[The Hive] Weekly Report #34 (Patreon)

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Latest batch of work on the Hive!

One more background done! 

I worked on the sketch of Ms. Melrose's house and followed the usual process. 

First, cleaning and doing linework. 

Then flat colors and final render! 

These backgrounds always take a lot of time, but I'm generally happy with the result. 

I also continued integrating new scenes into the game. June goes upstairs to wake up her two "sisters". 

I found a way to use a filter in Renpy to create a nighttime effect over a scene. 

This will be very useful for the future because it means I won't need separate day and night versions for the backgrounds. I can simply apply this filter directly in game. 

It will save a lot of space for game files. And as you can see, this filter can be applied to sprites, which is perfect for setting the atmosphere in certain scenes. 

Maddie is not happy about being woken up by June. For this scene, I had to draw a new mouth for Maddie; I'm sure we'll see this expression again since it's probably not the last time Maddie shout at someone. 

And finally, some concept art from Vaabs for the upcoming illustrations. There will be an advertisement for a game show and a cartoon with rabbits (which Maddie is a big fan of). 

And that's it for today! Next week, I'll continue working on backgrounds!