23/05/2025 Patreon Devlog

Hi everyone! Time for this week's update!

Summary

• Revised Daaz's bonus scene

• Revised Asher's bonus scene

• Revised Kav's bonus scene

• Revised Noel's bonus scene

• Revised Raif's bonus scene

• Revised Yren's bonus scene

• Finished new sprite #1 and coded it in-game

• Added a new element to Noel's sprite

Art

This week I fully finished one of the two sprites needed for this chapter and got him coded in. Had previously completed his base sprite but still needed make his expressions - which typically doesn't take too long. But then, of course, I had to save all the components as files, etc.

I also added in Noel's glasses so he'll now be wearing them when the MC catches him reading. This happens a couple of times in earlier chapters so if you replay you'll see him wearing them in the game.

Writing

I drafted and revised all the bonus scenes. I'm quickly giving them one more quick edit and proofreading before coding them. The combined word count (uncoded) is nearly 11,000 words for the bonus scenes. They'll be shorter when coded, of course. But they are mostly done in terms of writing - just doing some clean up before coding.

All in all, this chapter is about 33,000 words without the bonus content and about 44,000 words with it.

The bonus scenes largely deal with not just the LI's ruminations on what happens down on the surface but also with what's been going through their heads regarding Wil for the last few weeks. So it's an interesting exploration of the LI's thoughts about the growing romance.

Coding and Other Stuff

My focus this week was in writing so the only coding I actually did was coding in the sprite additions and then check to make sure they work.

Upcoming Week

I was hoping that beta would be ready by the end of this weekend. It's not gonna happen this weekend just due to writing the bonus scenes and those ending up being as long as they are (only 1500 words each but obviously that's a lot to write and edit across 6 characters.)

But it's possible that in the upcoming week, I'll be able to wrap up the remaining necessities and get the beta out by next weekend. The bonus stories just ended up being a little longer than expected so I've been doing more revising than expected.

But yeah. We are definitely nearly there at this point. Just a couple of additional things to wrap up before beta release. So keep an eye out for it.

That's all for now - see you next time.