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April 24th Weekly Update

Taxes, DoL shenanigans, other IRL crap, and a lot of time spent on commissions definitely cut into my dev time this week, but we still made some surprisingly nice progress!

I think the most exciting for some will be that we finally have a functional damage/heal display! It's a little clunky, and I'd like to improve it further, but at least it's there.

Abilities now also preview thei...

Celica Theme (Final)

God damn, this is some gourmet shit, Jimmy!

Has a bit of a Chrono Trigger vibe, but at least to me it absolutely sounds like Celica, rather than 'some free music that the dev used to represent her.' Much like her it kinda goes back from a sort of windy sound to somber tones, beautiful but lonely. IDK. Maybe I shouldn't quit my day job to become a music reviewer.

Sam Sprite Update Preview

I wasn't planning on doing a sprite update, buuuuut when I went to commission a lewd CG of her a bit back, the artist pointed out a number of serious issues in OG Sam's art. Some of them were relatively subtle, others... very major, like the fact that her nude version was essentially unusable, and offered to do a new version for fairly cheap.

SO. Here are some sketches (non-lined/colored)...

Version Poll

How do you prefer to play Divine Dawn?

There are no vote weights for this poll, I'm just trying to get a sense of who plays where. Please vote here even if you voted in the Discord poll!

Celica Fanart!

GOD WHAT A CUTE CHRISTMAS TREE. All credit to Nor on the discord for such a wonderfully cute depiction of Celica being best girl!

April 17th Weekly Update

I got back to work this past week, and have a decent bit to show for it, along with a lot that I don't want to spoil just yet.

 Spent a decent amount of time trying to make camp/transitions a little less clunky; there are visible transitions going back to/leaving camp or passing time, some characters fade in or move onto screen from one side rather than just appearing instan...

Experimental Lewd Poll

Ok, we're gonna try vote weights for this poll before I commit to them entirely.

As such, $3 is x1 weight, $5 is x2, $10 is x3, and $20 is x4. Trying to keep it simple, I guess if you really hate the numbers yell at me?

Metatron and Sam don't appear here since they already won the previous romance+lewd polls.

Celica Theme WIP Preview

YOOOOOOO. Not disparaging Maya's theme, but this bitch SLAPS. Around the 0:23 mark, when it really kicks in, it tastes like Celica so damn hard man.

0.20 Roadmap

Based on my own plans and the results of the last few polls, here's what I'm aiming for in this update.

- Metatron and Sam romance progress, hopefully lewds

- Ina camp scenes to finish off the Severn arc

- (god I hope) dropping off Ina, meeting the Knight-Commander, and getting the Hob plotline going full bore

- MAYBE the deepwoods area?

- Equipment system UI / may...

0.20 Area Focus

In the next update, I want to push us into at least one new area and keep the plot momentum we started in the last update. Problem is... I have a couple of possibilities.

One option is to continue with the core storyline - starting to head east, towards the mountains, and eventually Astrologia. We'd probably get a riverbanks area this time, leading up to the mountains and their various wa...

Romance Progression Poll

Alright, so, I WILL fucking get Metatron lewds into the game this update if it kills me. Probably. That said, we have a number of other girls who have also had enough romantic progress that in 1-2 scenes I could justify adding lewds for them too.

So, aside from Metatron, who do you most want to see more of? I'm just polling for the ones with meaningful romance progress for now, Maya and A...

19e Release!

Don't ask why there's an E tacked onto the version number, you really don't want to know.

Anyways, the download links at the top of the page have been swapped out for a link to the downloads folder, makes things easier for me, hopefully it's about equally functional for you guys.

Changelog;

-All girls with art now use that art for portraits when speaking, which should make it ...

April 3rd Weekly Update

Might as well start off by sharing some fanart, commissioned by Token and drawn by jfc! Apparently, the other girl is named Venefica(sp?) and hails from Monster Girl Dreams. All I know is that they both have EXCELLENT thighs.

Last week was spent finishing up .19, which is now in beta and will be posted here as soon as I'm sure it's not going to break horribly. It seems to be stabilizing, ...

Severn Monsters

We had so many damn previews this month that I kinda ran out of time to post these one by one as usual, so... I guess we're doing a mini-album lmao. Axebeaks, slimes, and goshawks are all here!

I'm really fond of the axebeak in particular, I feel like they hit a great balance between intimidating and goofy, exactly what you'd want from a bird with an axe for a face.

Moar Ina Previews

So we got a sorta predatory Ina, an ABSOLUTELY FUCKING LIVID shork, and a profoundly smug feesh. Man, with 17 expressions and the possibility of slapping together more, I could keep going for a while before even showing off her naked version lmao.

I mean, I will, but that's for another day!

March 27th Weekly Update

Decently productive week! Lotta Sam writing finally got that romance going in a typically Sam way, which is both a blessing and a curse.

We also have the first commissioned music! Maya's basic camp theme came out fantastic, she's cute af. Now admittedly, music is a bit of a luxury so don't expect a huge torrent of it, but I will definitely get more over time. 

Kuril's final art...

Maya Theme

YOOOOOO LET'S FUCKING GO!

So uh, as you may guess from the title and attachment, we got our first official music commission sorted out, and thankfully it came out great lmao. Didn't want to talk shit at the start of the experiment in case it was garbage, but thankfully those fears were unfounded.

Generally speaking, I think the theme does a great job of being a neutral/upbeat charac...

Kuril Art Preview

WHY IS HE SO GODDAMN COOL? And handsome, for that matter. My god, you could grind meat on those abs.

Anyways uhh... yeah. The blue glow *probably* won't make it ingame so he can have a fully transparent background, but otherwise homeboy looking like a blue beast. Aquaman decided to bring his A-game this time. 

Ina Art Preview

GOD SHE'S SO CUTE, HOLY FUCK I WANT TO HUG A FEESH among other things

That blep is so fucking blessed, jfc pls have mercy. Now we need a MetaBlep. Ina is also cute when surprised or embarrassed, and DAMN them some teeth!

Really makes you wonder about how much of a trust exercise a blowjob would be...

March 20th Weekly Update

Art week 2: Electric Artaloo: The Artening: Art Strikes Back

Ok I'm done. Anyways, jfc did an amazing job on Ina's art, very expressive and cute! With that done I can actually get rolling on Sahuagin content, though we'll see how much gets into this update.

Kuril also getting some dope art, and I have a few other experiments cooking. Kinda want to see how they turn out before I star...

Kuril Sketches

As usual, unfinished art, but I am curious what you guys think about these two possible appearances for Kuril. Which do you think fits an intimidating-but-cool shark bro?

I found a couple of relatively-cheap artists on Fiverr to do him and got two very different designs from the same description to each haha.

Might actually just post a Sahuagin lore preview in the next few days, but...

Patron Benefits

You can just vote for whatever benefits interest you, but if you have some time, I'd really appreciate your taking the time to read this post, think about it, and (if relevant) post feedback or other things you want to see.

Anyways! While I feel a lot more confident about my work on the game than I did at the start, one of the things I still don't feel I have a great grasp of is patron be...

March 13th Weekly Update

Seems like this is art week lol. Ina's art has been coming along super cute, and Severn enemies are getting filled out as well! We'll see how that syncs with release, and if there are any upcoming art surprises.

In terms of game progress that is... also art, every girl with art now has proper portraits as well, similar to Aspasia in 0.18. Really makes conversations more lively to be able ...

Ina Flat Color Preview

As with any sketch/unfinished preview, this is a work in progress rather than final art. But the general color scheme is there, and I'm really happy with it!

I'm curious if people like these kinds of progress pics, or if you'd rather just see the initial sketch + final art.

Ina Expressions

GOD THAT BLEP IS SO CUTE

The world's most expressive shark is moving along; with plenty of expressions (and a bit of room for me to frankenstein more) she should be fun to interact with! Especially on a charisma break. 

She's always charisma broken.

Fun fact: yes, there is a reason her left eye looks different than the right. No, it doesn't give her magic powers, but the ...

March 6th Weekly Update

Not quite as exciting a week as the previous one, but I fixed some pernicious bugs, added wind magic abilities that didn't fit into last week, and got some pretty good progress on Sam romance stuff.

If nothing else I'm slowly learning from Celica/Metatron's LOL. From 3 to 2 to 1 week, maybe next time it'll be better?

Ina art is coming along and starting the process for the next batc...

February 27th Weekly Update

Well, this has been one of the more... jam-packed weeks so far lmao. About 14,000 words of Celica in one week, where I've had entire updates that were 14k words.

But her wind training is written, and probably the most complex scenes so far on top of that; there are quite a few dialogue swaps based on your magic/focus/insight stats, as well as your affection with her.

Especially if y...

Behold, Perfection

I am proud to share a small preview of Ina's art, courtesy of the talented jfc! 

She'll feature much more in the coming update as the plot begins to grind along again, and will get proper art in the next 1-2 updates.

(btw, I'll do a proper patron update preview and content vote in the next few days)

0.18d

Yeah... we're already a couple bugfix updates in. Highly recommended to download to avoid various serious issues.

Divine Dawn 0.18b Released!

0.18a is finally out! Celebrating the first anniversary of the game (February 8, 2021), this is the biggest content update yet, both in writing and mechanics.

While it's been a little bumpy along the way, and not all of my initial plans worked out the way I hoped, we've still made quite a bit of progress. I've learned a lot more about coding/structure, fixed a lot of stuff, and added quit...