So if anyone has been following closely, they would have noticed that we didn’t make the YuriJam 2016 Oct. 31 deadline. As much as we would have wanted to mark our game as a successful YuriJam applicant, we realized the issues we had were very real and knew that in order to put out a good product, some more time was needed.

For the past few weeks, we’ve completely reapproached some aspects of the game and couldn’t be happier with the progress we’ve made since! Three new team members have been added to our group: Jessie Gallo, our new writer who will be plotting, planning, and problem solving our story; Jennifer Shi, who will be our colorist and assistant character artist; and William Tan, our new programmer and connection to Rocktastic Games, who’s partnering together with us for CP.

Thanks to William and Rocktastic, we’ve completely scrapped our Ren’py build in favor of Unity, which has been much easier for the type of game we wanted to make, and it has also opened many new doors for us in the programming department. Our interface has been revamped, with a mock desktop and automated chat sequence; apologies in advance for the pixelated gif ._. (Note: All icons and backgrounds are placeholders and will not be used in the demo or final product).

William will be working hard with Camy in order to create a beautiful, interactive interface. Camy is currently working on our GUI, and already has made a beautiful night sky wallpaper for our opening screen (as seen above) with our final logo from WinterMochie.

With our new colorist on board, Jennifer (Or as we refer to her as: Gale/Galember) will be taking the linework from Whitney and adding in flats and shades. Gale will then be sending those PSDs off back to Whitney for final lighting and color adjustments for a uniform look. 

Finally, the girls will also be getting their own set of custom chat stickers! Just as you would find on the Facebook Messenger or LINE, our girls will be able to really express themselves with these cute emotes! 

Next week we’ll hopefully be able to update the dev blog again with some insight into our game’s new art and  features! We’re moving forward fairly quickly, and we can’t wait to share more of our progress with everyone!