Hello!!!

It's been a really super busy week for my day-work after my 2 week vacation, so development has slowed down a bit. The draft of Chapter 2 is completely done, it's in the trash draft form now hahaha, but at least it's playable! ヾ(*´▽‘*)ﾉ

Chapter 3... Changes are still pretty big, as I'm having a hard time controlling the narrative pacing, I wrote a lot, but sometimes I feel they are not all "necessary" so I also delete a lot. The end of Chapter 3 marks the beginning of Hendrix and Edmund route's choices, so I focused on making the emotional portrayal of the duo as natural as possible. I also tweaked the text of Chapter 3 into a linear narrative mode.

While I've always tried to start everything else after the script is finished, now I'm wondering if it's time for me to do some artwork at the same time. Heh heh... We'll see.

 I've been too busy with the script so I haven't been drawing (I want to draw so bad!!!), but here are some early art for TROT:

Left: early sketch for the heroine | Right: design sketch for Lisa

The evolution of Noah's deisign

Regarding creativity, I think it's really easy for creators to get stuck in the loop of feeling like 'not good enough', or at least that's how it is for me hahahaha._(:з」∠)_ 

I tried to avoid this at the very beginning, so I chose to update the game chapter by chapter instead of going straight for a FULL release (otherwise I knew I'd be repeatedly pushing back on what I'd created so many times I'd never be satisfied until I finally gave up on developing this game).

But my goal is still to get the game into testing stage within November, and to wrap up this update (I mean official release) within this year (b/c I will have a short hiatus in 2024 Jan ~ Feb  - because of life stuff). So I'm hoping to finish this update before then.

 (ง •̀_•́)ง 

That's it for now! Until next time :)