As you can see, this week has mostly been dedicated to whipping up some more expressions for various characters in SHINRAI Saku. My current goal is to get everything playable until scene 07 when the first big shift in the story takes place, so while I’m going through the script, giving it some more polish, I’m also tackling the remaining assets we’ll need to translate all that into VN format.
And while we did already have a good number of sprite variations for both Nobara and Raiko, some new scenes create new situations that obviously call for new reactions. Thankfully, the main chunk of their sprites is definitely done and so, I only had to create one new expression for Nobara and three for Raiko, which you can see above!
Taiko was a different case, however. As scene 05 marks his first appearance, we didn’t have anything but his base sprite yet, so most of the new expressions I had to do were for him. They should cover everything we’ll need for him for the entire project, though!
With all the backgrounds required until scene 07 done as well, this now leaves only a few more GUI- and SFX-related tasks, two more unique character images and the music tracks. I’d really love to say a bit more about the latter, but that’ll have to wait a bit longer.
Well, at least publicly that is. If you’re a patron, you can check out a new post in which I do share more details about Saku‘s music!
The post also includes an early look at Kamen‘s finished Saku base sprite, including her introduction card.
Patrons can furthermore expect to see Taiko‘s set of expressions pop up very soon, likely some time later next week.
Anyway, that about wraps it up for today. Things are definitely progressing rather smoothly at the moment and it’s one of those rare times when I’m generally happy with where everything is going. Naturally, that has a positive effect on my mood and productivity as well, so I wanna make the most of it and get right back to work!
As for you, please enjoy a spooky rest of your weekend and, until next Saturday, take care ^w^
