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Weekly report 21

Hi everybody.

I hope you're all doing great.

We're back to work and have started planning the next release. 

Here are a couple of updates:

Planning phase:

Like what we did for the previous update, we'll take about a week to plan the next release: outline the story, come up with quests, draw storyboards, write spit drafts, and estimate the number of tasks.

Myrtle's story:

Although ...

A fan art

Hi everybody.

Here's a fan art that Chestnut has made of one of Mortze and Tlaero's characters. 

We played their game Life Changes for Keeley together, and Chestnut liked Claryse (and hence the fan art).

I hope you enjoy it.

Cheers!

P.S. this was meant to be a public post, but since Claryse took her clothes off and Patreon is not a fan of that, we limited it...

A few wallpapers from 0.3

Hi everybody.

We hope you've all played the latest version of the game (found here) and have enjoyed it.

As we did previously, we're attaching a few of the artworks used in this release as wallpapers.

Chestnut and I will be taking a few days off, and we'll start working on 0.4 from 2020-09-24.

We also want to start getting feedback on what you think of the 0.3 content. This poll w...

0.3 download links + release notes

 Hi everybody.

I hope you're ready to play What a Legend 0.3 and are as excited as we are. 

Thank you to all of you who've supported us during these months of development -- we wouldn't have been able to work on this project full-time as we did without you.

PC (Mega) - 0.3.01 

2020-09-20 20:19:04 +0000 UTC View Post

Weekly report 20

Hi everybody.

This will be our last report before the release of the 0.3 update. 

The conversation on our Discord server this week has been dominated by the deadline. Many of you have shown support by saying you understand that things might go wrong in development and justified delays, as long as they better the game and are not the result of developers' neglect, are acceptable. Still others have been understandably bitter about the situation. 

We want t...

Avatars - 0.3

Hi everybody.

Many of you have sent us your avatars to be included in the next update, and we wanted to show them to you before the release. 

Please note that the avatars in the book are sorted first by the total amount contributed and then alphabetically. 

Send us a message here on Patreon or on Discord (Pistachio):

- If we have made a mistake in your avatar, name, or the optional text
- If you would like to change your name, avatar, or optiona...

Drawing footage - a short frame-animation

Hi everybody.

Here's a video showing Chestnut creating a short animation frame-by-frame. We've never shared something like this before, and we'll see how you like it.

This animation is from one of the upcoming cutscenes.
Except the last couple of seconds, the rest of the video is at x4 speed.

Enjoy

Weekly report 19

Hi everybody.

I hope you're all doing well and are ready for the weekend.

We've been working super hard on the 0.3 release, and are excited to share our progress and say what we've been up to:

Crystal in the bag:

We've completed both the code and the art for a new small event that will allow you to have the crystal ball in the bag.

This event will set off as soon as you go to use the crystal ball. You will not be losing the ...

Drawing footage - hidden photo (short)

Hi everybody.

Here's a video of Chestnut drawing a piece of one of the hidden photos. This is a work-in-progress image. We'll leave the final result for you to find in the game. 

This video is at x5 speed and you can find its extended version (about 19 mins) here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41315319

Hope you'll like it. 
Cheers

Drawing footage - hidden photo (extended)

Hi everybody.

Here's a video of Chestnut drawing a piece of one of the hidden photos. This is a work-in-progress image. We'll leave the final result for you to find in the game. 

This video is at x5 speed.

Hope you'll like it. 

Cheers

Weekly report 18

Hi everybody.

Here's an outline of what we've been up to this week:

Art:

Chestnut has been working on cutscenes, trying to finish some of the more complicated ones. She'll complete these and then go for the final sex scene and edits.

Edit/Debug:

I've been doing a lot of editing this week. Now the text reads smoothly and is free of spelling errors. I'll still need to give it another pass or two (during the te...

Future changes + a clarification

Hi everybody.

It's the end of the month, and some of you will be considering renewing your subscriptions, and others may be weighing the option of becoming a patron. Whichever is your case, we're going to be making a few changes for 0.4 onward, and since these changes will take effect from the middle of the month, we thought it's only fair that you know what you'll support before you pledge.

The changes are as follows:

Breaks:

We'...

Video - Holly's cutscene (short)

Hi there.

Here's footage of Holly from one of our upcoming cutscenes. Please note that this is not the final result, and the art is very much at a work-in-progress state.

This video is at x5 speed.
An extended 21 min version of this footage can be seen here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/40996444

Cheers

Video - Holly's cutscene (extended)

Hi there.

Here's footage of Holly from one of our upcoming cutscenes. Please note that this is not the final result, and the art is very much at a work-in-progress state.

This video is at x5 speed.

Cheers

Status update + weekly report 17

Hi everybody.

It's the last report of the month, and we want to keep you up to date with the latest status of the game.

Release date

We had said earlier that we'd like to release 0.3 on the first weekend of September. However, that date is not going to be enough as there's still more work left to do. Our new deadline is the 20th of September. We're confident that we'll finish the release before that date, but w...

Teaser: Celestina, the matchmaker

Hi everybody.

Here's a first look at Celestina's sprite. She's a matchmaker who lives in the village and plays an important role as Holly's antagonist in 0.3.

• Exterior of her house: https://www.patreon.com/posts/39888853
• Interior of her house: https://www.patreon.com/posts/40881030

Chestn...

Sketches - the matchmaker's living room

Hi everybody.

Here's the artwork for the inside of Celestina's house. 

We're not going to be exploring her other rooms (in this release) but her living room features in a cutscene and several important events during the story.

We hope you'll like it.

Cheers

Weekly report 16

Hi everybody.

Here's an outline of our work this week:

Art:

Chestnut has finished all sprite gestures and expressions that we deemed necessary for posing. She has also completed new splash artworks (see one spoiled here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/spoiler-new-0-3-40491183). The bulk of her work this week, however, has consisted of drawing cutscenes. S...

0.3 Teaser - announcement board

Hi everybody.

Here's a small teaser from the upcoming release.

We used to have a lot of fun playing Warcraft and going to the quest-giving announcement boards. So we wanted to put our own version of it in WaL. This one won't be giving any quests, though, at least for now.

We removed one of the announcements pinned to the board's top-right part because it was a bit of a spoiler. Hint: it will only appear if you have finished the 0.2 content.

Cheers...

Weekly report 15

Hi everybody.

We hope you're having a great day. 

A small --and irrelevant-- piece of news is that today is our wedding anniversary. We originally planned to skip working today and spend the whole day with our families, but there's too much to do, so we'll keep proper celebrations for after 0.3 release.

Here's this week's report:

Art:

Chestnut has been working very hard on cutscenes. She has done several of the smaller ones (for e...

Clarification about Patreon fees

Hi all.

We have a quick clarification about our tier pricing.

If you are from countries that require VAT or GST, you might have noticed an increase in the tier fees shown on our Patreon page.

We want to clarify that: 

• The price now includes VAT or GST.
• You were already charged this amount before. It is only that Patreon now shows the final price rather than calculating them at the checkout.
• 2020-08-12 12:07:30 +0000 UTC View Post

The making of a scene - Abe's piggyback

 Hi everybody.

In 0.3 we have a scene where the MC gives a piggyback ride to Holly's grandpa, happening in either an afternoon or an evening.

It has the characters in the foreground with the background moving in a loop. We experimented with different layers of background images moving at varying speeds. 

It's a short but important scene in the game and we wanted...