Hi everyone! Time for this week's update.
Worked on Sprite Expressions
Got Wil's expressions done for Ch3 - the LI scenarios.
Started on Wil's expressions for Ch4
Finished up the Daaz CG
Started on a Raif CG
Got a new set of BGs
Writing
Worked on fleshing out and fully out...
2024-10-20 01:10:08 +0000 UTC View Post
With Episode 1 in "early access" and set to release later next week to the public, I have already been hard at work on Episode 2 content.
Because the public build isn't created yet (just in case there are last minute bugs anyone reports), I've been trying to focus on work that either doesn't have to be added yet (like CGs) or that is easy to remove (sprite expressions, for example. Because those files are already coded to be excluded fr...
2024-10-17 01:47:29 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone! Time for this week's update.
Finished Sprite Staging
Including adding Raif and Yren's eye colours
Started on CGs
Finished one of Kav's CGs
Started on one of Daaz's CGs
Started on sprite expressions
Coded Wil's expressions for the Ch 3 common route
Ari has effectively won the recent poll for artwork but in the meantime I finished up this in-progress piece I had of Asher. I'll be doing the Ari one next!
No real point or purpose to this one other than making Asher look pretty. LoL
You can find a couple of cropped variations and sizes attached!
As usual, it's a more abstract background because I can't be bothered to draw proper environments for character art like this. Ha ...
2024-10-08 00:55:49 +0000 UTC View PostAnd here are the questions and answers for this month's Q&A! Thanks to all the askers!
Are there going to be spicy CGs in When Stars Collide? 👀
I think I've been asked this before and every time I say...
I still don't know how spicy they are going to be. LoL! 🤣
I've done a few test sketches and still haven't made my mind up. They won't be explicit, I know that much. It will all come dow...
2024-10-07 23:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone! Time for this week's update. It's been a bit of a crazy week (and I've lost all sense of time so I completely did not realise that today was Sunday.
Error Fixes
Released Early Access to Yellow Tea and Up
More work on Episode 2
Writing new glossary entries
Sprite staging
New SFX
Hello Everyone!
The time has come. 👀👀
This is the post with the link to the "early access" of Episode 1.
Below you can find the link to access the Patreon early access build for When Stars Collide.
This build is only available to the Yellow Tea and above tiers at Patreon. No one else has access to this link.
And now here i...
2024-10-04 13:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone. In the next month, I'll be doing another character art/wallpaper art and here, you can vote on the character!
I put all my characters in a randomiser and these were the six winners. So they get to be in the selection poll for a random character artwork.
(I just thought it would be fun to let everyone vote on an artwork this month instead of me just drawing whoever I want. I find certain characters more fun to draw so...
Hi everyone! Today starts the beginning of our next Q&A.
Just like before, I'll take questions for a week and then go through them and post all the answers.
As before, you can send questions about:
characters
character reactions
lore
game stuff
game development
future releases
writing/art methods
etc
Helloo everyone! Time for this week's update! 👀 Let's jump in!
Sent out beta to the Black Tea tier members
Lots of error fixes
Preliminary work on Episode 2
Bonus story planning
In terms of writing, this week I spent some time planning out future bonus scenes in more detail.
I don't know that I'm going to have bonus...
2024-09-28 05:57:39 +0000 UTC View PostHelloooo~o everyone! Time for this week's update! 👀
Let's jump in!
Finished Asher playtest
Finished the remaining CGs
Sent limited beta version to a couple of people
Bug smooshing
This week I mostly finished up working on the remaining CGs and got them coded in.
I mentioned las...
2024-09-22 05:21:10 +0000 UTC View PostHello my lovely Black Tea members! Below you can find the link to access the Patreon beta build for When Stars Collide.
This build is only available to the Black Tea tier of Patreon. No one else has access to this link.
And now here is some info you need about this build. Please be sure to read this because it will save you and me time.
Hello everyone! Time for this week's update! Some cool updates this week! Let's jump in!
Finished Daaz playtest
Started Asher playtest
Finished Cim sprite art
Coded Cim sprite
Some QoL fixes to various screens
Finished up flowchart screen
Finished setting up flowchart activation through Ch2
Made correcti...
2024-09-15 01:07:21 +0000 UTC View PostA collection of short 1 - 2 minute clips from Chapter Two.
2024-09-08 00:30:01 +0000 UTC
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01/09/2024
Ramble
Hellooo~ooo everyone! Time for this week's update! Some cool updates this week!
Let's jump in!
Started Daaz's play test
Finished the flowchart for Chapter 2
Coded the expressions through the bonus scenes
Fixed some features on the flowchart screen
Fixed some other lurking bugs
Have a sneak peek at the first 10 minutes of Chapter Two.
This clip shows Wil waking up and ruminating on their situation, then joining the rest of the crew for their first breakfast together.
Chapter Two is very much a chapter of "everyone gets to know everyone else" so there's a fair amount of back story sharing and various characters expressing interest in and learning a bit about others.
2024-09-08 00:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostRamble
Hello everyone! Time for this week's update! Some cool updates this week!
Let's jump in!
Finished Kav's playthrough
Coded all of Asher's expressions
Coded all of Daaz's expressions
Coded all of Noel's expressions
Worked on the flowcharts...
The big feature of this week is the flowcha...
2024-09-01 03:47:22 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone! Time for this week's update!
Let's jump in!
Finished Noel's playthrough
Started Kav's playthrough
Finally got the colour slider in the game with the help of Windchimes who was slightly traumatised by Wil's teeth.
Worked on the guide for reasons
Coded all of Wil's expressions through Chapter 2
New Music ro...
2024-08-25 03:39:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Just tossing out a quick wallpaper I did with Noel. No reason for it other than I wanted to get in some practice with his face. I'm including several sizes and cropped versions for ya.
It's nice to have time to do some extra art for this game because it really helps ensure I can draw these characters more accurately when I'm able to draw them for more than just the game art.
Side note - but Noel's pants were not going to be shiny....
2024-08-21 02:22:07 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone! Time for this week's update!
Let's jump in!
Worked on the guide again
Finished Raif's playthrough
Lots of fixes
Affinity metres
Started on Noel's playthrough
Started Noel's CG
Finished Yren's bonus scene
Started on Noel's CG and final...
2024-08-18 04:41:04 +0000 UTC View PostHellooo~ooo everyone! Time for this week's update! Though it's a day late because I forgot to post it yesterday even though it was fully written up. ╰(*°▽°*)╯
Let's jump in!
More script fixes
Started sprite expressions
Worked on the premium guide
Worked on Raif's playtest
Worked on CGs
Worked on bonus scenes
The final part of the Q&A talking about various challenges and takeaways from working on this game...SO FAR.
How much harder did you find it to offer 4 body types?
Honestly it depends on what you're referring to.
Writing wise - not that much harder. There are small variations in a few places, depending what sprite body you have, what no...
And here we have the second part of the long Q&A.
Here I will address play style and what I think it will be like to play this game as compared to my others. And I will talk about some of the features and things you can expect to encounter.
Let's go!
Is Wil a "self-insert" or player surrogate character?
So I consider "self inserting" a play styl...
2024-08-07 00:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone! And welcome to the start of the Q&A of doom.
Yes. Doom.
There is a lot of doom below in fact. You should beware.
(I'm just kidding. but anyone who has known me for two seconds knows that I cannot give simple answers. I'm sorry.)
I have taken questions from whoever had questions to ask and I shall do my best to answer them here. This is a pretty long Q&A so...I've broken it into questions about t...
2024-08-07 00:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone! Time for this week's update!
Let's get into it.
A ton of small script fixes (mostly minor wording fixes and/or changes)
Got MC's expressions set up on the menus for the first episode
Set up the Chapter recaps
Quirk of the recap screen is that Wil has to be referred to neutrally
Set up a scoring spreadsheet and ...
2024-08-04 04:25:28 +0000 UTC View PostHelloo~~oo everyone! Time for this week's update!
Let's get into it.
Revised and formatted Raif's endings
Revised and formatted Yren's endings
FINISHED the writing. For now.
Worked on the playthrough of Yren's route
Made more edits along the way
Worked on UI stuffs
New glossary screen
New S...
2024-07-27 04:16:01 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone! Sorry for the late devlog this week. I don't have a real reason other than "I forgot to post it." Ha ha.
Some of you know that I write my devlogs up in google docs before I post them here and the result is that sometimes I write them up but forget to post them over here (particularly if I'm busy like I was this weekend!)
Let's get into it.
Revised and Formatted Kav's endings
Helloo~ooo everyone! Time for this week's update! I have cleared a major milestone for the game development. So..yay!
Let's get into it.
I...I DID IT.
I finished the draft. @_@
639,000 words for the rough draft.
I still have t...
2024-07-13 08:32:06 +0000 UTC View PostHelloooo everyone! Time for this week's update!
Finished drafting Noel's ending scenario
Finished drafting Raif's ending scenario
Sprite tweaks
Noel
Yren
Daaz
UI stuff
Namely creating screen mock-ups and re-designs
This week I finished up...
2024-07-06 07:55:45 +0000 UTC View PostRamble
Helloooo everyone! Time for this week's update!
Finished drafting Kav's ending
Started Noel's ending
About halfway through with it
Lots of UI stuff!
This week I finished drafting Kav's ending. Of course, I still have to edit it and proofread it, which I'm going to wait to do but the draft i...
2024-07-01 00:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post