Highway Blossoms: Next Exit Progress Update (Patreon)

What's up gamers,

I'm here today with another update on the progress for Highway Blossoms: Next Exit. Things are cruising along right now, with the first draft of the script done and with edits and rewrites about to start. We realized after finishing the roughs that the two stories, revolving around Amber + Marina and Tess respectively, were a bit disjointed. So, we're adding a couple more scenes and details that'll help tie those two narratives together. The art and music are also coming along nicely. Most of the CG's are sketched and a few are close to finished, although we're going to be adding two or three more than originally expected. Just a couple days ago, moekki posted a WIP of a new sprite for Cassi, and let me tell you, I can't wait to make her my profile picture because she is SO good.

Speaking of art, we've got a new background artist joining for us for HB:NE and so today we're hyped to show you the first background she's done for us: kjkjmulo has done some amazing work so far. With the level of detail she's put into our BG's, you could almost believe that Las Vegas is a real place!

During the last update, we showed you a couple of the new item cut-ins that we'll be adding to the base game. Well, now we're gonna show you some more. But with an added bonus this time.

Along with the cutins, we're also going to be adding a "Marina's Thoughts" section on each item section to the gallery, to help remember what made each item special. Here's a preview of what those will look like, although the presentation itself might change. The graphics are by adi and Tophat from Studio Coattails.

We've still got a couple months to go before HB:NE will be ready for release, but things are coming together well! We hope you're all excited to get back on the road with our girls. In the Highway Blossoms: Next Update we'll have some new music to share, as well as maybe that Cassi sprite I was talking about 👀 Maybe not her though, since I'm not sure if we should go about spoiling the best part of the game like that.

Until next time, take care!

-Josh