Devlog - February 8th, 2025

Hello, everyone! Happy new year, and happy February!

It's been quite a while since I made an update about the development of this game, so I wanted to share a few things in this devlog.

SPRITES

First of all, let's talk about the sprites! As some of you may know, several months ago I made a Ko-Fi goal to be able to afford paying the artists to make all the sprites for this game and, to my huge surprise, the goal was reached in a very small time!

At the moment, I'm happy to mention that all of Fawna's sprites have been completed and Oz's are mostly completed. I thought he should have a pajama outfit as well, so that's the outfit he's missing. Mustache also has to add all of his finished expressions into his 'killer outfit" sprite, and there are A LOT of expressions, so that's why it's been taking a while.

Once Oz's sprites are finished, the next step before starting Arthur's sprite will be changing the cover art.

BACKGROUNDS

When it comes to backgrounds, 5 of them have already been completed including:

- Fawna's apartment (living room & bedroom)

- Oz's bedroom

- Arthur's bedroom

- Cub of Coffee Cafe (indoors)

Currently, Danu's working on finishing the Chief of Police's office, the office's hallway, Fawna's office and the detention center. Here are some sneak peeks:

I've already let her know the changes I wanted implemented so they should be finished very soon! Once these are done, Danu will continue with the night versions of all the backgrounds that she made so far (except for the detention center, which doesn't need it). 

Once that's finished, 6 more backgrounds are missing with their night versions. Thankfully, the Ko-Fi goal for all of these backgrounds has been completed as well!

CODING & NEW UPDATES

As for the coding, I've been applying some of the new backgrounds as well as Fawna's sprites and the option in the game for the player to choose whether they want to play as her or their own invisible character. Keep in mind, though, that Fawna isn't a blank slate protagonist, so your character will still have her personality.

There's also a new game icon! Oz will no longer be using a knife but rather a knuckle duster with claws. I thought this made much more sense as to why he's called tiger in the first place. Since many serial killers' names are derived from their way of killing. 

And last, but certainly not least, I have a new logo now! The one from before only had Vesper the owl, but this one also includes a new mascot: Aster the cat.

WRITING

While I've been touching a few things on the script to make them make more sense with the new art, I'll be writing chapter 1 once I have most of the backgrounds finished; so I can have a better grasp of where the scenes should take place. I do have a vague idea, but having more of the assets helps me so I don't have to write and rewrite so often.

CGs

CGs will most likely be added in another update different from the new demo update. Having all of this new art takes quite a while, especially when there's only two artists in the game (well, three artists, but Flor has finished all of the food art quite a long while ago); so the CGs will have to wait for a little bit. 

Once the sprites are done, I'm sure the updates for these will be much quicker.

If you'd like to help with my game funds for the CG art, you can donate to my Ko-Fi!

WHEN WILL THE NEW UPDATE COME OUT?

While I can't speak with absolute certainty, my plan is to release the new demo including chapter 0 (the prologue) and chapter 1 sometime in April. I don't want to give any clear-cut dates because I'm still not certain of when all the new art will be finished. We're trying to make it work for sometime in April, but keep in mind that it's not a definitive date, just a rough estimate.

Once that update is out of the way, there won't be any more free updates with new content, since the game is planned to be commercial. But I'm hoping the new DEMO is worth the wait and makes the hype for this game resurface again.

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Thank you very much for reading until the end!

See you in the next update~