ExtraColonist Progress Update 1!

We've made some really amazing progress these past few weeks for the project and are super excited to share that with you all! ✨

After we opened our applications to join Team Seraphic, we were able to discover and recruit super talented individuals to join our ranks. From artists, to composers, coders, writers and more! So we are able to speed up project progress overall and make something even more amazing for this beautiful game and community. We want to thank everyone who applied, and we really appreciate everyone who took the time out of their day to do so 💖

Before the progress notes, we just as a team wanted to give our sincerest thanks to everyone who has supported us whether that be chatting in our Discord, sharing our posts or sharing our love for IWATE! We wanted to give a special shout out to the super kind lovely people who have supported us on Patreon and Boosted our Discord server, we can't thank you enough for your kindness:

Lonely Ghoul

SolarEclipse

Xander

Remedy

Eris Parker

Vesely

Space Candy

• Child Calli sprites complete

• Litchi Child sprites complete

• Calli Character doc complete

• Calli Story doc complete

• Completed 2 Calli full screen arts

• Completed 3 Ast sprite event arts

• Completed 1 Ast full screen art event

• Advertised in some Discords

• Went through and accepted Team applications

• Completed 3 emojis for the Discord

• Completed Patreon Archangel tier doodle

• Adult Calli Sprites complete

• Teen Calli Sprites complete

• Child Ely Sprites complete

• Teen Ely Sprites complete

• Adult Ely Sprites complete

• Vert all Sprites complete

• Teen Axel Sprites complete

• Adult Axel Sprites complete

• Created test cards for physical card game expansion

• Asteria Adult sprites complete

• Asteria story document completed ready for event writing

• Made ExtraColonist shortened Logo

• Created group name Seraphic

• Created Seraphic Mascot

• Created Seraphic Logo and Design Document

• Created shortened Logo for Seraphic

• Created Seraphic branding background

• Created Seraphic Discord Server - roles, channels, permissions, setting up bots etc

• Created custom Seraphic emotes

• Created custom Seraphic branding like dividers etc

• Created Seraphic User Template for Patreon

• Adding Seraphic members to template and Patreon as they send me their profile pics

• Created card template for Poayo's ExtraColonist Cards as well as all cards

• Created Seraphic Patreon, all tiers, designs and integrations with Discord

• Created Calli reveal and post for Patreons

• Setup Tumblr Account

• Setup Instagram Account

• Setup Reddit Account

• Completed layout design of first public post of Poayo's art

• Setup about channel on Discord

• Setup ticket bot for people to submit applications to the team

• First post made to Reddit/Tumblr/Instagram/Patreon advertising

• Setup Discord recruitment event

• Went through and discussed Team applications

• Created new icons for Discord and set them up with roles

• Discussed and created Team roles with Poyao

• Post made to Reddit/Tumblr/Instagram/Patreon/Discord sprite reveal

•  Completed custom character being able to become a childhood friend mechanic

• Completed loading in sprites into the game

• Added Custom Gears

• Pronouns can now change with each life stage (Child/Teen/Adult)

• Fixed likes and dislikes of characters being handled inappropriately

• Fixed game breaking bug preventing resting (may need a fresh install if character exo files have been previously edited)

• Fixed cards not working whilst using the mod (may need a fresh install if character exo files have been previously edited)

• Fixed custom characters not appearing after a rest (no longer a need to save and reload)

• Fixed character dialogue clouds not disappearing

• Fixed characters not appearing correctly

• Custom characters can now be clicked on

• Experimental tweaks to make characters spawn more frequently (hopefully)

• Compatibility with other character mods (hopefully)

• CUSTOM CHARACTERS NOW DIE

• Characters are loaded correctly between menu and ingame

• Custom music can now be added to seasons

• Custom music can be played in character dialogue, can also be excluded from playing in seasons

• Characters spawning in expeditions

• Glow season support

• Mapped 320 of the 859 events in the game, noting backgrounds, characters, and available ages

• Documentation: "how to find and read exocolonist exo files" completed

• Event names gathered into a single spreadsheet for tracking purposes

• Wrote outline for Rin

• Wrote greetings for Rin

• Wrote 10 and 20 heart events for Rin

• Created new character, Elysium (Ely)

• Started playing the game itself

• Downloaded Visual Studio and began experimenting with the code

• Assisted in the creation of Pinterest boards

•  Drafted outlines for a few side characters

• Finished sprites needed for a side character for the demo

• Created new character, Acceleration (Axel)

• Outlined all of Axel’s heart events

• Began rough drafts of his heart events

• Began rough drafts of Calli’s heart events

• Created new character, Genesis (Gene)

• Fully fleshed out character outline + Greetings for Gene

• Outlined all of Gene’s heart events

• Finished fleshing out Gene’s major heart events (100, 50, and 90)

• Working on minor redesigns for Gene

• Finished Music track "Fathom"

  

• Completed Senior China Sprites

• Finished 2 art pieces for cards