Posted January 28, 2019 by MonsoonMushroom
It’s the end of the month! This is what I’ve been working on for January…
New date scenes for the knights. I realised that outside of evening visits (read: explicit content) you don’t actually interact with your chosen love interest at all in January, which is obviously no good. Here’s a sneak peek of Areli’s date:
The start of a darker story arc. The events in January can lead to some darker explicit content (which is opt-in and clearly flagged) involving Gray, a physician involved with Leith’s family. I’ve made a post explaining this more clearly here (tw for discussion of non-con).
Sprite improvements. Since Dr Gray stops being just a background character in January, I figured he was due a facelift. I honestly hadn’t realised how wonky (and weirdly coloured) that old sprite looked until I redid it! I’ve redone all his facial expressions as well and I’m pretty happy with the improvements:
Writing. I… can’t really show that one off, but I haven’t been happy with January’s writing so it’s still being reworked. I’ve yet to write those new date scenes too, which are a little complex due to multiple dialogue trees, depending on how Leith is faring in various skills.
Patron gifts! Aeolia has donated very generously for the second month in a row – for month one they got a sketch of their choosing, and for month two they’ve requested it was turned into a full CG. This won’t be in the game, but it did turn out pretty nicely, so I figured I’d share! Well, share a censored version (sorry!)
I’m making steady progress but I feel there’s still more to do, so next week doesn’t look likely for new content. Maybe week after? So long as I can get it done before NaNoRenO in March anyway (still debating whether to use NaNoRenO to get a chunk of Squire done, or do another side project…) Tumblr/patreon folks, I’ll see you then.