March Devlog (with video)

Lost In Saunia

-F&S Sprites: 8 Sprites done this month! Most of the game will take place in Saunia, but the intro scenes and some flashbacks take place in the normal sauna. It was a lot of fun to update the designs and feel out what they're like in my style. Stella, Riley, and Cuddles will make appearances too, they're just not in this first scene.

-Updated comic engine: The game engine for displaying dynamic comic pages now has multiple settings that can handle different image sizes and screen resolutions. I'll be honest, this won't change much for players but it'll go miles to streamline my dev process.

-Background/Splashes: I don't have any more that are polished enough to share, but I made some progress on additional backgrounds. I included a WIP of riley on a bucket to show how I'm using blender to 3d model the layouts

-Continued map design and worldbuilding: I spent a lot of time this month gathering references for different fantasy biomes and laying them out on the map. There's a couple partially done backgrounds that I'm very excited to show you all soon.

I hinted at this in my last devlog, but I've been bouncing around to another project as well! I'm excited to reveal "Visionary: Redux". For those who don't know, this is a project I worked on for a while but put down because I was unsatified with my artistic skill at the time. Now that I have more practice I'm ready to take another crack at it.

This updated take on Visionary will be presented as a timeline of scenes from different character's perspectives. As you read through each scene, additional ones will unlock, sometimes earlier and sometimes later in the timeline. Sometimes you may even see the same scene through the eyes of someone new.

-Style Experiments: The goal is to have each character's perspective told through a distinct style. I intend to be more loose and expressionist with a lot of the imagery. Attached is an experiment in Oscar's style, which will be digital painting.

-Twine Timeline Layout: I included a WIP of my timeline for the game! It's heavily blurred to avoid spoilers. I know this looks like a detective's corkboard covered in string, but I promise it all makes sense!

-Scene Writing: The scenes marked in orange are fully written, and there are plenty more partially done. I've really enjoyed changing the narrative voice as different characters hold the camera.

Next month I'll be continuing to work on visuals for and engine for both Lost in Saunia and Visionary Redux. Now that I'm back in the saddle and making visual art again, I'm ready to begin keeping a more regular work schedule. I'm so excited for these projects, and every day there are less hurdles keeping me from working on them! Thank you all for your support, it truly means so much to me.