more intrigue and a little better world building because... Do y'all even know what the Ancients are? That's a pretty important thing and I ain't told nobody about them... So yeah next update will probably be a fresh play-through moment.

Also currently redesigning some of the characters to make them more visually interesting! The characters don't really look their age currently and that's mostly because 1) I ain't that good at drawing and 2) These were mostly intended simply to be a base that I could design outfits over; a reference image, if you will.  Buuut making fully animated sprites for every single character would be a pain in the ass so I think they'll probably be staying except for CGs and in 1-on-1 convos like with Mateo in the garden on Day 3. I'm also going to try and downsize on the overall cast if possible (some of the teachers and maybe a couple students, as much as I love all of them 😭)

Speaking of redesigns here's the new ones for Aspin, Timon, and Sibonelo! (Subject to change! More will probably go up on twitter or deviantart later)