♥ NaNoRenO Week 4 ♥

(This is a post originally from Patreon, that I'm now mirroring over onto the project for anyone interested in the process!) 

Hi Everyone! ♥

Week 4 of NaNoRenO is all finished!

There's a couple of days left of the month-- And I'm going to need all of that to get my VN into shape for release! ><

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- PAINTING!!! -

This week was all about getting the painting done!

It's been quite a lot of work-- Something about 6 paintings all at once resulted in most painting sessions with the same type of headache I get when I try and cram too many python tutorials...

My first day was pretty strong!:

I scanned in the updates as I made them-- At first they were SUPER pale, and looked pretty weird:

But as the week went along, things got better and better:

I'm really happy with how they all turned out!

Though I think after this, I'm good to going back to digital for a little while... I'm all painted out for now haha; It also ate more into my week than I was expecting so this week I've been scambling a little since.

There were some other art stuff too-- I got the CG all finished up! (With a couple of code-mishaps along the way lol):

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- UI!! -

I'm also using the CG's background for a lot of my UI related stuff (As it's my only fullscreen background.) : -

The UI is....gettting there. Honestly doesn't look too shabby!

As I think(?) I mentioned in another post, I decided to use Feinks' Easy Ren'Py GUI (as well as their outline shader) and it's helped speed the process of customizing the UI along nicely.

I'm also in the process of setting up the itch page-- I'm getting excited!!

(Thumbnail still subject to change/tweaking.)

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- WRITING!! -

The writing's almost done! I should be finished with it sometime tomorrow.

Currently it's at 8.6k! (and that's about where it'll probably stay)-- which is really good for me!

I'm proud of the month's efforts!

Though I need to hurry-- That NaNoRenO countdown clock's no joke!!

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- MONTH TWO ELECTRIC BOOGALOO -

Heading into April, I of course want to get the watercolors done for my character sprites. Same for the CG (As well as a couple additional CGs I didn't have time for this month).

I think this VN might need another month of work... luckily a lot of it is just more art, the story's pretty set.

Now I just gotta finish everything up and submit!