National Park Girls Update - Bear With Us A Little Longer

Hey everyone, Syon here. 

Sorry for going so long without an update. It's been a very quiet couple of months. 

Rest assured, National Park Girls Episode 5 is still in development, so let me put any concerns to rest. Unfortunately, development is stalled at the moment. This is mostly due to the art situation. Satchely, in addition to being the artist on the project, has a fulltime job that occupies a lot of her time. This has prevented her from working on NPG as much as she had in the past. The good news is, at the end of May, Satchely will be leaving her job and starting her journey as a fulltime artist! She's assured me that once this occurs she'll be diving back into National Park Girls. In the past, she's gotten her work done very quickly, so once she gets going, I'm sure she'll get the remaining work turned in quickly. 

As mentioned in previous posts, the writing is basically done. I had a whole first draft finished over a year ago. Since then, however, we've decided to make a few tweaks. Namely, to Yellowstone and Zion's subplot within the episode. These changes are being written by our programmer, Kari! It'll be the first time since Episode 2 that a writer other than me has written canon NPG material, and she's doing a great job! Kari has a firm grasp on the characters and loves them with all her art. I've been delighted by the material she's turned in. She has one more scene to go. And once that's done, I'll be continuing to record with the voice actors. 

Please forgive the slow development cycle of Episode 5. It really was my intention to get this out early in the year, but situations outside my control kept pushing it back. I'm sorry. I'm confident that it's going to be released. I just can't give you an exact estimate on it yet. National Park Girls is made by a small team where every moving part is vital. And while we could hire other artists or scale back our plans for Episode 5, I really want to finish it with the team we have and the ideas we've planned. It is by far the biggest episode (twice as long as most episodes!) and is paying off everything the story has been building up to for the last three years. I want it to be as special as it can possibly be and send off the characters I love so much on a high note. Thank you for your pateince. Please just wait a little longer. I promise it will be worth it. 

But just because National Park Girls is stalled, doesn't mean Coattails is! In fact, we have three projects currently in development! 

One of them is a completely new and original story I'm writing. It's something that's been kicking around in my head for a while, so I'm happy to finally be getting around to it. Not only that, but I'm happy to be writing again after taking a break. We have a logo designed (not revealing it yet) and I'm about 25k words into the first draft. Maybe we'll announce it once we have some finished art and a draft of the story that's closer to finished. But until then, you'll have to wait a 

I can't talk about any of them just yet, but you'll be hearing about one of them later this month. In fact, you might already be familiar with it...