Last week, I showcased some of Nobara‘s facial expressions for SHINRAI Saku – Blooming Beyond Despair. Today, it’s Raiko‘s turn!
May 17
Weekly Blog Post #562: SHINRAI Saku Sprite Progress – Facial Expressions
As you can see, this past week, I’ve started working on some alternate facial expressions for the cast of SHINRAI Saku!
And yes, that does in fact mean that I’ve also finished the final base sprite earlier this week, which patrons can already check out here!
Well, some details still need to be adjusted for it to be truly finished, but it’s really more minor refinement work than anything else.
I figured I’d distance myself a bit from the base sprite and look at it with fresh eyes in a couple of days to better assess things.
And in the meantime, I decided to move on to the next step: giving our base sprites some variation!
May 10
Weekly Blog Post #561: Sprite Progress, Neko No Sentouki Translation Progress, Mystery Game Jam & Flowchart Tool
This past week, I’ve once again been focusing on the sprite art for SHINRAI Saku – Blooming Beyond Despair!
Currently, I’m working on the last full base sprite needed for the project and plan to finish it within the next few days, so that a Patreon preview can be published next week. Afterwards, we will need a couple more mugshots and silhouettes for characters that won’t play an active role in the story (similar to how we did it in GENBA no Kizuna) and, of course, some different facial expressions for our main cast, but the toughest, most time-consuming work in terms of the sprites will finally lie behind us!
It’ll be another major step forward, so I’m pretty excited to get there!
May 03
Weekly Update #560: Taiko Intro Card, Kamen Sprite Preview, Fanart & Neko No Sentouki Release
Another member of the cast for SHINRAI Saku – Blooming Beyond Despair has now been added to its “Characters” section!
And once again, it’s a familiar face! Say hello again to the son of everyone’s favorite loony medical examiner: Taiko Kikai!
May 01
Neko No Sentouki Released!
If you’ve been following this blog closely, you may have caught a mention of Neko No Sentouki here or there, especially over these last few weeks. It’s an adventure visual novel created by SKredjun, a name that should also sound familiar to you, as she has provided us with many adorable chibi icons in the last two years, primarily of the GENBA cast (you can find them all in her gallery section)!
Quite some time ago, I decided to check out the demo for her VN project and ended up enjoying it very much. So much, in fact, that I eventually got personally involved in it by helping out with the English translation. That’s why, today, I’d like to take a moment to promote the project some more and link you to its store fronts. Because, as the title of this post has already given away…
The full version of Neko No Sentouki has just been released!
Apr 19
Weekly Update #558: Quick Progress Update
As the title says, today, we’re gonna have a shorter post again, as I’m once again really busy and still have much to take care of!
There isn’t too much to report, anyway. This past week, I’ve begun to tackle the next character’s base sprite for SHINRAI Saku and primarily worked on that. I can’t show you a preview of it yet, but I can at least tell you who it is: our green-haired acting queen Kamen!
I’m still struggling a bit with adjusting her hair, since she has to tie it up a little differently in the back for reasons™. But other than that, I’m very happy with how she’s turning out and I can’t wait to share her!
Sprite art aside, I’ve also spent a lot of time on Neko No Sentouki. In case you missed last week’s blog post, where I talked a bit more about the project and my involvement in it, I’m helping out as a proofreader/tester. And given that its release is quite imminent, it’s obviously a bit higher on my priority list right now!
Anyway, that’s about all the time I have today, so please enjoy the rest of your weekend, have a very Hoppy Easter and, until next Saturday, take care ʚ₍ᐢ. .ᐢ₎ɞ
Apr 12
Weekly Update #557: Nobara Intro Card, Mana Sprite Preview, Fanart & Neko No Sentouki Update
Let’s start off today’s update with another character introduction! If you’ve happened to check the page for our brand new project SHINRAI Saku – Blooming Beyond Despair this past week, you may have already noticed that another slot in the “Characters” section has been filled! This time, it’s out little scaredy-cat Nobara Akadori!
Apr 05
Weekly Update #556: Plans For April
A new month has just begun and so, it’s once again time to give you an update on our plans for the coming weeks. Of course, they will mostly revolve around our new project SHINRAI Saku – Blooming Beyond Despair. Now that the script is fully written out, and someone other than me has read the whole thing, we can finally shift focus more towards actual game development again!
But let’s take a more detailed look at the various areas that comprise making a VN like this, and check what kinds of tasks are lying still ahead of us! Beginning with the writing, given that Natsu and I were finally able to discuss the script together, now that she’s read it!
