What's Coming in Version 0.08
Added 2021-08-03 20:12:56 +0000 UTCHey everyone, version 0.08 is underway so it's about time to let you know what we're working on. First up in terms of story we'll be adding a scene with Raisa to the existing events of day 3, then finishing up day 4 of the prologue which will have 2 rendered scenes. As far as artwork goes, we're going to continue improving our sprites by bringing the rest of the characters into the new pose-able system. We've already finished with Raisa and added her pregnancy morphs. Rithe is also mostly done, so last up we'll be upgrading Lena & Lucine. We're not changing their entire character designs like we did for Eryn, but we are touching up a few details here and there that don't look quite right. After the sprites, we plan to replace the blacksmith shop placeholder background with a final render. Last up I'm going to start working on some major performance fixes. Right now all of our images are huge PNG files, so I'll be upgrading to WEBP to cut down on file size without compromising on image quality. I also took a shortcut early on where every picture no matter how small is a 1920x1080 image with a huge alpha channel so that I wouldn't have to manually position everything in RenPy. Where that starts getting crazy is on our character sprites, which are stacks of 20+ layered images each. It's not an issue on a modern PC but it turns out some players with older hardware or mobile phones are having bogging issues and even crashes. Getting all of that cropped should fix those issues. Thanks again for your support, and as always you can message us with any bugs or questions.
