April 2021 Mid-Month Update (Patreon)

Hi everyone,

Hope your April is going well so far. Here's what's up with us.

-Like in many of our recent updates, PBH progress has been cruising along. The last of the Chapter 1 stuff is being worked on, including scripting and final edits. The new music tracks that we mentioned in one of the last posts are already well under way and sounding great! We've been posting screenshots on our Twitter most Saturdays, in addition to the ones we post on here. We've got some exciting PBH news coming next month, but as usual, it's too early for us to talk about right now 🤐 

Something that's new and has come in handy is this brush for adding background characters that we've recently started using for PBH. All of the people in this screenshot are added in whole like this, rather than needing to be drawn individually by the background artist. This will save a ton of time, and also let the backgrounds feel more complex and lived in.

Finally, his month's PBH Patreon wallpaper will feature just Juliet and Aspen - check out a wip of the illustration from adi! 

-Samayuuni progress has slowed down now that I'm not working on the common route writing, but it's still happening! I think I mentioned it before, but our new editor, Ari, has been such a huge, huge help. With her guidance, we're adding a lot of details and worldbuilding to the game that we hadn't even considered before, and it's making the story much richer for it. Another graphic side project adi's been working on is making passport stamps for the various planets that the girls visit in-game. They might just be used for graphics and stuff like that, but they'd kinda be cute as stickers too, so we might print some merch in the future if people want 'em.

Here's another wip from adi and Theo, this time of one of the first CG's in the game - the reunion with Quinn.

-Heart of the Woods will be receiving a Spanish translation soon! Thanks to the efforts of a couple fan translators, we're excited to be adding this new language option to the game. It should be available in the next few weeks. Also, if you haven't heard already, we just added Steam achievements to the HotW, so you can now unlock those by playing through the game. If you've already completed it, you'll have to start a new file to unlock them, but you can just hold ctrl to quickly skip through the game and obtain the achievements.

With the Switch version, unfortunately it's going to be an extra two weeks or so from when we thought we'd be able to get them out to backers, and it's now going to be early May instead of late April. We need to submit a patch for the console version to fix a couple issues, which means the game will need to be re-approved by Nintendo. The patch is already done and ready to go, but it'll take a while for everything to be processed. We're sorry about the wait!

Lastly, in terms of Patreon news, we just wanted to highlight the finale to Celeste Academy, "The Day of Celestaria," which went up just a couple weeks ago! This adorable conclusion to the series was written by Suriko and was a great way to wrap up Carida's story. If you haven't read it or Celeste Academy yet, make sure to check them out here on Patreon!

That should wrap everything up for today, so we'll talk to you again in a couple weeks. Thanks for your support!