I’m officially on “vacation” now until mid-September, so for basically a whole month! Which really just translates to me having to spend 20 hours less every week on my part-time day job and dedicating all that time to VN development instead!
And naturally, I want to make the most out of it, which I’ve already started with during these last few days!

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As you can see from the title, I’ve primarily returned to script work this past week. With the BG art for the backyard done now, I can finally finish up the investigation segment for it, so that’s one part I’ve spent a lot of time on: thinking up and writing the background examination comments and dialogues.

I’m simultaneously also working on the conclusion to the second investigation phase, however. Before it’s time for the final showdown with Raptor Pack Productions to unravel all the remaining mysteries and identify the actual killer, Keiichi can approach the members of his team one last time to have a final, quick conversation with them before they gather up to confront the suspects.

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As mentioned in last week’s blog post, I’ve spent last Sunday fully dedicated to background art again and did, in fact, finally finish up both backyard BGs along with all of their variations! With this, almost all the BG art for GENBA no Kizuna is done! There is only one more location I gotta work on: Terano‘s room. That will be the last place you get to investigate in the game, although it won’t be a full room investigation. Instead, it will be more focused on accessing Terano‘s laptop. As such, I am still a bit indecisive as to how much of the room I should depict. Should I offer a view similar to Ryuunosuke‘s room, meaning that basically half of it is visible? Or should it just be a close up of Terano‘s desk, given that his computer is the main (and really only) point of focus?

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