Raptor girl reveal + Devlog #120 + Monstergirl poll #45 is on!

Look at her!!! Raptor girl!
I'm so happy with how she turned out. Raptor feathers! Raptor claws!
Her mods were Shortstack, Trying to unbutton tight shirt (rank dependant) and Totally radical. The first one is very obvious, and I approached Totally radical through the palette, the pattern on her headband and belt straps, and the bright colors + paint splatters on her top and sleeves!
I'm really really happy with her, she came out so great in no small part thanks to Fleyr! It was our first time working together but I feel like we really clicked, It was a lot of fun ^^
I hope you'll like her! ^^

Here are all the monstergirl ranks (BOOBS!!!):

Rank 1

Rank 2

Rank 3

Rank 4

Rank 5

Don't hesitate to follow / support Fleyr here if you can! ^^

https://bsky.app/profile/nadesoft.com
https://x.com/flr__a
https://www.patreon.com/flr_doodles

I do have a bit of bad news though! Sadly due to some unlucky time constraints on both our sides we only managed to get her Rank 1 finished in time. The rest should be done soon, I'll make sure to update this post asap along with a notification! I'm sorry about that... > THE RANKS ARE NOW HERE!
The good news is that while it's often been down to the wire to get the monstergirls finished in time, I also hired one more artist last month. I should now be able to build a small reserve of monstergirls so to say, meaning I'll be able to keep revealing new ones consistently without this kind of issue, and without stress!

Phew, this month was a busy month in so many ways!

Let's see...
First of all, I was sick at the end of January/near the start of February! It was more of an annoying kind of sick, but it didn't slow me down too much thankfully.
Over the course of the month, I updated the demo a few times. It was some pretty minor stuff, but I'll list it anyway:

- Fixed a bug that could occur when Oyons being moved turn into mushrooms (Oyons can't turn into mushroom anymore while selected)
- Slightly nerfed Myasine's Sporinid's Shape spawn
- Moved the "?" button page sign closer to the start
- Constellations hint event improved
- Star shooter hint event added
- Added "(no boob...)" text next to the Rank lock setting
- Added information on the SMASH page about destroying fights
- Fixed a bug that would get the player stuck in the lower part of Sablee in some rare cases in the post game.
- Added text to mention how a spell's color determine which Fei is required to cast it in an ocean info sign
- Improved version check

Nothing too crazy, but good changes nonetheless!
The main upcoming change at this point will be the GameMaker 2 port. I mentioned it in the last devog, thank you again to Mason and everyone who playtested this port!
To be clear, the port won't contain any big changes content wise, but it will dramatically improve the overall optimization, loading times and file size. At this point, we're mainly waiting for the next long term stable version of GM2, which is planned to come out in Q2 2025.

On the art side, I designed another 2 characters! Two I considered to be somewhat difficult, too. One of them might have been the toughest one so far in fact! I'm super happy with how they turned out ^^
I'll keep focusing on the art side of things for now, the more character designs I have ready in advance, the better! And since I'm waiting for the next GM2 version before I implement new things anyway, it's the perfect opportunity to do so.
There's been progress on the chibi BE side of things as well, I should have something to show in the next devlog! ^^

I also finally went down the cup size rabbit hole...
I'd like to show various measurements in the almanach for each girl. It's not to uncommon to just make up numbers and cup sizes when it comes to fictional characters, but I want to get something that's still relatively close to real size measurements.
The values I'd like to show in the almanach are:
- Bust size
- Waist size
- Hip size
- Cup size
- Height (or average height in some cases, like Klehss and the Jellies whose height can vary)
- Weight

Some values are more or less predetermined like height and weight. Others need a bit more work, but I figured out a ruler system to approximate good numbers in Clip Studio Paint. This will be relevant for bust size, waist size and hip size.
Then, there's cup size. Based on what I learned, cup size is determined by substracting band size from bust size. Band size is obtained by measuring the underbust, right below the booba! The number you get determines the cup size. Now, this can vary a bit depending on the region, but I chose to go with EU measurements since this makes the most sense for me.
So, a difference of <10cm means an AAA cup, 10-12cm is AA, 12-14cm is A, 14-16cm is B, 16-18 is C, and so on. This would normally stop at 62-64cm for a Z cup, which isn't really a thing in real life, but as you'd expect it's far from enough in BEW! My logic was then to continue with 64-66cm is ZA, 66-68cm is ZB, and so on. It does end up becoming pretty meaningless when you reach ZZZK and such though, so I figured I'd make a custom BEW cup size system where <10cm is AA, 10-14 is A, 14-20 is B, 20-26 is C, and so on. Given how common huge sizes are in BEW, I feel like this makes sense! And the impact of going up a cup size is preserved this way.
Now, the bigger problem is weight. As rank and boob size increases, so does weight of course! but I don't want to just invent it. After looking for a long while online and trying several formulas and boob weight calculators (which surprisingly exist), it turned out that none of these worked outside the realm of reality...
The bottom line is that to figure out breast weight (g), you need to multiply breast volume (cm³) by breast density (g/cm³).
Breast density is easy, it's generally accepted to be equal to 0.9~1 (most often 0.9, but varies depending on the individual).
Breast volume is the tough one! I did find formulas online but again, nothing that applies to BEW sizes. Apparently Blender can give you the volume of a shape (normally for the purpose of 3D printing), so I was considering looking for some sort of template and trying to gauge it by eye and get the value this way, but I stopped there for the time being.
If you have any suggestions or ideas regarding boob volume or cup sizes, don't hesitate to share! :B
So yeah, that was a whole thing.

Other than that, I also took some time to look into moving out. Things are looking good so far, but no guarantees yet! I'll need to take some more time for this reason every now and then until it actually happens of course, but again, now is the best time for me to take care of this.

And that's pretty much everything!

I got better compared to the start of the month, but now I'm sick again lol. ah well

And now, the Monstergirl poll stuff!

The next monstergirl poll has begun! You can now vote for the monstergirl you want to be included in BE Witches in the Discord server if you are a 2$+ patron!

The poll will be active until the 12th of this month. After this, you will be able to change your submitted modifiers until the 15th. Finally, the two rounds of the modifier poll will take one week each afterwards.

Monstergirl poll rules

Poll submissions

Also, now is a good time to submit a monstergirl and/or modifiers if you haven't already as a patron! If you can't think of anything to submit, here is a list of ideas you can choose from. You'll need to join the server to submit anything!

And that's all for now! Thank you again for all the support! ^^