Behind the scenes: Hotfix 0.11 (Patreon)

This is a little different than my normal behind the scene posts. But the idea is to give some insight as to the plans for this hotfix for update 0.11.

So this hotfix is different than your normal hotfix in the past for other updates, as those ones were purely to fix major issues that made it past internal testing before being released. Things such as game breaking issues or bugs, major visual issues, etc. Stuff in general that doesn't feel right to leave it untouched for a whole month until the next update.

This hotfix isn't exactly fixing anything classified as those issues. It's mainly just adding some delayed content, so in a way think of this hotfix as "update 0.11.5" :P Don't let that confuse you though.

There isn't a lot of new content in this hotfix being worked on, it's just a few extra minor things added.

One of the things that has come to my attention with the new expressions and how they were compressed is that some expressions have subtle differences in how the image was compressed. i.e compressed artifacts or what not, so one thing that I hope to do is that this Saturday. I have a better way to compress the expressions, not exactly better in the sense of file size as it will make the file size increase by 10MB or so. But in return the quality of the sprite images will be better than how they are seen currently.

Along with this, I am slowly removing some old cg placeholder screens from areas of the game and making sprites try to act out the events instead. This is mainly for cg scene areas that aren't quite considered major story events, do keep in mind these are still planned as extra cg scenes added in the future. It's simply for the long haul, it would look better to not have the extra placeholder screens where it isn't really needed for now.

Those are the two major things happening, but there's Erika and Rachel cg scenes for their punishment being added (4 scenes in total with variants). Depending on if our cg artist gets the Juliet one done, that too will be added in this hotfix.

That about covers it for what to expect, as this is mainly just a tiny addition for update 0.11. I'm expecting that by Sunday this hotfix will be released and expect to also see some bg art being previewed this weekend, along with some more Heather sprite stuff and leading into next week we'll see writing behind the scenes. ^^