Third week of the rework, piercings preview. (Patreon)

Greetings! Here’s what we did this week:

With the text part behind us, we’re completely focused on the artwork and its systems. This week we were mainly testing how the layers work with each other and implementing different test-layers for piercings, which is the last “questionable” part needed for our systems to work. I’ve drawn a couple of them, including some of the suggested ones just for the test, and I think I have enough information from what players want to see, and from conducted tests.

First of all, thank you for sending me your suggestions, they did help us. However, some of them just won’t work due to their complexity.

In order to add just one piercing for Kira`s nipples, we’ve had to create 10 versions of it for each breast size, which would normally be fine, since we’re already doing this for every outfit (The top part of every outfit exists for 10 breast sizes), but, piercings can and will be shown in events, so we’ll have to do this with every existing event and with every future event.

One of the suggested piercings - nipple stretchers. If we were to actually make them functional and enlarge (or lengthen) Kira’s nipples after their repeatable use, we would need to add in a separate layer for nipples (10 of them) and create separate layers for other piercings, toys and maybe even some outfits for those new nipples, since they will be different (again, 10 of everything, because we have 10 breast sizes), not to mention that we’ll also have to do this in events. It is possible, but it would take us a lot of time, which is simply not worth it in our opinion. Creating them just for her character art - won’t work either, since they will glitch when Kira will wear something skin-tight.

Piercings with words or skulls won't be seen, since rpg maker's screen is relatively small.

And the final suggestion that we’ve struggled with - nipple chain. Doesn’t work with skin-tight outfits, which would mean that we’ll either have to create separate interchangeable layers for this type of piercing (10 more pictures possibly for every outfit), or we could make this chain - an outfit, meaning that for some reason (probably hypnosis), Kira won’t be able to wear anything on top of it. And if it will win future polls, at some point - we will add it in as an outfit.

In conclusion, nipple piercings are tough, and we will decide together in the poll what we should do with them.

The most suggested piercings places - nipple and septum, surprisingly only one person suggested Kira’s nether regions to be pierced. Due to the size of her character art, we can’t add in “small” piercings, like a bunch of rings or something similar, since they will look like a pixelated mess. We can add in clitoris piercing, but I don’t think it will be seen clearly on her character art and in most events, so I’m not sure whether or not it’s worth the struggle. We can also add in a chain, It will be seen in skirt-based outfits and some events.

Belly piercings can exist, but they need two layers - normal and pregnant, they weren’t requested at all, so I’m not sure about them.

Nose and Ears - they will never move or change their shape, so we can pierce them without any problem, though quantity of piercings still plays a role in the amount of time it will take us to draw, code and even write events (some characters will comment on Kira’s appearance).

Every other part of her face - moves with expressions, which means that the piercings will also move, especially Lip and chin, due to the fact that Kira’s lips can be enlarged, we will also have to create separate layers for them.

We need to figure out what piercing layers should be paired together and the best way to convey how it will work to you (lips+under the lip, upper nose, cheek, do we need them at all? etc.), we intend to do this over the weekend, so expect the piercing poll to be out by monday (including monday).

This poll will be the last one for Kira’s physical appearance (for the rework update), we will decide the quantity of stuff like body writings, pregnancy (belly layer), hair, toys and more - on our own. I’m planning to finish Kira’s character art and this layering system next week, so we will announce the overall numbers and layers with detailed information and pictures (or gifs) in the next progress report.

With the character art done, numbers of future changes known and coded in - we will only have to finish working on existing events (which are already in the making).

After the piercings poll, I will continue to ask you content related questions, and I will tease redrawn art up until the release date.

Thank you for your attention and your support, I can almost see the finish line!

Bellow you can see the example picture with piercings that were used for the testings (it’s all layered in game), this is not the final look of her piercings, we will decide them together later on.