December Devlog - Catgirls Are Cute!

Hello there! Happy holidays and all that. I was planning to have a Catgirl Care Chibi alpha available for you all to toy around with but it's a bit behind schedule because of how busy my holidays have been. For now, I can at least show off some of the features I've been developing.

First of all, the chibi catgirls have received a redesign. I didn't really receive much feedback regarding the last design, but I felt it looked quite bad. These new chibi catgirls are much cuter and work a lot better with the limited animation approach I'm going for.

As you can see in the above gif, catgirls are now animated and can have custom appearances (more clothes and hairstyles are coming soon). The present scene is loaded from the user's save data, meaning that the room (just a debug room for now), the decorations, the catgirls, and even the basketball that one catgirl decided to hold are added through gameplay. This is why navigation generation at runtime was important to build out early on.

I'm planning to polish off the customization systems over the following month or so, but development on the proper gameplay will be the main focus after that. I still need to decide on how I want Catgirl Care Chibi to play, but the important thing is that it reflect the core game designs intended for Catgirl Care proper. This will most likely mean there will be a lot of changes to Catgirl Care Chibi until I "find the fun" but by doing this project, the 3D version will be much easier to plan for.

Other plans

While Catgirl Care Chibi is my main project, I've also been tooling around with some other creative projects. Some of you may be aware of my YouTube/Twitch content. I've been attempting to get more done on the YouTube end, including bringing back a new version of the Fappy Hour podcast we used to do (with less offensive content for sure!) and some edited videos. 

I have also been planning to put into action my plans to get my games up on Steam starting early 2024. There are some fees and waiting periods that will need to be accounted for, but I know a lot of you have been asking for Steam releases for a while, so I'll be sure to post about that once it happens.

Regarding art: I've been working on a few more character concepts that I'm really excited to draw. There are two pairs that I've been specifically trying to finalize, a vampire + succubus and a deer woman + elf, though the first pair may come first since I want to do some additional research on folklore for the second group. I'm planning to draw a short introduction to these characters once I finalize their designs so that you all can have a decent idea for who they are once I inevitably do an art poll focused on these characters.

Catgirl Care, of course, is my main focus, but I still like to follow exciting ideas when they come to me, especially if I've been excited by them for a while. Keep an eye on the Discord for updates on those ideas. I tend to share early concepts if I'm curious about what other people think. While you're there, toss a vote on who the server icon should be for next year!

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Anyhow, thank you for supporting me, everyone! I'm hoping to make this upcoming year a very exciting one.