✦ Who's Wet Cat Pathetic And Who's Kicked Puppy Pathetic?

What would be the LIs favorite animes?

This took me back to my teens lol! 💜

✦ What would be the LIs favorite animes?

✦ Amon: Gurren Lagann / Trigun (1998)

✦ Raeya: Kill la Kill / The way of the Househusband

✦ Gael: Violet Evergarden / Banana Fish

✦ Envy: Anohana / Monster

✦ Ara: Pretty Cure / Haikyuu!!

✦ Xal: Keroro Gunso / Mobile Suit Gundam (any season tbh) / Evangelion / Soul Eater (etc......)

✦ Father Pride: Chi's Sweet Home (he thought it was cute) / K-On! (Watched it with Ara—cried)

✦ Lázaro: Puella Magi Madoka Magica / Ouran High School Host Club

✦ Cécile: Berserk / Elfen Lied

✦ ARTSTYLE / SPRITES UPDATE!

Hello folks! ⭐

A new work week begins, and that means our first official update about our new sprites is here! We've been gathering feedback from you here on tumblr, our official discord server, instagram and tiktok, and we've made some changes to the sprites that we hope satisfy the vast majority of you. First of all, thank you all so so much again and again for your feedback and for the time you are dedicating on helping us! It has been truly unvaluable for us as we try to navigate this change with as much care as possible and respecting our supporters' opinion.

So, let's jump into it! ✦ GAEL

✦ IMPLEMENTED FEEDBACK:

—His face has been edited to better represent his features as some of them had become lost in the first version. You'll notice the shape of his jaw, cheekbones, nose, and eyebrows, as well as his lips, have been worked on to correctly characterize him. —Added a bit more shine to his eyes —Lighted up his cloak and added more golden details —Lowered his cummerbund / corset so his ribcage actually is able to move (poor man) —Reverted to Daddy Long Legs Classy Pants because we didn't think the new mix of tight pants + knee-high boots suited his personality. He is a demure man. ✦ XAL

So, Xal's going to be a bit harder than Gael as both Raquel and I (as writer and artist) think our vision of Xal has changed a bit since we started working on the demo, design-wise. We are trying to keep as many features / details from his original face into his new one (and of course we want to keep the essence of the old design), but it's true that we want something a bit more different for him and this new version may be it. So let us know your thoughts!

✦ IMPLEMENTED FEEDBACK: — Recovered some of Xal's key features as they had gotten lost during the development of the new sprite. The arch of his nose has been edited as well as the shape of his lips and the shape of his chin and cheek. — His eyebrows are now thicker as they were in his original design — The choker and the anti tragus piercing are back! — Lighted up his jacket and the cushioned part of it, not to the point of the previous design as we want to do some more trial and error with that — Made the marks on his jacket more white / more visible! — Made the undertone of his skin more pinkish

AS ALWAYS, all feedback is accepted and welcome! We may not reply to every comment (as we've gotten quite a few) but we read all of your opinions. We hope this new changes are welcome and positive!

✦ Lost in Limbo Devlog #14 | 12.02.24

And November is over! This month has been filled with paperwork, organizing receipts, and so on, which isn't very fun, but it's part of the job!

We are making great progress with everything overall; merch has been ordered and we have received proof and approved it; our voice actors are already delivering the voiced names y'all paid for during our Kickstarter campaign; and more! Let's see it in detail, shall we? :^)

Our dear Raquel has been working hard (I think I say this every devlog, but damn) on reworking the sprites for the extended demo now that the Special postcards for the Kickstarter are done! For this next batch, she'll be working on Ara and Amon, so here's a WIP of how Ara is looking so far! 💜

I think you can see how her design is already more detailed and cohesive in some areas. We'll most likely ask for feedback when Amon is ready too, to test the waters with both characters like we did with Gael and Xal :^)

The street is coming to life! This background is almost ready thanks to Astro. We'll have four new locations in the Extended Demo to help with the pacing and the introduction of our world and story to (hopefully) make it perfect. Or something close to it!

In the writing department, I've so far added 7000 words to the prologue. We have one flavor choice, two personality choices (and several personality reactions), and three "relationship choices". These basically shape your relationship with Evie in this case. For example, you'll be able to choose if you are intimate friends, are warm to each other, or if you prefer something less physical / touchy. And Evie will remember that!

And this is just so far. While River has a kind of "set" personality, I want people to be able to shape some aspects of their life.

In the writing department I should also include the documents I've provided to our VAs, and to our composer, Tomás. More on that below!

We have a proper help screen! Wohoo! 💜

Now you can enjoy Ren'py's default help screen but looking a bit nicer. This is for those who are not familiar with Ren'py's usual keybindings and stuff :^)

Nothing else on the programming side this month. I've focused on writing the script and that's going to be my main job until I can actually start programming something!

As I said before, our beloved voice actors are already working on the voiced names! In fact, Xal's VA (Francfil Pontañeles) and Pride's (Pat Langner) already recorded them! A little surprise is that we have been able to add our default MC's name, River, as a voiced name. For those of you who want to play with that name, you'll also enjoy some voiced lines!

What else—ah! We are already working with Tomás for our OST, and we have settled in 19 tracks total. Those are even more tracks than we expected! This is thanks to you all, and especially thanks to those of you who ordered more merch via Backerkit. You made those four extra tracks possible!

Our merch has been checked and so far only the pins are missing a preview and therefore our approval. We had to edit some files (beginner's mistake!) but being the first time we do this, I'd say things have been rather smoothly! We'd like to be able to start shipping this month, but it may not be possible. Which is a bummer! But well, we settled in December / January, so January it is, if nothing happens!

(Don't mind the colors being too flashy here—they will look more cohesive in game!)

OH, and the last extra bit! I've been working on the personality choices, as you all know, and Kayden has been helping me make the icons that will appear next to those choices for those who are colorblind. An extra thing to make them pop and differentiate them better! I think they are pretty self-explanatory, and if not, well—that means we have to give those icons a twist!

November has been a chaotic month for me due to the aftermath of the floods and my vacation week. The rest of the team has also had their good amount of irl stuff happening around them, but we've made it! The new year is approaching faster than I thought, as per usual, and I hope we can finish 2024 on a good note!

And that's all! As always, please take care, have fun, and enjoy the rest of the week!

cécile brain worms be upon ye

So Zoro, where did the bear guy send you?

i want to see... this convo...

Hey yo I have a tiny question, we got mermaid Gael, what would the other LI be as mermaids. (Like would Amon be like a whale shark, etc.) hopefully this makes since also bye I love yall 🥺

✦ The LIs as mermaids!

✦ Amon: Tiger shark

✦ Raeya: Leopard eel

✦ Gael: Lionfish

✦ Envy: Sea slug (Not joking, they're cool as fuck)

✦ Ara: Betta fish (a pink one)

✦ Xal: Neon tetra

✦ Father Pride: Blue whale

✦ Lázaro: Mandarinfish

✦ Cécile: Orca

"two years ago usopp wore it to show his admiration for pirates but now only luffy and zoro wear it. it's a cute detail that shows they are both moving towards the same direction." love them and their matching belts ❤️💚

if you followed me for touchstarved content im so sorry im locked in and focused on becoming the one and only cécile content creator

Alvitr: You know, Qin, sometimes I think you say things just to hear yourself talk. Qin: What do you want me to do? Ignore myself?

[Toon x Mobster] drawing dump (～￣▽￣)～

Jack's stupid inconsistent side profiles, I'll fix that one day.