Pearly Salon Devblog #5 : Story development

Hello everyone,

It's been since I did post any significant updates on Pearly Salon, coz I've been mostly resting the past week.

But that doesnt mean I have been idle on it development, most of it have been focused on writing the story.

Prologue and Chapter 1 in progress

As of now, the writing process on my part is like 70% done, but perhaps I can give a gist of what its about,

The Prologue will be a short flashback chapter basically covers Pearly's origin before she becomes the lady she is today. It will also introduce basic mechanics of the gameplay, sort of like Tutorial part 1

Then Chapter 1 will take us back to the present, with current era Pearly with her newly open shop. This chapter will cover other mechanics, namely the customer serving mechanics, basically Tutorial part 2, and there will be some goals to reach that is meant to proceed towards the next chapter, but of course, the game can be set in free mode of sort if Chapter 1 is completed, a temporary thing.

As for how many chapters I planned, that is something I can't say, but each chapter should introduce something new until I decided whats the "endgame" would be, but that is still a while away for now.

More Assets

For the prologue especially, there will be some one-off assets I need to make first, as well as some graphics for future characters to appear in the coming chapters.

A fuller view of school girl Pearly's portrait and her sprites

The mystery character that will debut in the prologue. Who is she and what's her role in Pearly's Salon?

There's some more I wanna show but I really dont wanna spoil too much just yet.

Other Development

Besides working on the Prologue and Chapter 1, I'm still working on some other features and assets that I need to implement to the base system, such as the chair turnaround to see the backside.

Though it is pretty much almost double the workload having to draw the related assets to fit with these but there is a big reason why I'm doing this feature.

So yeah, just stuffs that I need to put as much I can before the next version of the demo, as reasonably as possible.

More to come in next week's update, so I hope you all can wait for it a while longer.