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Yall I'm gonna be so fr I think I have completely lost count of how many CGs I've done. like i'm p sure in between updates i've been counting differently bc maybe sometimes i'd count a variant as a new CG and sometimes i wouldn't to humble myself i guess.

but! you know what i do know!! how many CGs I have left to do!!!

so that's how ill be counting them. at least for day 3 updates (I'll also put in bold all the sections that have been fully completed to make the brain go brr)

Background edits (10/10)

Backgrounds (3/3)

New character sprites (2/2)

Special character sprite bundle thing (8/8)

Pixel character sprites (0/1)

CGs (7 left)

Dialogue (72%)

Free time events (4/4) (100%)

Music (1.5/?)

I've been implementing some really yummy dialogue, though it is very easy to miss since it requires you to talk to character/interact with things multiple times (something that hasn't really been explicitly encouraged (or even rewarded) until now). Hopefully I left some certain starting dialogues in enough of a cliffhanger that it'll compel people to talk again and see what the fuck they're talking about

And if most people don't do that. well. at least if you do do it you get to have some very interesting information that almost nobody else has! theories are 100% encouraged, so when 1.2 comes out feel free to go wild lol

Finally I get to use this gif properly

Anyways! Like before, this progression chart post thing will be exclusively of day 3, the day before the trial, and that's where all my dev efforts will be directed towards. The full chapter 1 is more than half finished, now we just need the final home stretch and you'll finally be able to see this gay tragedy I've been cooking

Hope you guys will stick along for the ride :D

Background edits (there won't be any new backgrounds per se, but the old ones will get a lot of variations that will require more or less work, so imma keep track of that) (4/7)

Backgrounds (0/1) (edit: whoops I forgot there is a new background lol)

Tilesets (0/0)

New character sprites (0.5/1) (the number could easily go up, don't take the 1 for granted)

Special character sprite bundle thing (2/8)

Pixel character sprites (0/1)

CGs (0/17 at least) (idk the count might be off. These things tend to go way out of proportion)

Dialogue (0.5%)

Free time events (0/3) (0%)

Music (0/?)

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man what happened to my Undertale file

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Background edits (10/10)

Backgrounds (3/3)

New character sprites (2/2)

Special character sprite bundle thing (8/8)

Pixel character sprites (0/1)

CGs (12/?) (...lost track again)

Dialogue (69%) (nice)

Free time events (4/4) (100%)

Music (1.5/?) (did an extended version of an existing track)

FINISHED ALL THE BACKGROUNDS I NEEDED TO DO WE HAVE NEVER BEEN MORE FUCKING BACK. day 4 will only need one (1) new background and no edits so that aspect of game development will get easier. unlike literally everything else bc there will be a lot of programming and cutscenes to do

aight so!! besides all the new sprites and background changes and everything this next section i gotta work on is very art-heavy. there's a lot of scenes i really wanna draw because i think the body language and knowing where the characters are in the space would make it much more impactful than just sprites, but that is also messing me up because there's a CG with. fucking 6 characters at the same time. with changing expressions and poses. i already fought for my fucking life doing the traitor reveal gym shot and that was completely static with the same expressions. god please power up my autism to make me draw fully motivated

at least there's no perspective and the background is even lazier than doing the wood plank pattern. so. there's that

but anyways! besides the art explosion yall r gonna get I've also been working a lot on actually doing a script instead of rawdogging dialogue. i find it to be very helpful :D ! Chapter 2 has been like a hazy set of ideas to me for most game development and now that I've actually started to script it out I've seen it become something much more solid and playable. who knew that planning ahead made making things easier

Finally I get to use this gif properly

Anyways! Like before, this progression chart post thing will be exclusively of day 3, the day before the trial, and that's where all my dev efforts will be directed towards. The full chapter 1 is more than half finished, now we just need the final home stretch and you'll finally be able to see this gay tragedy I've been cooking

Hope you guys will stick along for the ride :D

Background edits (there won't be any new backgrounds per se, but the old ones will get a lot of variations that will require more or less work, so imma keep track of that) (4/7)

Backgrounds (0/1) (edit: whoops I forgot there is a new background lol)

Tilesets (0/0)

New character sprites (0.5/1) (the number could easily go up, don't take the 1 for granted)

Special character sprite bundle thing (2/8)

Pixel character sprites (0/1)

CGs (0/17 at least) (idk the count might be off. These things tend to go way out of proportion)

Dialogue (0.5%)

Free time events (0/3) (0%)

Music (0/?)

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alright chat new language update happened now GC stands for GayCube

Big things coming

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...did i seriously just notice that i misspelled CG

Big things coming

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Big things coming

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Background edits (9/10)

Backgrounds (2/3) (lot of progress done! >:3)

New character sprites (2/2)

Special character sprite bundle thing (8/8) (YIPPEE)

Pixel character sprites (0/1)

CGs (9.5/17) (finished sketching one of them and started lineart)

Dialogue (55%)

Free time events (4/4) (100%)

Music (1/?)

I've been working a lot on the brand new backgrounds as of late (alongside finishing the sprite bundle which I'm very proud of) and I actually really like how one of them came out. I can't wait for you guys to see it, I think it's got a very nice atmosphere

I've also been trying to do more songs, trying to incorporate leitmotifs n all that, but none of them really satisfied me so they might rot in the drafts forever. I actually wanted to make them for a more tender, emotional section and for a more fun and playful one, but I remembered one of the songs Bree made for me that would be perfect for one of those scenarios, and I literally just found another song that's royalty free and can be used for commercial projects and I was thinking of straight up adding that. So yeag.

Man I really gotta amplify the OST, I barely got tracks for anything and they loop a lot. I already extended Heartbeat (the song that plays when you get chased by a boulder) so it's not so repetitive but I should do that for more songs

Finally I get to use this gif properly

Anyways! Like before, this progression chart post thing will be exclusively of day 3, the day before the trial, and that's where all my dev efforts will be directed towards. The full chapter 1 is more than half finished, now we just need the final home stretch and you'll finally be able to see this gay tragedy I've been cooking

Hope you guys will stick along for the ride :D

Background edits (there won't be any new backgrounds per se, but the old ones will get a lot of variations that will require more or less work, so imma keep track of that) (4/7)

Backgrounds (0/1) (edit: whoops I forgot there is a new background lol)

Tilesets (0/0)

New character sprites (0.5/1) (the number could easily go up, don't take the 1 for granted)

Special character sprite bundle thing (2/8)

Pixel character sprites (0/1)

CGs (0/17 at least) (idk the count might be off. These things tend to go way out of proportion)

Dialogue (0.5%)

Free time events (0/3) (0%)

Music (0/?)

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OKAY SO I??? FINISHED THE SPRITE BUNDLE????????

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FREE TIMES ARE COMPLETELY AND FULLY DONE WHO CHEERED

Background edits (9/10) (JUST ONE MORE. ONE MORE AND I'LL BE FREE)

Backgrounds (0/3) (.......whoops)

New character sprites (2/2) (I realised I kinda accidentally did another one. also this one won't even be used until chapter 2.1. why am I like this)

Special character sprite bundle thing (5/8)

Pixel character sprites (0/1)

CGs (9/17) (after some more calculations n planning n stuff i think it'll actually end up being around 17 CGs total? of course there will be some with more effort put into them since they'll have stuff like changed expressions and poses, but as general scenes I think that's how many there'll be)

Dialogue (50%)

Free time events (4/4) (100%) (WOOO)

Music (1/?)

Dialogue is only halfway through even though i've made progress up to late evening. and that's because there's gonna be kind of a big event happening with tons of dialogue

originally I wanted to get a lot more ambitious with it, with special separate individual scenes depending on the character you spent the most free times with, but I decided to scale it down for my sanity (and also bc i found no way to actually implement those scenes in like. a narratively cohesive way. like why would this character do that if you were nice to them 3 days ago)

tbh, now that i've made the event have far less narrative branches, I wonder how big of a percentage in day 3's dialogue it'll actually end up taking........ still a lot because there's gonna be so much bullshit happening in the span of like an hour. but there has also been so much bullshit happening before that. i don't know anymore

Finally I get to use this gif properly

Anyways! Like before, this progression chart post thing will be exclusively of day 3, the day before the trial, and that's where all my dev efforts will be directed towards. The full chapter 1 is more than half finished, now we just need the final home stretch and you'll finally be able to see this gay tragedy I've been cooking

Hope you guys will stick along for the ride :D

Background edits (there won't be any new backgrounds per se, but the old ones will get a lot of variations that will require more or less work, so imma keep track of that) (4/7)

Backgrounds (0/1) (edit: whoops I forgot there is a new background lol)

Tilesets (0/0)

New character sprites (0.5/1) (the number could easily go up, don't take the 1 for granted)

Special character sprite bundle thing (2/8)

Pixel character sprites (0/1)

CGs (0/17 at least) (idk the count might be off. These things tend to go way out of proportion)

Dialogue (0.5%)

Free time events (0/3) (0%)

Music (0/?)

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Update: I ended up Not using this one

I don't tend to show fully-finished CGs but i absolutely love how her face looked in this one and i'm not sure if i'll actually end up using it so i gotta show yall now

she scrungy

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Background edits (7/9) (another background edit came up. but luckily it's a small one so that'll get done soon)

Backgrounds (0/1)

New character sprites (1/1) (it won't even be used for day 3 why did i put this)

Special character sprite bundle thing (5/8)

Pixel character sprites (0/1)

CGs (6/17 at least)

Dialogue (30%)

Free time events (2/4) (50%)

Music (1/?)

Very significant progress has been done! I finished the most and the least complicated of the free times this batch, and now I only have to do the ones with mid difficulty. I also got two more sprites of the special bundle down, so that's another W

There was also a bit of a mindfuckery moment with 'if else' stuff and meeting requirements for the special free times, but I think that's been solved. probably. my brain hurts

Finally I get to use this gif properly

Anyways! Like before, this progression chart post thing will be exclusively of day 3, the day before the trial, and that's where all my dev efforts will be directed towards. The full chapter 1 is more than half finished, now we just need the final home stretch and you'll finally be able to see this gay tragedy I've been cooking

Hope you guys will stick along for the ride :D

Background edits (there won't be any new backgrounds per se, but the old ones will get a lot of variations that will require more or less work, so imma keep track of that) (4/7)

Backgrounds (0/1) (edit: whoops I forgot there is a new background lol)

Tilesets (0/0)

New character sprites (0.5/1) (the number could easily go up, don't take the 1 for granted)

Special character sprite bundle thing (2/8)

Pixel character sprites (0/1)

CGs (0/17 at least) (idk the count might be off. These things tend to go way out of proportion)

Dialogue (0.5%)

Free time events (0/3) (0%)

Music (0/?)

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Yeag

RPGMaker, my old nemesis

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Background edits (6/8)

Backgrounds (0/1)

New character sprites (1/1) (it won't even be used for day 3 why did i put this)

Special character sprite bundle thing (3/8) (added another one god dammit)

Pixel character sprites (0/1)

CGs (3/17 at least) (we're goin)

Dialogue (20%)

Free time events (0/4) (15%)

Music (0/?)

right now I'm on the free time section. I noticed some people point out how some of the second free time round CGs weren't as cool since they didn't have the changing expression thingie (cough cough alex cough cough) so i. decided to overcompensate by making a free time with THREE wholeass expression changing CGs. some of them even changing body poses entirely instead of just the face. it is torture but it's coming out gorgeous

as is custom, there are only two 'important' free times this round, but since they need some special requirements to access them due to character story reasons, the other two possible free times also have either CGs or lil nuggets of info about the characters

I know it's a bit strange to put kind of a wall between the actual good scenes. but just. trust me it makes sense why the wall is there in-game. also i want to reward players with wildly different options and dialogue when they choose different stuff throughout the story to actually give them a good incentive to go back and see everything

Finally I get to use this gif properly

Anyways! Like before, this progression chart post thing will be exclusively of day 3, the day before the trial, and that's where all my dev efforts will be directed towards. The full chapter 1 is more than half finished, now we just need the final home stretch and you'll finally be able to see this gay tragedy I've been cooking

Hope you guys will stick along for the ride :D

Background edits (there won't be any new backgrounds per se, but the old ones will get a lot of variations that will require more or less work, so imma keep track of that) (4/7)

Backgrounds (0/1) (edit: whoops I forgot there is a new background lol)

Tilesets (0/0)

New character sprites (0.5/1) (the number could easily go up, don't take the 1 for granted)

Special character sprite bundle thing (2/8)

Pixel character sprites (0/1)

CGs (0/17 at least) (idk the count might be off. These things tend to go way out of proportion)

Dialogue (0.5%)

Free time events (0/3) (0%)

Music (0/?)

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I don't tend to show fully-finished CGs but i absolutely love how her face looked in this one and i'm not sure if i'll actually end up using it so i gotta show yall now

she scrungy

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you know you're cooked when the event scroll bar looks like this

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you know you're cooked when the event scroll bar looks like this

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I FINALLY GOT TO DO A SCENE I'VE BEEN WANTING TO MAKE SINCE THE BEGINNING AAAAAAA. NOT ONLY THAT BUT I ALSO MANAGED TO CONNECT IT TO SOME OTHER THREADS AND MAKE IT ADVANCE THE PLOT BESIDES IT BEING. FOR THE FUNNIES. I cannot wait for people to see this omg

Background edits (5/8)

Backgrounds (0/1)

New character sprites (1/1) (it won't even be used for day 3 why did i put this)

Special character sprite bundle thing (3/7) (ended up removing a sprite)

Pixel character sprites (0/1)

CGs (1/17 at least) (the one I've done has a lot of expressions and changing poses so it's a p big deal!)

Dialogue (18%)

Free time events (0/3) (0%)

Music (0/?)

finished the lunch dialogue and i'm really close to finally getting to the free times! these ones will be a pretty decent task since, even though there (probably) won't be any alt dialogue based on previous free time choices (due to. reasons) they're gonna have those CGs that alternate expressions a lot and those are always a ride and a half

I should probably get to writing the script for those to make things easier

also i finished the expressions for the sprite i mentioned in the last update :3

Finally I get to use this gif properly

Anyways! Like before, this progression chart post thing will be exclusively of day 3, the day before the trial, and that's where all my dev efforts will be directed towards. The full chapter 1 is more than half finished, now we just need the final home stretch and you'll finally be able to see this gay tragedy I've been cooking

Hope you guys will stick along for the ride :D

Background edits (there won't be any new backgrounds per se, but the old ones will get a lot of variations that will require more or less work, so imma keep track of that) (4/7)

Backgrounds (0/1) (edit: whoops I forgot there is a new background lol)

Tilesets (0/0)

New character sprites (0.5/1) (the number could easily go up, don't take the 1 for granted)

Special character sprite bundle thing (2/8)

Pixel character sprites (0/1)

CGs (0/17 at least) (idk the count might be off. These things tend to go way out of proportion)

Dialogue (0.5%)

Free time events (0/3) (0%)

Music (0/?)