[The Hive] Weekly Report #38 (Patreon)

Warning ! Don't open and scroll on these posts if you want to keep the surprise for the next demo.

Play the latest demo here and leave some ideas here.

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Latest batch of work on the Hive!

I continued integrating the rest of the first TV choice into the game. Lola imitates everything Lamby does.

Including gulping down bottles. But that's not all!

The show ends with a (messy) bang! Poor June doesn't know what she signed up for. Of course, it's still a placeholder picture; I will rework it or collaborate with an artist to redraw it.

That's one show done, now for the other...

The linework and colors are done for Star Hop, Maddie's favorite show! I had a ton of fun with these ones; I tried a kind of Star Trek-y vibe for the uniforms.

With the show redesign, I had to edit the small animated snippet of Star Hop you can see on TV when June wakes up in the morning.

I love coming back to characters with fresh eyes and improving the designs. This time, I reworked Megan and Melrose!

Revisiting those sprites sometimes includes reworking the bodies or diapers. So it's more work than just remodeling the face or haircut. Megan is definitely giving me a hard time; I will probably touch up the hair again when I have the opportunity.

Finally, here's some of the work I've been doing in Twine, the narrative software. It's a bit of a challenge to have modular storytelling, and this tool is going to help us a ton! Each of these blocks represents extensive guidelines that I will later discuss with Personalias and ask him to develop.

In this case, those guidelines and branches represent the sequence of events during the evening. They are going to change depending on June's reset level and if she's transitioning to a new reset level or not.

And that's about it for today!

I've been working like crazy on the game during my time off to meet the next demo deadline. So expect more content than usual on the game during this month!