Chibi BE!
Ghost girl and Gravitar this time! Gravitar was definitely the toughest one of the two, not only because of the zipper but also because of the suit's transparency. Ghost had her own challenges though, these lil ribbons are really tiny...! I'm especially happy with how she turned out ^^
R4 and R5 chibis are available to $10+ patrons!
Although really, every single character is some form of challenge when it comes to drawing the BE, usually because of the design, but often because of the pose too!
Once again it's been a mix of drawing more chibi sprites and IRL stuff this month. Both are going great, all the characters who required a 3D chibi model are just about ready. One of the tougher ones I asked a 3D model for was Phinia, the Slimegirl, since she gets taller with each rank! She had been on my mind for a long time since I didn't want to just scale up the whole sprite, or she'd end up with a massive chibi sized head! I wanted to instead scale her up while also reducing her head size proportionally. And the correct balance for that has finally been figured out. What's great about this is that this isn't just for her, these are proportions I'll be able to reuse for other mini giantess characters too! ^^
So yeah, I don't have very many chibi BE edits left to draw! I expect I'll have them all done this month, probably with the exception of Vuu and Rose who need a bit more work given they have so many poses and need to be given less of a bean like body. There is still technically more sprites to draw, this time from the ground up, for Hydra, Succubus, Dragon, Saen'Liz and Tiger.
These can wait a bit though! I've got more stuff to do, like designing more characters and going back to coding for a bit. The new Game Maker version still isn't out (but is being worked on from what I gathered), so I think it's gonna be time to release the GM2 port (aka the optimization update) pretty soon and figure things out whenever that new version does come out. I don't expect it'll be much of an issue anyway! So no date yet, but it'll happen soon! It will be Patreon only for a bit before being released publicly.
As for the BE related update, I'm hoping for a 2026 release! I don't remember if I ever mentioned it here but yeah, that's the current plan ^^
It'll have a bunch of extra secret stuff I can't wait to share! :B
Other than the chibi sprites, more characters are being worked on. I'm thinking of revealing one more before focusing on chibi reveals for a bit!
Additionally, more tracks have been finished! The new update will feature a couple of these ^^
This month has been pretty busy poll wise, we had both an Alt costume poll and the very first Illustration poll! That was a bit much for me to keep up with though, so I'll keep things a bit slower this month with only one Illustration poll.
Which, speaking of, I'm going to be doing (at least) a +1 version for all illustrations! That is, a version with bigger booba. This is a BE game after all, so it only makes sense! ^^
As for when illustrations will be taken care of and released, I'm not sure yet! Not before things slows down on my side at the very least. There are several artists I'd like to contact about various things, but starting new tasks right now would be a bad idea since I wouldn't be able to give them enough attention! So for now, just focusing on finishing what I started, especially the chibis.
And now, the poll stuff!
The next illustration poll has begun! The theme this time is [Freeform], meaning you can vote for the submitted patron ideas which will determine the focus of the illustration! You can do so in the Discord server if you are a 2$+ patron!
Here are the current theme and submissions: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Drz4UD09YftgaihcwWq6McqiFTa2l77XJ9oBJ0hfDco
The first round of the poll will be active until the 15th of this month and will determine a selection of winners, from which the final winner will be selected in the second round which will last from the 16th to the 30th!
And that's pretty much all for now! Thank you for reading ^^