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Behind the scenes: Background art
Since things are a bit barren for Patreon posts here lately, as sprite and cg art related stuff is slowing down a bit and I've been focusing time towards getting the next bit of content released. I thought it'd be neat for a little discussion dev talk about some bg art since it's been a long time since we've finished all of the bg art for the game. :PFirst off, sadly I don't have very much progress that shows off how some of t...
Throwback Thursday: Juliet Margaretta Hillingham XII
Our 4th week of Throwback Thursday! In case you missed one of the previous ones, you can always take a look at them with the links below! Have a look and enjoy learning a little extra about your favorite character's growth during development! ^^[Miki]https://www.patreon.com/posts/throwback-miki-57980399[Nova]https://www.patreon.com/posts/throwback-nova-58304733[Rachel]https://www.patreon.com/posts/throwback-rachel-58563348When the project fir...
November news post #2
It's about midway through November, so it's right on time for another news post update! This will be a bit on the shorter side as a head up!General update news regarding v0.20 and if you saw the previous news post, I've mentioned some personal day job issues/concerns and thoughts about what I might have to do regarding some of that stuff. I'd like to say that for the time being the day job situation is at least somewhat stable unt...
Music preview: Dumby
Yet another track done!Depending on how things look without trying to add extra time to v0.20 release. We might be able to add this 4th new track in this month for the new game release, but of course as always! We'll list everything new being added to the game in the game version notes, etc.This track you hear above will end up being used during many of the game's silly/comedy moments that pop up along the way! The question now that remai...
Summer Festival Wallpaper: Early concept look!
I've got a little early preview of our upcoming wallpaper for everyone today! It isn't too much yet, but we should see this one finished later this month.Back in Summer, we did a poll to ask everyone who would be featured in a Summer themed wallpaper. We ended up with Heather, Erika and Miki as a result to turn it into more of a scene being played out. (A bit similar to our recent Halloween wallpaper)We're hoping to do 2 versions of t...
Throwback Thursday: Rachel Solbrig
Our 3rd week of Throwback Thursday! In case you missed one of the previous ones, you can always take a look at them with the links below! Have a look and enjoy learning a little extra about your favorite character's growth during development! ^^[Miki]https://www.patreon.com/posts/throwback-miki-57980399[Nova]https://www.patreon.com/posts/throwback-nova-58304733When the project started, it began with placeholder 3d assets. Something that we ca...
Sprite art preview: Brandon Wilkins
One of our final major sprite requests to end this year includes Brandon's sprite! (Well, sort of..) For those of you who have been around for nearly over a year and played older builds of the game. You'd know that in a early version of Erika's route from long ago, that we saw Brandon's sprite in some form... Well! We had his sprite done at the time, but we never had more than just a default expression because we didn't know i...
November news post #1 (Public)
It's time again! That time to cover what's going on and toss out some updates!So as many of you following along during the end of October know, we couldn't quite get v0.20 out as we hoped for Halloween. I went over it a good bit and I've been trying to get everything wrapped up for the script to pass along asap for the editing/engine phase before it's released, so once again I'm truly sorry with this.We'll have v0.20 o...
Throwback Thursday: Nova Pascucci
Our 2nd week of Throwback Thursday! If you missed out the previous ones, you can check them out below! Follow along for some fun behind the scene looks and information on your favorite character's growth in development! ^^https://www.patreon.com/posts/throwback-miki-57980399The project first started with placeholder 3d assets, which we can see above in some images of early Nova. There has been quite a bit of adjustments and changes from her v...
Sprite Creator expansion pack 1: Preview #2
(Before we start, here's links to our previous sprite creator tool posts/previews to see more about it. :P )https://www.patreon.com/posts/behind-scenes-52895735 https://www.patreon.com/posts/behind-scenes-2-53136910 https://www.patreon.com/posts/behind-scenes-3-53700815 (Here's our previous preview posted the other day, featuring the new hairstyles included in this expansion pack.)https://www.patreon.com/posts/sprite-creator-1-58215000Wel...
Sprite Creator expansion pack 1: Preview #1
(Before we start, here's links to our previous sprite creator tool posts/previews to see more about it. :P )https://www.patreon.com/posts/behind-scenes-52895735 https://www.patreon.com/posts/behind-scenes-2-53136910 https://www.patreon.com/posts/behind-scenes-3-53700815 Our sprite artist has been pretty busy getting the last of our major sprite requests done for us before they start powering through Kickstarter OC we have that's been requ...
Happy Halloween! & Last minute reminder!
Hope everyone enjoys their spooky fun filled day! I'll probably end up having some spooky movies on in the background here shortly enough. :PThis weekend has been ultra busy for me, cause normally with my personal day job and free time, my schedule is setup where I balance MA project work during the week and have the weekends off for free time. But this weekend I've been really busy trying to get things for v0.20 caught up so we can get i...
October news post #3
If you haven't seen our previous news post to kick off October, you can check it out below! ^^https://www.patreon.com/posts/october-news-1-57073387https://www.patreon.com/posts/october-news-2-57494607As October is fast approaching it's end and each passing day has me putting on more layers of clothing lol. It feels like this year is going to be over before I even realize since October felt like a blur to me.Let's jump right into the m...
Holiday wallpaper: Halloween 2021 (Zoey & Bridget)
We wanted to try something a little different with this wallpaper compared to our previous ones. :P This one features a detailed background and so we hope it makes it stick out really nicely compared to the more simplistic backgrounds in previous holiday wallpapers.The main image displayed is 1280x720. Second image displayed after that is 1920x1080. The final image displayed is 2560x1440.Hope everyone has a Spooky Halloween! Final news post for O...
Throwback Thursday: Miki Wallenberg
Moving forward to wrap up 2021 and maybe a little bit into the start of 2022. I'd like to do these fun little throwback Thursday posts for anyone who has joined the Patreon more recently. Think of it as a bit of a behind the scenes and learning more about your favorite characters!When we first started up the project back in late 2019, we didn't have the assets anywhere near where they are today. We can see this with the main image preview...
Voting Poll: Final Gui portrait vs no portrait
Hi everyone! ^^ Hope your October is going well and thanks for being patient while waiting on the next game versions to release here.We bring you a very, very, very early mock up for the gui elements. Mainly don't pay too much attention to how things visually look yet, as it's mainly just to give myself a early look at the placement of where buttons and stuff will go. Expect more changes coming.With that said, we're going to focus on ...
CG scene preview: Mr. Whiskers hiding spot
Oh Rachel... Couldn't you have picked a better hiding spot? >.<We're sharing previews of a upcoming episode 4 cg scene today! This one will be included in both v0.20 for supporters and v0.19 for the public as part of episode 4 becoming open to the public once episode 5 is out for supporters. ^^There's a total of 19 variants overall, but by default it's actually 12 variants. (The remaining ones will be up to you to unlock along the...
CG concept preview: Mr. Whsikers hiding spot
We got a preview at a upcoming cg scene coming to episode 4! This was possible because we had a awkward period between other cg art needed, so we're getting a extra moment visualized for a previous episode coming soon! :PSince this is for the already existing episode 4, we'll probably see this come out for both the public v0.19 and supporter v0.20 versions this month.I knew after writing for episode 4 that I really thought the idea of Rac...
October news post #2
If you haven't seen our previous news post to kick off October, you can check it out below! ^^https://www.patreon.com/posts/october-news-1-57073387I'll give a heads up, that this post won't be very big. Right now there isn't a ton to say or go over that hasn't already been addressed in the previous post.The main thing you're all here for is probably the question of when v0.20 will be out exactly, right? :PI'm not purpo...
Sprite art preview: Sadie Isaacs
Sometime in the not too distant future of MA (Not v0.20), we'll be meeting Sadie! Without spoiling anything major, we'll be seeing her within Bridget's route mainly.Sadie has been mentioned long before in the game versions before v0.14, but only for a very brief mention. If you have played those older versions, you might recall there being a gaming tournament that took place during the festival. It's easy to miss, but the name dro...
(ep 5 Spoiler warning) CG scene preview: Kickboxing peeking!
[Future Content details ahead, read on or view only if you wish! We don't go into great detail explaining the cg scenes, but enough to get an idea for what is going on at points in upcoming episode content.]Who thought it was a good idea to peek on the kickboxing team...? Let's just hope they don't get caught! <.<So this is the final cg art planned for ep 5! I don't think we've had anything like this in older versions of the g...
Discord is now open to the public!
Join with the link below!https://discord.gg/9UDzMbMWe hope that many of our awesome fans who have been following us on Twitter, Itch.io, F95zone, among many other areas will join the many other amazing fans who little by little helped build the server into where it is standing today! ^^Reminder, if you join and wish to attain that neat little "Patreon Supporter" role. All you have to do is support us at the $1 tier once to earn it. You...
Music preview: Bully
October brings us another new track! I believe this brings us up to 3 new tracks for v0.20 coming up within another week or two with how things are looking. "Late Night" "Showtime" and now "Bully".This track heard above if you can't already get some guesses by how tense and unnerving it might come across as, not to mention the track name itself. :P This will be heard when we first meet Heather and during extreme moment...
October news post #1 (Public)
A new month, a new er.. Uhh, news post? :POctober is one of those month's that you're really into for the spooky themes and marathon through movies, or you don't get too deep into all that besides maybe Halloween night itself. I sorta fall between the two, but I don't quite get the same vibes as I used to many years ago with Halloween sadly. ^^" Sometimes Halloween night will surprise me with this odd comfy feeling, but anyway...
Discord changes! (Feedback/Suggestions)
I have some interesting news to share with everyone today! I've been considering this choice for a while off and on, but I wanted to make sure it didn't feel like a stab in the back to any supporters and give a heads up post about it with some time to prepare for it.Okay, so moving forward with the rest of development on MA. We're going to completely open up the discord server, allowing anyone for fans to join without paying the $1+ a...
Halloween Wallpaper voting poll! (Character)
(This first poll will be open to the public, while the following ones related to it will be supporter exclusive.)Before we begin! I'd like to make a mention that these fun wallpapers are mainly a bonus type of reward back to all of our awesome fans and supporters. While we have been enjoying these, we also want to make sure we don't dip too far into funding for bonuses like this vs new content. We're still working on the Summer wallpa...
Behind the scenes writing: Episode 5 (6/6)
(Warning! This post may contain major spoilers for the story! Read further at your own risk.)This is a behind the scenes look at the upcoming episode writing, which will cover what are called "events" during the episode. Episode 5 is looking to be around 35-40k word count, which is our biggest episode yet and added with the other content planned for v0.20 it'll be our biggest update yet in general.If you haven't seen the the previ...
September news post #3
Well this month flew by! ^^" The only good thing about that is a upcoming month of spooky themed movies and decoration ahead. :P I'd like to quickly say that once again, I'm very thankful for everyone being suuuper patient with this upcoming v0.20 release. I don't want it to seem like we're a broken record, since v0.19 took us forever to get out and many of you knew how that went. So let me say the good news right here in the ...
Upcoming diaper design changes!
This might come as a bit of a shock or surprise to many of you, but hopefully it won't be a bad thing. ^^"Similar to what we did about a month or so ago for some previews for Nova & Miki having some adjustments made to their already existing diaper designs. Which were very minor adjustments to their design or print layout.More recently we've been seeing previews of supporting characters like Garnet and Evelyn, who have diaper designs ...
diapers vs pull-ups (continued poll, round 3!)
[Vote on all options that apply to you.]If you missed the first two polls, you can check them out below.https://www.patreon.com/posts/diapers-vs-pull-55749636https://www.patreon.com/posts/diapers-vs-pull-55988670Brief summary for those joining us late. We're discussing and voting on possibly adding pull-up diapers into MA. We're trying to find a solution for how to add them that fits within the context of MA's story/world setting and ...
