July 2024 Progress Report (Patreon)

Hey guys!

Another month’s passed, and how quickly they seem to fly!
As much as I wanted to have more to show you guys, I’d rather wait until everything I’m working is closer to completion before revealing anything too early. We’re gearing up for Carlos’ update, but I’ve mostly spent most of this month dedicated to personal commission work and Homecoming.

Working on a single VN is tough, but being the only artist on two at the same time is pretty exhausting! We try to keep Homecoming as out of Patreon as possible as we don’t want to receive any payment for it, but it’s safe to assume a lot of you guys are also interested in Morenatsu as well. We’re approaching the one year mark since the last update, but we should be able to release Kyouji’s entire route next month (if all goes well!). Since I’m not just doing all of the art, but also a lot of the proofreading/rewriting and some writing alongside it, I’m sure you guys can imagine why this has been such a long time coming.

As for Santa Lucia, I think you guys will love what we’re cooking. It needs a little more time to brew, but once it’s done… it’ll hit hard!
Anyway… I’ll leave with one of the finished sprite we previewed last month for Homecoming, alongside Shay’s new sprite coming up in the next update for Santa Lucia… there’s a lot more where that came from!

~Dev

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Hey everyone.

Sorry that the next update for SL still isn’t ready. I’ve been trying to work through a bit of writing burnout for some time now, but ideally the next portion of Carlos’s route is ready to go for build drop next month.

Ever since my cousin’s death back in 2022, my creative spark has been hard to maintain, but I’ve done my best to orient it towards productive work. For two years, I found I had no passion for composing music anymore and instead focused my energy on writing SL. In an ironic twist, this year that balance has shifted more towards composing rather than writing. I’ve got three more songs for the RPG project I’m ready to share, all of which are linked with this post.

The last thing I wanted to talk about for this report is that I made an effort to progress one of the VN concepts I talked about last month. My plan was to have a good chunk of a rough draft prepared to share with you guys, but yeah. That burnout has been pretty brutal on me. I only managed to get about 300 words written, but I still want to share what I have so I can gauge opinions on the style I intend to go for. I’ve compiled a collection of excerpts from the project’s design document so you guys can give it a look. The working title for the project is “Go On and Love”.

Talk to you guys next month.

~Dzahn