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Veronica and George 8 Part 2 H-CG (Base Colors)

Veronica and George 8 Part 2 H-CG (Sketch)

Project Plan October

September was mostly a month to perform a bunch of the remaining setup work for the remainder of the game, this month we are back to closing out milestones. Our two goals for this month:

• Primary: Finish Judgement of Pride and with that close out the content block for fighting the demon generals outside te final dungeon

• Secondary: Finish up the remaining content on lewd books & skills

Otherwise, it's mostly just general progress, giving us the f...

Star Knightess Aura Release 0.47.0a

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Star Knightess Aura Release 0.47.0

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Veronica and George 8 Part 1 H-CG (Shaded)

Additional assets for the the CG yesterday but for the first part of the Veronica and George 8 scene.

Veronica and George 4 H-CG (Shaded)

Number is different because I had an off-by-one in the scene index. Also some extra close-ups.

2024-09-24 14:48:45 +0000 UTC View Post

Star Knightess Aura 0.47.0-prerelease-3

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Star Knightess Aura Release 0.46.3

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Usual batch of bugfixes. Nothing major to report on I would say.

Changelog 0.46.3 (20.09.2024)

• Allowed player to exit Draknor Fortress floor 2 without having to fight door guard

Balancing

• Multiplied Dolus Fixed Damage by difficulty modifier

• Added probability weight 6 Attack choice to Mutat...

  2024-09-20 16:24:09 +0000 UTC View Post

Veronica and George 3 H-CG (Base Colors)

Veronica and George 3 H-CG (Sketch)

I feel like there are some perspective / anatomy issues in this one. The leg going to the ground feels bit long to me and Veronica's main body and hands a bit small.

Update: 

Star Knightess Aura 0.47.0-prerelease-2

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Star Knightess Aura Release 0.46.2

RIP public releases.

https://aura-dev.itch.io/star-knightess-aura

Last weekend I changed the public version to a demo version (covering the same amount of content as the Steam Demo version, that is until the end of Chapter 1 or the end of the Festival, but with NSFW enabled).

From my previous week of testing out the model of using a demo instead of a full public version, I'm not sure yet on...

Lady Charlotte 2+3 H-CG (Shaded)

Star Knightess Aura Internal Hotfix 0.46.1a

Uh, apparantly all books on NG/NG+ got broken from a bugfix in 0.46.1. :'D

0.46.1a (06.09.2024)

Bugfixes

• Fixed extra readings fix causing -2 readings on new game and new game plus

Star Knightess Aura 0.47.0-prerelease-1

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Star Knightess Aura Internal Release 0.46.1

Usually I would put a note here how the public release will be in two weeks, but I am currently not sure if we will keep having public releases. We have have been struggling a bit since July. The release of the ending brought in a wave of subs but that very quickly ebbed up again. On the other hand, my statistics show that our player base is still growing enormously.

Last month we maaged to break through 1k concurrent players, which is a huge number. For comparison Baldur's Gate 3 has 7...

Charlotte 2+3 H-CG (Base Colors)

Charlotte 2+3 H-CG (Sketch)

Project Plan September

In the last dev week of August we started on the development of Chapter 3-C and that's right where we will be picking up. Whereas previous months all focused on clearing out milestones and reaching the corruption ending, we are now back to build up work, this time for the good ending.

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Pixel Art Focus Poll

We have covered most of the pixel art changes that are important to me. There are of course still various little mismatches between various sprites, but I would say most aren't that big, especially considering how costly the pixel art is. In the main cast, the most notable one is probably Richard's character sprite whose costume doesn't quite match his 2D art.

In this poll I would like to determine if we keep working on character sprites for the main cast or if we move on to the next co...

Star Knightess Aura Internal Release 0.46.0

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Aura and Patricia Pixel Art Update

Aura's cursed form now has dedicated pixel art that matches her 2D Art.

Finally, Patricia is the last girl on Earth whose sprite was mismatched with her 2D art which is now also fixed. I think it looks ama...

1300 Patrons!

Apparantly at some point we crossed the 1300 Patron threshold! Thanks for supporting, everyone!

Some days ago I also updated the investment plan for the next milestone at 7500€ which currently looks like this:

• 100€ -> Mapping Assistant

• 100€ -> RPGMaker Dev Assistant

• 50€ -> Writing Assistant

• 50€ -> General Assets Bucket

The focus is currently is less on buying us more from our freelancers and...

Star Knightess Aura 0.46.0-prerelease-4

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Star Knightess Aura Public Release 0.45.4

Grab the latest release at:

https://aura-dev.itch.io/star-knightess-aura

After a lot of bugfixes over the past weeks both for the major new Demon-crazy quest and because a lot of players replayed the game to watch the Corruption endings, the number of bugreports seemed to have petered out a bit for this release----Just in time for the next major release in one week I guess. :'D

Changelog 0....

2024-08-23 16:01:22 +0000 UTC View Post

Mid Term Roadmap Update 3

With the completion of the epilogue as of the latest prerelease, we have completed Chapter 3-B! Let's take a look what the overall standing of the project is at the current state and what our current progress speed means for the 1.0 release date.

First of all, let's take a look at Chapter 3 only.

Usually, the baseline for a quarter dev cycle is 10 months for this project, but based on th...

UI/UX Iteration Mockups

*Note that in the following there might be some not relevant differences in the updated mockups since some of them are based on old stuff like the message box in the mockups is 4 lines high but in the game it will remain 3 as it is

It's been a while since we have done some UI stuff but I believe I have identified some low-hanging fruit by now that can improve the playing experience for a reasonable amount of implementational effort.

I asked our UI artist to come up with i...

Star Knightess Aura 0.46.0-prerelease-3

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Star Knightess Aura Public Release 0.45.3

Grab the latest release at:

https://aura-dev.itch.io/star-knightess-aura

Public Release! Lots of fixes for Demon-crazy once again and then also a variety bunch of other bugfixes.

0.45.3 (16.08.2024)

• None

Balancing

• Increased Truthmaker Page price to 10k

Bugfixes

• Fixed typos

• Fixed incorrect Hermann...

  2024-08-16 15:41:28 +0000 UTC View Post