[OC] Nonoka (Alts) (Patreon)

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Here's my new heavily pregnant shopkeeper OC, Nonoka Tsukumo (九十九野々華)! Sorry to keep you waiting.

As with the other girls, you'll find more about her later in the actual story. Nonoka will be the one the main character (i.e. the player) is most familiar with right from the start of the story, as the MC is one of her shop helpers. Her ability is to transmute whatever nonliving item goes inside her belly into something more useful. She's able to make various equipment, as well as various potions, and even bombs this way. Naturally, she sells most of her creations along with other goods at her general store. She's also able to sometimes give life to some special items or artifacts, turning them into tsukumogami that will help her run her store among other things.

In this image set you'll find the sprites of her base pose, bigger tum alts, alt colors, as well as the visual novel mockups. You can find more of them in the .zip file below.

There's actually a lot more possible alts, but they'd number into several hundreds if I include them all here (considering all the face combinations, alt colors, belly size, etc.). I've only included the ones I thought would be more interesting to see here, but you'll definitely see nearly all of the possible combinations in the final product, as I've finally found a way to export the layers to Ren'py, which will be able to assemble the sprites on the fly without requiring me to import all the possible combinations myself. This makes things easier for me by saving time from exporting all the images while also saving on storage space. 

As with all sprites so far, nothing's final yet and changes over time are to be expected. More poses and alts are also possible, as I'll be revisiting these sprites as needed, since I'll definitely need more sprites for her to feel more dynamic.

Now all the waifus of the main cast are here! All that's left in the character design department is to design the main character, side characters, and minor characters. I'll prioritize drawing other pics over these for now, but rest assured I'll always be working on the visual novel whenever I can. 

If you notice a long pause between uploads, it's simply because I'm working hard on the visual novel, whether it's making art assets, designing characters, making the UI, worldbuilding, writing/checking the script, shopping for free use assets, researching what makes visual novels good, etc. Again, I'll do my best to balance the workload with other things I gotta do.

Also, from now on and until I come up with a better title, I'll be referring to the visual novel as "Project Scarlet Moon". Still, even in case I do replace the title, it'll be referenced in the story for a nice touch.

Note: The mockups are not actual in-game screenshots and are simply there for testing purposes. No test builds are out yet, but the real ones will look very close to this. Full development of the visual novel will start once I have all the sprites and assets ready.