Proof of Life #145: Almost There

Heya pals and palettes, how's it going? N_Taii here, bringing you another award-winning, awe-inspiring PoL to brighten your day/night! Grab onto your seat, this is going to be wild (or most likely not).

What I will tell you about in this post will seem less impressive than last week's list of completed tasks, but this doesn't mean that what I've done took any less time. Arguably, it took more.

So, you can see what the new main menu screen will look like. It isn't exactly new, but I still wanted to show it off. Please, pay no mind to the double "save" icon, the green one won't be there for the game's demo. Unfortunately, the graphic designer who's reworking the main title screen's commands (New Game, Continue, etc..), got sick and has had to delay the delivery of the last assets, but it's no big deal, it shouldn't take more than 2-3 days now.

Now, for what I've done this week. I've added a whole new scene to the time skip part between the MC's childhood and adulthood, as announced last week. I wanted to add more, but I ended up doing a longer and more complicated scene than I first intended, so I settled down with only one scene. This one not only got a whole new small map, but entirely new designs (outfits and haircuts) for the "teenage version" of Leto, Rose, Cyanna and Lily.

I also added four new freeroam events to the new content (which bring them to a total of 6 freeroam events + a few events with shadows behind windows), and the start of a new mini-story involving a timid male guard and a more fiery childhood friend female guard, which will also end in NTR ; )

Apart from that, I did misc. polishing work by embellishing some of the early maps, fixing bugs and inconsistencies here and there and, most boring thing in the world, I extracted the entire text from HC3 on a Word document, and I'm CTRL+F-ing the heck out of it to uniformize the capitalization of certain terms like king, queen, commander, etc... as well as fixing typos I find. This is made a lot more time-consuming by the fact that, whenever I find something to fix, I've got to remember where the dialogue takes place and on which timeframe so I can go and change it.

Quite frankly, unless I'm terrible at evaluating things, I should be done with everything left within the week (walkthrough, testing everything, proofreading, etc...). The one thing I'm less sure about is the commissions that are still underway, like the teenage version for Lily and Leto that have just started, and the voice acting for the introduction that is being worked on now. Will they be finished within the week as well? We'll see. What's sure is that I'll be doing my best to release the demo as soon as possible and, of course, I'll keep you updated if anything comes up.

Until then, I wish you a wonderful week, and thank you for reading through this lengthy post.

N_Taii