Hello, Students!
It hasn't been all that long since our last update, but a lot has happened since then so I figured it was worth giving a little update. First off casting has officially opened up! The goal was to have 15 roles ready we hit 13, which really has caught me all up on my work. Which is weird, but we'll talk more about that in a minute. I also created an FAQ page in regards to casting questions. PSA has gotten quite the boost in attention recently so it felt like a good idea for an FAQ page to exist now. The casting call has only been out 3 days and I've already got plenty of submissions which is great and a lot of really, really incredible actors. I'm so pumped. Because we've grown so fast I've done a couple live streams over on my personal Twitch talking about the game and they also continue to be more successful each time thanks to everyone! The last one I really tried to show off a ton of stuff and talk about things I'd never get to normally.
Recently we did take a hit production wise as we lost our background artist, meaning the roughly 10 backgrounds we had done, are now useless so we have to start all over again. Thankfully we've found a new artist and will jump right back into production on those and it seems like it will actually progress at a lot quicker, or at least a more consistent pace. So that's really the biggest update, but let's get into that small stuff.
Updates:
Taurus Bull's route, ending, and bio completed.
Danny-Boy's VA revealed, welcome back Adam!
Eldrin's VA revealed, welcome back too Luca!
Fenrir's route completed.
Dimitar's ending written.
Emelia's route completed.
Daniel and Robert's route worked on.
Dimitar's route completed.
Taurus' bio written.
Taurus' ending written.
Started thinking up in-game achievements.
Needs to Be Completed:
Daniel/Robert route needs to be completed.
Robert's ending needs to be written.
Daniel's ending needs to be written.
Elandorr's VA needs to be revealed.
Thetis' route needs to be completed.
"Gym Rat Event" needs to be completed.
Wepawet's route needs to be completed.
Rory's route needs to be completed.
Backgrounds need to be restarted.
Current Tasks:
Daniel's route.
Robert's route.
Wepawet's route.
Slag's events/route.
General mechanics.
Rory's route.
Emelia's ending.
So that's where we're at. I had mentioned before about being all caught up and how it was a little weird. And I wanted to elaborate on that at the end here. Since the start of this project, I've been sort of playing catch up, artwork was being done faster than I could create. Which meant I ended up with all these characters I need to create things for because their artwork was done, but now all that reminds are 3 characters 2 of which I know won't be done for a while yet due to how they are going to be implemented into the story. Which means there's really only one. For so long now I always sort of had a guide to go off of, now not so much it's just kind of like, "well whatever I want I guess..." So I'm not sure how things will progress moving forward. Once I finish Wepawet's route and Emelia's ending that's it, I kind of don't really have a set path. My plan is to try and focus on the characters with speaking roles in the book that way I can ensure the audiobook comes out as soon as possible, but we'll see what happens. Plus another factor is the war between Ukraine and Russia. My artist NASTRpank is a Russian citizen so it really affects the pace in which they can put out artwork; so we're really in this sort of rocky period now. The hope is we just keep moving albeit slower on the artwork front, but who can really say? So yeah there might end up a dry spell of reveals or very inconsistent timings for them. I may just stop them for a minute which sucks since we just started "wave 2" but I may stop them so I can stock pile them and in the meantime we'll focus on VA reveals, maybe some like, "scene concepts" as I dubbing them, and maybe some classroom reveals. Hard to say, but thanks for sticking with me and I guess we'll see what happens. For now, that's all folks!
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