Saturday Update!

Hello again folks! Sorry for the slightly late update, I've been busy as hell!

I have a few things to go through, so let's get into it!

First off, thank you very much everyone for applying for alpha testing! I've chosen my alpha testers and we're already testing. I'm sorry to anyone who applied and wasn't chosen, I still appreciate your willingness to help out very much!

So far, my testers have found a ton of spelling errors and small bugs, and are already giving me some incredibly solid suggestions for improvement. I'm super happy with how it's going and I'm confident that we'll be able to polish the game up a lot! It's very exciting! ^o^

I'm extremely grateful for the added expertise and perspective!

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I also have some good news about a coding endeavour I mentioned earlier- I have successfully coded a working photo gallery!

This was a huge victory in my opinion- it was very complicated to code!

I'm very pleased with it, since I feel like it solves my 'impossible CG Gallery' problem. Now, a player can decide what art they want to save for themselves- They can save up 60 pics!

It does remove one aspect of collecting/completion, but in my eyes the purpose of collecting in a game is to add replay value and richness. I'm hoping that the personality system, death tokens, and various rewards will provide that replay value in other ways. Even the photo system may work towards that in a different way if players task themselves with curating a great gallery.

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A quick update on the merch situation- I got my packages and have everything ready for the restock and new daki drop on Monday :D I've seen and taken photos of the new dakis in person now, and I can say with pride that I feel they're very high quality. The richness of the black and red look fantastic. I've very happy with them, and I hope anyone who buys one will be pleased as well!

[ my phone washed out the pics a little, the colors are even richer in person ]

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In other other news, I've also been trying to squeeze in more music lessons whenever I can in my free time. I'm about 2 hours into my 8.5 hour course [ although that's probably like 4 hours of real time since I pause constantly to follow along and try concepts myself ] and I feel like I'm learning SO MUCH.

I'm really REALLY enjoying myself! I love experimenting in the program with the concepts I'm learning. I've also started listening to my own music library totally differently, trying to imagine how the songs would look in the program and how the tracks would be split up and stuff. It's so inspiring and fun!

But of course, I am still incredibly baby at it.

I've been trying to build a song by myself- it's pretty messy and stuff but I'm kinda proud of it!

It's not a whole song yet or finished or anything, but I'll include what I have so far as an attachment to this post [ Patreon doesn't let me embed music RIP ]

Please be nice though it's literally my first song LMAO

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I think that's about all I have this week, sorry for the messy update! I'm kind of juggling a lot of different balls now with the Alpha Testing, music lessons, feature coding, merch update, and putting more art on my website every Friday. Everything is progressing really well though I think!

Next week will probably be mostly testing/fixes along with packing merch orders, but hopefully soon I can start working on final ink/color art!

Thank you guys so so much for your support! Have a safe and fun weekend!