Saturday Update! (Patreon)

It's another bright sunny Saturday! [ sorry to my many American friends who have been boiling in summer heat! ]

Today's update is gonna be partially my normal update, and partially going over an impromptu mental health break that I'll be taking next week.

First the update!

Last week I did a lot of sprite work, but unfortunately I can't really show anything? I swear on my left tit, I drew up two fully custom special sprites along with several new expressions- but they're all for difficult late-game areas and VERY spoilery. I would love to show everyone since I'm actually quite proud of my work [ I think this is my best expression work yet ] but I can't. It's just too juicy and it'll have to stay under wraps. I know. It's killing me too, I love adding lots of pictures to these updates ;-;

I also shuffled some assets around in an executive decision to move resources where they'd have more impact. Which is a verbally bloated way to say 'I removed two planned cgs because they were boring and put in a new one that's way more fun'. I just have to draw one new sprite to make up for the cgs I removed [ It was art of the player talking to Richard... I don't know why I felt that needed to be a cg and not a sprite on a background but here we are fixing it x'D ]

The new cg is to beef up a violent sequence that I won't go into too much detail about- but it replaces a long cut-to-black and makes the scene more brutal.

Sorry again for the lack of images but I really want to keep the good spoilers to myself :3c

Derek's path is about 98% done in terms of sprites. I was hoping to be 100% done but I didn't quite manage to polish up everything in the last two endings. I can get that hammered in a couple of days when I return to work. [ I mostly just need to draw that one sprite of Richard turned around to replace the cgs I took out ]

Which is a perfect segue into my break!

So I'm sure you guys have noticed me complaining about my adrenaline based health problems lately. I've been really fighting it over the last couple of weeks, but my stress levels have only gone up. [ and the state of the world isn't helping at all :/ ]

On top of the weird adrenaline shenanigans, I've had a lot of extra work come up in regard to my Etsy store products. I've been trying my best to keep up with everything, but last week I ended almost every work day at 8:30 or 9 pm, sweating and shaking with a big stress headache. 

Adrenaline has flooded my system for about 3 weeks now and it really makes it hard to eat or sleep, which in turn impacts how much work I can handle. I've now lost a noticeable amount of weight and while the diet industry says that's great, I beg to differ! 

So, perhaps a bit overdue, I've decided to stop straining to try and put out the work and to take a week off for mental health.

Next month will still be a normal work month as well :) I'm sorry about the short notice on this, but I was waiting to see if I really REALLY had to take a break... and I do x'D

Thank you so much for your support and understanding. I love working on this project. Sometimes maybe too much XD But I am so thankful that I can, and that's completely thanks to you. 

I'll touch base with everyone next Saturday which will be the beginning of a new work month! Please stay safe! <3