Hi everyone! Time for this month's wrap up and devlog.

So let us begin.

Summary:

• Released Chapter 5/Episode 3
• Made some (a lot of) accessibility improvements
• Started work on Chapter 6
  • Wil's expressions
  • Side character expressions
  • Bonus scenes
• Some new sprite stuff
• The LAST background art

In the biggest news of course I released Episode 3...aka Chapter 5, which you all already know. 

Since I'll be sticking with single chapter updates going forward, I will simply refer to the updates as "Chapter X" instead of "Episode X"  At this point it's a little less confusing since the episode numbers don't coincide any more with the chapters.

If you haven't seen it, consider responding to our Character Survey, which is just asking your thoughts about the characters and your theories and stuff like that:

Character Survey (Google form)

Art

Well, aside from (of course) finishing up the art for the last episode I also have done a few small sprite related additions and I received the final BG for this game.

The backgrounds have been a journey since I initially was hoping to maybe use a slightly different BG style - just for a change of pace. But it did not really work out and I had to revert back to artists I'm familiar with and have the BGs redone.

And then I had to have some of them redone again.

It's been an adventure.

Those are finally complete.

Very glad about that.

Coding and Other

So I mentioned in previous updates that I made some accessibility improvements. These were largely focused on improving how the default self-voicing was interfacing with the UI in the game.

Unfortunately sometimes the text-to-speech just doesn't read things in ways that are expected. It refuses to read text that is definitely there waiting to be read, it reads things in a weird order, it reads things twice, etc etc.

I have been going through and fixing a lot of that as well as trying to find anything that is purely visual and needs text.

I've also been adding some description oriented glossary articles for the people and places. 

And doing some other things like that.

In addition to all of that I have been coding Wil's sprite expressions through Chapter 6. With those out of the way I've started to work on the side characters in that chapter as well.

Writing

I've started working on the POV scenes that will go out with Chapter 6. These scenes are actually based around Chapter 5 events and revolve around the love interest's thoughts about what happened between them and Wil on the planet's surface.

I have Asher's first draft done and will be moving on to work on the rest of the characters in the upcoming weeks.

Upcoming Month

I will be focused on sprite expressions and POV scene for the next couple of weeks at least. 

There are no CGs in this chapter so after I finish with expressions I'll probably work on the two new sprites I need. And beyond that....it'll be flowchart and stuff like that.

So yeah. Not sure how far along I'll be by the next update here.

Chapter 6 is a bit shorter than the last chapter and then Chapter 7 is a monster by comparison (more than twice as long actually)

Chapter 6 is a bit of a 'calm before the storm' chapter for the plot and....honestly for me since Chapter 7 will be way harder to work on. 

Anyway, that's all for now. I will see you guys next month!