Hello once again! Week 2 of "the last stretch" is complete, and despite some steps back due to having a cold for half the week, there was still significant progress!

Overall progress

Makoto's sprite is officially complete!

One thing I had to change in all artworks so far is the fact makoto's skin was overly saturated, due to the change in shading methods. But that has been fixed!

I've also decided to remove the branching path I had mentioned a few devlogs ago as I felt it was unecessary and affected the pacing of this otherwise linear novel. Apart from finishing up some music and extra small artworks, that was it for this week.

Chapter 2's entered the writing phase

Yeeeee! I realized chapter 2 felt more dialogue heavy than chapter 1, so I've given its writing a head start! I intend to make the adult scene in chapter 2 involve more character dialog exchanges that establishes a better bond between the protagonist and chapter 2's lady.

Possible Discord server?

I think it would be a neat idea to introduce a Discord server soon, as a way to notify you about new devlogs more easily! As well as give you access to extra tidbits such as artwork from my previous projects.

For the near future, I've set myself a deadline to finish the remaining artworks, and afterwards it'll be mostly be hunting for bugs in the visual novel and preparing stuff for release! I still have that short trailer I want to create.

Thank you for reading this, as always feel free to share the page around! Have a good one, I'll see you next week.