Mimic reveal + Devlog #081 + Monstergirl poll #20 is on! (Patreon)

Oh!
That's a strange take on a mimic, isn't it? I'm glad I tried something different though, it took me a long time to figure out what she should look like. It turns out that there aren't very many criterias to define mimics other than being in a treasure chest. I've seen many takes which also include big teeth and tongue, but I wasn't really feeling that. So that's what I ended up with!
There is a bit more to her which will be seen through her chibi sprite, such as her actually being in the box, but this is what her shop sprite will look like! I'm not 100% positive on this, but she will probably be a random encounter merchant who sells various monster drops depending on the area you find her in.
I hope you like her!

As for the progress I made this month: I began by writing the primary dialogue for every cutscene as planned. It wasn't as easy as I thought, especially considering I also had to describe every action and expression characters would take during each cutscene, as well as various other events. I suppose this makes it closer to a play in some way!
A few parts caused me some trouble, but I ended up figuring it all out. It was interesting to let all these characters express themselves, with their own personality and all.
After I was done with that part, I made a big list of every chibi sprite I'm going to need for the demo. Of course there's the basic sprites for each playable character (idle, walking, fighting stance and such), but I also need various sprites for the cutscenes that aren't seen anywhere else in the game, and of course NPC chibi sprites as well. Finally, I made a separate list for other cutscene exclusive graphical resources. There aren't that many, but they count!
And with that taken care of, I started drawing the chibi sprites! I began with Vuu, who as expected has the highest sprite count out of everyone. Not just because of her main character status, but also because she's very expressive. I finished Vuu's sprites a few days ago, as well as Tril's, and I'm now working on a special unrevealed character.

And that sums up last month's progress!

I'm obviously going to keep working on the chibis this month, it's the biggest chunk of drawing I have left to do. Nowhere close to as big as the new areas and characters thankfully, but I probably won't be able to take care of it all in November. I should get pretty close though! The plan after that is to draw the cutscene exclusive graphical assets.
All that will be left to draw after that are the new shapes, new items, and some other random stuff here and there, but since I won't really need these to begin working on the game itself, I'll keep that for later.
So the next step will instead be to do a general art check where I can correct small details where needed and then, finally, I'll implement everything in the game! I'll talk more about that once I get there.

And that's it for now! Here is the updated TODO list:

-̶ ̶D̶r̶a̶w̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶n̶e̶w̶ ̶a̶r̶e̶a̶s̶

-̶ ̶D̶r̶a̶w̶ ̶n̶e̶w̶ ̶c̶h̶a̶r̶a̶c̶t̶e̶r̶s̶

̶-̶ ̶D̶r̶a̶w̶ ̶p̶o̶l̶l̶ ̶N̶P̶C̶s̶

- Draw a few more NPCs (Maybe 2 or 3?)

- Draw chibis (in progress)

- Draw chibi ranks (might not happen for the demo)

- Draw new collectables

- Draw new shapes

- Implement everything

- Create the rooms

- Implement the new music and SFX once they're done

- Implement the story cutscenes

- Create the shape waves and balance everything

̶-̶ ̶F̶i̶n̶a̶l̶i̶z̶e̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶s̶t̶o̶r̶y̶

 ̶-̶ ̶P̶r̶i̶m̶a̶r̶y̶ ̶d̶i̶a̶l̶o̶g̶u̶e̶

 ̶-̶ ̶C̶u̶t̶s̶c̶e̶n̶e̶ ̶s̶c̶r̶i̶p̶t̶

 ̶-̶ ̶C̶h̶i̶b̶i̶ ̶p̶r̶e̶p̶ ̶w̶o̶r̶k̶

- Secondary dialogue

- Tertiary dialogue

- Probably more stuff I can't think about right now

Here is the copy pasted stuff:

The next monstergirl poll has begun! You can now vote for the monstergirl you want to be included in BE Witches in the Discord if you are a 2$+ patron!

The poll will be active until September 12th. After this, you will be able to change your submitted modifier until September 15th. Finally, the two rounds of the modifier poll will take one week each.

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