Progress report + Community recolor 2 hair color poll results

Hey everyone. Sorry this post is like.. a full week late at this point! Surprisingly, it's not because things were going poorly; if anything, I got more consistent work done than I have in a while. I was getting a weird roadblock specifically with writing an update post on here, so I decided to just roll with it and work on the things that were coming more easily at the time. I'll try not to make a habit out of it though, update consistency is important to me.

In any case, it was a nice productive 2-ish weeks, though it might not look like much on the surface, since I spent the majority of my time working on the intro cutscene. In my last update I very optimistically guessed I'd be done with that cutscene in a few days, but adding effects, animations, and polish has resulted in it being a much longer timesink than expected. The new intro is easily the most complex cutscene in the game currently though - plus, it's one of the only scenes that has to be completely redone from the ground up, because it shares nothing with the old intro. All that to say, even though this one is taking a long time, the rest of the cutscenes (with perhaps one exception) will be significantly easier to implement, so I should be able to fly through them in comparison.

In any case, here's the daily updates since the last progress report:

And now, we return to the recolor polls! Last time we were voting on Alicia's hair color, and here are the results:

YET AGAIN, the votes for two recolors (2 and 3) were in sync between Discord and Patreon, but for Recolor 1, Patreon voted overwhelmingly in favor of A, which ended up coming out on top despite being the lowest voted option on Discord. Eventually I'll stop commenting on this every time it happens, it just amazes me how consistent you guys are with it.

Now that hair color has been decided, it's time to vote on Alicia's jacket! You know how the votes work by now; pick as many options as you want, and the poll will run until the middle-ish of the week, where I'll post another poll with the variants based on the colors you pick here.

Alright, that about wraps it up for today - sorry again for the longer wait between updates! I'll make sure the next ones come out on time as expected. In the meantime, thank you very much for reading, and we'll see you again in a few days with the next part of the recolor poll!