Hi everybody.
Happy Friday! I hope you had a great week. Here's a summary of our work since the last report:
Chestnut:
She worked on polishing cutscenes and adding variations to them. In this update, we almost always rely on using the sprite facial features in cutscenes, meaning that the need for variations is less than before, but even so, there are instances where the cutscenes show different characters so closely that using the sprites would lead to blurry and pixelated art. Chestnut has been making variations for those (sharpening blurred elements by repainting them). She also revised the base art for one of the sex scenes I worked on, as the angle and motion didn't work after creating the mesh and animating it.
Pistachio:
My work was divided between editing the dialogue to remove its fluff and its redundancies, and creating animations. In addition to the animation mentioned above, I also completed another sex scene this week, and that one, fortunately, was pretty straightforward. I have coded it, and it looks pretty good even before its frames being edited by Chestnut.
Speaking of sex scenes, we had mentioned in one of our earlier reports that 0.8 would include a foot job, and we'd love to know if people would prefer that to be optional or not. As of right now, the foot job in question is part of Holly's story and cannot be avoided (it will be optionally repeatable once the story is done). The reason that we made this scene integrated into the story is that MC had already had some involvement with Holly's feet (he licked them to tickle Holly and win against her in mud wrestling), and we thought the sex scene would be a good end to that interaction. If people are really averse to it, though, we might make it completely optional (will require recoding and some rewriting, but doable). Anyway, please let us know what you think.
That's all.
Have a wonderful weekend!Cheers!