MAJOR UPDATE: National Park Girls Episode 5

Hey everyone, Syon here! 

It’s been a long time coming, and I really appreciate your patience, so I’m very excited to be giving you all our first big National Park Girls episode 5 update in a long, long while! 

As you may or may not know, the writing for NPG 5 has been done for well over a year. I thought that would translate to a much quicker release time, since it was all drafted before the release of episode 4, but unfortunately we had some major roadblocks when it came to art. Satchel got extremely busy in this last year, and unfortunately that meant there was a solid 12 month period where art just didn’t get done. These were for reasons outside of our or Satchel’s control, and honestly just part of the hazards of running a small team. 

Thankfully, our friend Adirosa from Studio Elan stepped in. 

If you remember, sometime ago, I posted sketches for the new sprite outfits in episode 5. All we had were the sketches. But Adi, who is an absolute godsend, lined and colored those sketches, and ultimately, ended up completely finishing the new outfits. Check ‘em out!

We are so grateful for Adi’s help. We’d be in a lot worse of a position without her, and she has our deep thanks. 

That’s not all, however! Soon after Adi turned in the sprites, Satchel was able to return to working on CGs, and within a matter of days we had sketches for every single CG. I don’t want to spoil them all for you, but here’s a sneak peek of one of them!

And finally, we have all our VAs scheduled, or in the process of being scheduled for sessions. Yosemite has been recorded for a year, and as of the day I'm posting this, we just finished recording all of Zion's lines. 

So yeah, we suddenly went from not having a lot of progress to report, to a ton of it! And with all this progress, I feel comfortable in finally giving an estimate for NPG 5’s release date. 

Q1 2023. 

In fact, we there's a very, very good chance we'll be able to announce a proper release date later this month...

There’s a lot of things that could happen in the meantime, but with the boost of progress and resources (more on that in October), National Park Girls is looking to finally be reaching the end of its development cycle. 

I hope you’ll bear with us a little longer! The next few months are going to be extremely, extremely eventful. More than you know. 

- Syon