March 2022 Monthly Update (Patreon)

The Divine Speaker

We're finally in release month!!!

We've actually still got a pile of work to do, so we're not giving an exact date yet--but we're expecting around the 29th of March. Yay!

Art

We still have sprites and CGs to complete this month. Here's a preview of a sketch posted a couple of days ago for those on lower tiers:

Look at this little cutie!!!

Artbook and album

The artbook and album will be sent out/released a little after TDS is complete this month. We want some extra time to send all the songs to our audio editor to get everything leveled, and do some final checks of the artbook. They should release next month, in early april.

Programming & Voice Acting

We have begun recording for the Leos route, with some characters already finished (Illran and Veras). Leos and Raen have begun recording and finished their first live session, with two to go.

Recording for Leos route should end in two weeks, but then will take some time to go through editing and testing.

Directly after, we will begin the Fawn route recordings. We're hoping their won't be too big a gap between release and the voice acting patch, but realistically it may take a couple of months to finish up. We'll go as quickly as possible of course.

Wishlist TDS on Steam

Putting a link to our Steam page in once again-even if you're getting a copy of the game from here, it would be AMAZING if you would wishlist the game on Steam beforehand (you can delete it after release!). If we get enough wishlists, we might even get on the front page, which would seriously help sales and show us you guys want more TDS content!

Here's a link to our Steam page!

Focus for the next month

Here's our focus for the next month:

• CGs
• Two remaining sprites
• Final testing

start;again

We're... also in release month for this. LOL.

For those that don't know, we're actually massive masochists and decided to enter nanoreno this month, which is a one month long game jam. We're releasing a full, BL visual novel... the same month as finishing off TDS. Yeah.

Art

Our lead CG artist is Tomomochi, who did some guest artworks for us last month. She is currently working on the 4 CGs that will be in game.

Our sprites were created by 瞬々, who also created the sprites for Amelie. We posted all four sprites a couple of days ago, too.

Writing

I have been... writing a lot! The first day I wrote over 8000 words, then another 9500 over the two days after that.

Currently the game is half written (2/4 routes) and just shy of 20,000 words. We're expecting around 35k-40k in total. To be honest this is the most I've ever written in one month, considering I also work a day job 4 days a week.

Two previews from routes 3 and 4! When we started working on the game I was ready for something darker like Amelie, but it's ended up as a mix of mystery and comedy.

Programming

We currently have finished the base programming on the 4th route. I'm now going through a second pass adding in music as well as the minigames.

The minigames aren't too hard, and I've also been adding in optional hints. 

Route 3 is now going through inital scripting!

Focus for the next month

Here's our focus for the next month:

• Four CGs
• Writing... so much writing
• Programming, testing, release... yeah everything.