Late April Status Update

Greetings ladies and gentlemen,

Time for my usual ramblings to keep you all up to date.
Still busy with my bachelor's, but luckily that is over in two weeks 😁 And we still made some decent progress thanks to my amazing team picking up my slack in the meanwhile.


Writing:
We are currently on 7k lines for Update 7. The main storyline with the recruitment of the second army is now pretty much finished. Akari and Jade had their little adventure, being the occasional badasses those scary fighting experts have any right to be...
...while having moments of tender care, cute and funny snippets and important character development in other scenes. All in all, I think we got a nice blend of everything that made our story unique in the arc and then added some. But I'll let you all be the judges once we are able to get this out.
Apart from the main arc, the writing on the other content has only begun. We have a few loose scenes so far, but ofc. we want Gina to do cool and meaningful things too. And let those girls grow a bit... so some work ahead of us yet. I'd say we are half-way there with the planned content.


Art:
Since I posted my cool pictures in the story section already and I still refuse to show images of the new chars involved in the story... well😅The good thing is that we got our process of building scenes optimized a bit more, so most of the images needed for the story arc are already present and implemented.
And one more thing, we are in the process of updating some old images in the meanwhile. Nyx has been tirelessly at work and here are some results:

And we also might be able to welcome the great Bicepsual to our crew (if I don't scare him off with my nit-picking😅) and get some very nice lifting pics for a possible expanded training function for Gina :

Coding:
Mechanics for the next boss are almost done. For the next boss, we made the effort of using all new sprites for the heroes and enemies. The Reapers are only sending their best after all. (Not those here, those are nameless extras😁)

Apart from combat we are working on some important QoL features. Nyx spent countless hours working on the dialogue tracker that provides an in-depth guide to finding all the content in the game. The nifty thing is, that the player can decide how much help he wants. Only want a calendar showing which character is available in which location without holding your hands while you explore the open world on your own? BÄÄÄM! Tired of running to every location and checking if maybe now Jade has a new dialogue option available? Wanna see what's available without giving away possible spoilers by revealing the triggers needed? Here you go. Want some more guidance to see which character still has unchecked events before advancing to the next strength level and possible skipping those events forever? Some in-depth guidance on which conditions need to be checked to unlock it? Can do.


So there is a lot happening at GG. 😁
Sadly I can not yet give any estimate on a release. May might be too optimistic for Update 7, but at least I hope we can get out 6.2 in May and 7.0 in June. It sucks having the updates so far apart, but at least there will be a ton of content in this one again.

Ok, that was a lot longer than intended... probably just the images bloating this post up.

Anyway, have a lovely week and I'll get back to you in roughly half a month with new info.
And once more, many thanks to those supporting the project even in between updates. You are the best and you make the project possible on this scale!😘