Saturday Devlog (July 10)

Hi everyone, hope you're staying safe and healthy, and happy Saturday once again!

Lots of exciting things are happening in the art department! There wasn't a lot of interest for the Patron Tweets feature this month, so for now that segment has been replaced with a new feature that places the characters in spoofs of other IFs! Of the options given last month (Heroes Fall, Brain Blocked, Twilight Chronicles, Cream of the Crop, and Zombie Migration, wink wink), Zombie Migration had a slight lead with 8 votes compared to Twilight Chronicles and Cream of the Crop's 7. This means that you'll get to see the White Fangs as zombie apocalypse survivalists! The artist for this feature has already begun working on it, and the first drafts look very promising. :D

In the character art department, Flyss is in the flat-color phase and should be posted sometime before the next devlog. I'm also aiming for Tahlia being completed this month, which would mean that the entire main cast will have received their portraits! Beyond that, where our portrait commissions goes next could go one of three ways: White Fangs pre-resurrection, other NPCs, or phantasma. An Arcanist poll will be held near the end of the month to decide between the three.

Lastly, I've also commissioned chapter headers from Angie (who did our codex headers and icons), and they look brilliant! We're currently in the process of making them a bit more PC- and dark mode-friendly, but here's a sneak peek of what it looks like right now:

I don't know about you, but I'm feeling mighty excited about this one. x)

On the writing front: I've had a lot of ideas of how to transform the arc over the course of my hiatus, and I've pieced and edited most of them together into a coherent storyboard. It's a bit less novel of an arc than what I had planned for initially (a closed-room murder whodunnit), but is ultimately something that is much more in my wheelhouse. I've churned out 5k words this week to start out with, as I'm really trying to pace myself - I hope to steadily increase my weekly wordcount as we progress through the month.

 This week's sneak peek will go up soon after this post! And sometime over the next week, I'll also be uploading a poll for the side story--I'm waiting for requests from Arcanists to roll in right now, but failing that we can recycle the May side story prompts!

That about wraps it up for today's devlog. As always, thank you for supporting the development of A Mage Reborn!