News + Divimera Progress report (Patreon)

Hi everyone, 

Following the previous news, the worst fears turned out to be true and the background artist of the game disappeared, I don't know if he will ever come back or if anything happened to him, maybe he will come back one day, maybe not. This is the first time something like this has happened to me since I started trying to make games, but I always knew that there was a real risk when you work only on the internet that this kind of situation would end up happening, even though I considered myself relatively lucky until now, it was a scenario I always envisaged. However, because of this, the development has suffered a lot of difficulties in the previous month, I had to try to find a replacement, and we haven't succeeded yet (still trying to recruit atm) but I've managed to find a method to create some new backgrounds and in a style that I hope is similar enough for most of the environments planned for the future, a mix between existing assets, Photoshop stuff, and artificial intelligence. You can see the result in the art samples that follow this news.

It should hopefully work in 80% of the cases, and in the missing 20%, we will try to find a freelance who could output the missing part. There will be a small change in style, but I'm trying to do my best so that it won't be too visible, you can tell me what you think, I hope it will be ok.

Coming back to Divimera R9, I'm writing this news now that I've found a sort of solution to what was needed for R9 in terms of BG art, so currently everything is more or less back to normal and the development is going on normally, I don't think this disruption will have a significant impact on the release of the R9, probably a week added I would say.

The washerwoman scene is now almost finished, and we are finishing part that takes place in the abandoned village. Because of the unique situation where we didn't have a BG artist anymore, we did this update backward starting with the village part and the end of the update (the one we could do without new backgrounds), and now that a solution has been found for the abandoned village, we're going back to the beginning of the update, all things considered, and given the situation, I must say it went pretty okay overall.

I hope that this kind of incident is behind us and that the new BG art will not shock you.