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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/?)

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Putting the first coding loop I've ever added to this game! I've tested it a bit and they're easy to understand, so I'll probably add more as the story goes

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Quick announcement

Hello! I've made some changes to the Kenikari itch.io page and I would like to announce them here

For starters, now it displays a bulletin of info of stuff on the game like how many GCs and endings it has, and a bit of the type of gameplay (since i realised that the screenshots I put didn't really show it)

But also, and here's the big thing

Now you can tip the game!

It's still free, of course, but I made it so that you can give me some pocket change when you download it if you feel so inclined :3 This won't solve my life and provide a stable income forever and ever, but I think it'd be nice to give people the option to support this project. No matter how small the contribution, all tips are greatly appreciated and i will kiss you on the mouth if you give me a single cent. Do not test me I will love you forever

^ this is me loving u forever

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since last year I did a halloween doodle to celebrate, I decided to do one again this year!

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I like the way your brain works, friend

darker day is Detah having a beach episode except it's actually him finding a subterranean cavern with water below his house (cave). so he invites everyone over to go and have fun

brightest night is the city going through a power outage so they go to alex's house and make a bonfire in his garden and tell stories and roast marshmallows and take a proper look at the stars bc god knows you can't do that in a city with shitton light pollution

fun lil kenikari fact:

originally the game was meant to have a sub-name (like she-ra: princess of power or your turn to die: death game by majority)

it was meant to go "Kenikari: darker day and brightest night"

it ended up being scrapped because i always shortened it to kenikari in my mind and it didn't really add anything to the story or themes. or was even remotely relevant to anything that happened in the plot. it was just a random phrase I came up with

and also because i legit forgot i had a sub-name when i was making the title screen and itch.io page

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fun lil kenikari fact:

originally the game was meant to have a sub-name (like she-ra: princess of power or your turn to die: death game by majority)

it was meant to go "Kenikari: darker day and brightest night"

it ended up being scrapped because i always shortened it to kenikari in my mind and it didn't really add anything to the story or themes. or was even remotely relevant to anything that happened in the plot. it was just a random phrase I came up with

and also because i legit forgot i had a sub-name when i was making the title screen and itch.io page

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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 (3/8)

Pixel character sprites (0/1)

CGs (0/17 at least)

Dialogue (2%)

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

Music (0/?)

Did some pretty decent progress these past 2 weeks! I finished day 3's breakfast scene, and figured out a pretty decent way to make all these events go together cohesively. I finished one of the special sprites bundle thing but I still gotta add a few more facial expressions to fully call it done. But yea! We balling

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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a scrapped Mako hairstyle :P