Manticore girl + Devlog #116 + NPC poll is on!

Manticore girl!
Doesn't she look amazing?! ^^
Bee did an excellent job with her, as always! Her mods were Metalhead, Sports bra and Mini giantess.
I'm very happy with how the design came together. Her manticore parts complement the metalhead aspect really well, as do the simple but effective green star patterns on her bra and spats. I was especially insistent about the huge hair :B
Her jacket patches were also very fun to work on. ^^
And of course, there's the face! She's one of the meanest looking monstergirls so far, it's perfect!
I'm just really really happy with her. I hope you'll like her too!

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

Rank 1

Rank 2

Rank 3

Rank 4

Rank 5

You can follow/support Bulumblebee here:

https://twitter.com/bulumblebee (18+)
https://www.patreon.com/bulumblebee (18+)

I also put some hard work into creating more assets this month. If you remember, I made a bunch of SFX last time and had just started drawing stuff for the remaining missing bits.
I made even more SFX, and so did AM4N! There are now over 250 new SFX. All that's left in that aspect is a few ones that require special attention, which I'll also be commissioning AM4N for. Additionally, the new BEW main theme should be finished sometime this month!
On the graphical side of things, I drew everything that was required for the Biscotti restaurant and Voleia's festival, as well as a bunch of new chibis! The rest of the Voleian knight now have sprites, new Biscotti NPCs have been added for more variety, and a few other unique Biscotti NPCs have been finished as well.
I also drew a new menu NPC, the Biscotti alchemist who was previously replaced by Cookie! I'll reveal her eventually ^^
That was a lot of work, but there's more! I was able to implement a lot of it and even fix a few issues.

Here is a small changelog:

Alchemy UI / assistant placement has been slightly improved

Menu NPC name is now shown above the dialogue box in relevant menus

Fixed the reversed Heartchain link and Terra's incense effects

Added all the new chibi NPC sprites

Implemented the new Biscotti alchemist

Some Biscotti related optimization and improvements

The Biscotti restaurant has been implemented!

The food system has been implemented!

The very first quest of the game has been implemented!

Do you remember the useless green tab in the Almanach menu? This was added years ago to record optional quests in the game. That whole system has just been sitting there all this time, and I finally made use of it! With just a few minor changes, it was still ready to go ^^
I used it to introduce the Biscotti restaurant, which lets you buy food as long as some conditions are met. Foods are consumable items that permanently increase a character's stats the first time they eat it! The eaten foods are recorded on each Witch's Spellcard ^^
There were actually quite a few moving parts involved in making this all work and it ended up being a bit tougher than I expected in some dumb code error ways, but thanks to a lot of good preparations everything ended up clicking together really well. This is a system that had been on my mind for so long now, I'm very happy to finally have it in the game ^^

Work on the new chibi making process is also progressing smoothly, no issues there! Though as I said last time new playable character chibi sprites probably won't be implemented before the public demo release. I want to make absolutely sure that I'll have time to finish the Voleia festival sequence, add some new NPCs in Sablee and especially Biscotti, and to actually implement the new SFX and music! I'm not worried about being able to do this in time, but I do want to focus on fixing as much stuff as possible afterwards, no matter how minor, rather than adding more.

So yeah, that's the plan!
The next demo will be released sometime in December on Patreon first and will be made public 2 weeks after as stated by the tier rewards. Just like last year this is both exciting and stressful, but the main difference is that I'm a lot more confident especially thanks to all the support and bug reports I've received! If you helped me in any way at all, thank you so very much! ^^

This month, we're doing an NPC poll!

The next NPC 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 15th of this month. After that, there will be a second NPC poll! The first one is popularity based, and the second ne is patronage based.

NPC polls determine the species of a future menu NPC, such as Liv (Revival girl) , Lidze (Mimic girl)⁠ or Cookie (Cow girl)⁠, all of whom got in the game through such polls.

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! ^^