Art/progress update (Patreon)

Finished the stuff for book 2!  But that's not really what I wanted to talk about so on to the progress part of this update.

We felt pretty bad when we had to postpone the release last month. Especially the coder had it bad because his hands were tied and couldn't do much of anything. We resigned ourselves to that fact but were ready to put our asses into the highest gear once he got back to make up for the lost time. It's then when we rediscovered this age old nugget of wisdom: when it rains it pours. Misery loves company  etc.

The only ass in high gear currently is mine (and I have the chafe marks to prove it!)  but of course I can only do so much by myself. The coder is not able to do anything at the moment. Another bit of bad luck hit him when he returned from the funeral because he's down with fever.

Considering the hectic time he's had, bad sleeping accommodations and just the stress of it all I'm not really all that surprised his resistance against disease was lowered and picked up something nasty along the way.

He's a trooper so he did manage to send me a short email telling me about it and saying he's doing everything to overcome it quickly,  but I told him to take it easy and don't force the issue. I tried forcing it once which only prolonged the time to get better. 

Long story short, strap yourself in for waiting some more(again/still) for which we can't apologize enough, but that's just the way things are right now. Please shout at us in the comments if that makes you feel better.

Btw. we'd like to thank everyone who wrote us messages of support in the last update. We appreciate it very much. 

Soooooo........  that accounts for the coder/writer but what about me? What have I been doing besides wrapping up a few pics here and there?  Well, when one man's down the other tries to pick up the pace. Which is hard when you closely work together but I have a little side project I've been working on for book 3. It's one of the few things I can do right now so I decided to make that my number one priority. 

Because I haven't even been able to show the coder the result I'm still not sure whether I've been wasting my time or made something nice, but I've been working on a new way to incorporate the fights in the game for book 3. Hopefully making them feel more like a (fun) part of the story.

I really wasn't even going to mention it originally. I don't want to inflate expectations for something which might not even be an improvement, but I wanted you guys to know what I'm spending this "lost" time on.  

It was originally an idea of the coder which he told me about a long time ago and I've been working slowly but steadily on getting it to work. A lot more so the last week, but generally it's been a long term project for me. 

 I... *think* it's an improvement, but like I said, I'm the only person who has seen it and I have no idea whether my opinion on it is anything other than personal bias. 

Speaking of book 3, there's still the thing about aging up Toph visibly or not.  I'd like to stick to her appearance in the original cartoon, the coder is fine with whatever the patrons want but we've been getting some mixed signals from you guys whether we should age her up or not. So I was kind of hoping you could give us a clear signal on which way we should go once we've wrapped up book 2. 

If we can't get a clear yay or nay  we might do a higher tier poll, but this is such an important decision we'd like it to be something all our patrons can have a say in.

So, aging up Toph visually...yes or no?