It's a lie (art update) (Patreon)

Good news everyone, I haven't come up with an April fools joke this year! 

Nothing, nada, zero. No fake virus attacks, accidental hdd wipes or whatever else can be used to spice up/ruin  the first of April. Everything is entirely fine!

Hmmmm well, not entirely, the reason I didn't do an April fools' joke is because I'm having one of my "everything sucks, my drawings are shit and I want to see it all burn down."-moods for about a week now. Not one of the best moments to write an update or do an April fools joke, but although I can forego our usual April shenenigans, I can't just leave you all without at least trying to inform you on what've been doing.

Btw. don't get too concerned, these moods aren't exactly a new thing to me so I'll be  waiting for those clouds to once more move on to wherever they go when they're not above my head and do what I can in the meantime.    I think I see some movement on the cloud front, which is why I felt up to writing this. 

Okay, small update on that idea I was talking about for book 4. I sent it to the coder and the coder liked it a lot. I added some changes which made it better and than I started to realize the scope of the work(possible bugfixing/artwork) which it would need and the fact it would probably just end up with the player having to do more clicking to get where he wants to be.  So.... it'd just end up being essentially... fluff .

There's these two "people" in my head, one convinced it's cool and needs to be added, and the other who feels it doesn't make for a nice addition(just more work) and is adamantly against addding it. Both are completely convinced they are right, evenly matched  and constantly arguing in my head which is tiring as fuck. One minute I'm leaning towards one opinion and the other day towards the other. 

Since I already sort of gave it away last time, I'll just tell you what it is: having a small player character walking across several screens and visiting the places you'd normally just click on from one screen. Kinda looks nice, but what does it exactly do? Only prolong the time it takes you to go from one place to another. And unlike the tunnels where you'd unlock new parts (which in general you wouldn't have to visit again) this time you'd be walking through the same parts again and again.... and again. 

Sure we could add a character here and there to talk to and maybe some other stuff, but... well, as nice as that can sound I'm having a  ridiculous amount of doubts whether we can do it within a reasonable time and whether it would actually add to the experience instead of making it a bother for the player to do.

If we really won't be using the "walking around manually"-thing  It'll at least eventually find it's way into the art assets, but I'm gonna wait till we're absolutely sure. Oh and just as a reminder, I've said this quite a few times in older updates, but the start of book is a lot of work so don't expect the new build to be done in a month. It's more likely going to be two. I know, waiting sucks. We feel the same way.

So besides getting the energy siphoned out of me because of this seesaw of yes/no in my head, I've been working on backgrounds and finished two scenes for book4(sorta). Woohoo!! Yep it's not all just gloominess, no sir, we're getting shit done!   I'm really trying to give the backgrounds some more attention than usual and  those m*thaf*kas are just bottomless timeguzzlers.  You'll be seeing them repeatedly though which means it's worth the effort. 

Since it's the final book I have this deep desire to make every picture I draw perfect, of course that's not possible and quite paralyzing when it comes to progress.  It's most likely what triggered my bad mood to begin with , but like I said I can see it starting to clear up a little(hurray for accepting mediocrity???) so onwards we go!