Anduo Report - July 22nd, 2020 (Patreon)
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Heya all! Vils here! Hope you've been enjoying this month's release, but now it's lewds time!
Things to Improve
In this most recent update, we've went back and changed the 'blue hallway' level to make things a little more clear that you're actually able to move since we've had some feedback from players who got confused.
We've also had other bits of things pointed out that we can improve, like:
- Cash sinks to make money feel more valuable and give you something to actually pay for.
- The absolute grind that is the sublevel 1 rehabilitation sequence.
Some ideas came up on how to help improve these two specific issues, like:
- Adding durability to weapons to require you to spend money to keep them repaired. This would be something like durability going down with every attack that you do with it. It won't be like Breath of the Wild though with the super low health on weapons.
- Adjusting the sequencing of the sublevel missions so that you are required to do a room of sublevel 2 in between sublevel 1 rehabilitation scenes to keep the Mark of the Touched off of you, instead of going up to the arena in the hub to do a generic fight.
I'm curious to hear what your thoughts are on these ideas and what other sorts of things you think can be improved! Anything that had you confused or frustrated?
New Art Tech
bear has been working hard on putting together some new tech that can be used for improving the animations! This is called free-form deformation, and it basically allows you to deform the sprite according to points on the sprite. This will allow for more pseudo-3D effects along with the bone method that the animations have been currently using.
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Pose Sketches
Here's a peek at upcoming sketch ideas for future poses coming to the game!
Male Modular Character
We put out the female modular character for NPCs a while ago, and here's a sketch for the male counterpart! Pretty soon we won't have anymore of those ghostly silhouettes!
New Pinup
Here's a peek at a new pinup commissioned by Desva! Sofie is lookin' good!
That's all for this week! We'll see you all next Wednesday for another Anduo Report!