I'm not saying that in the midst of writing down all the idea vomit I had yesterday for the non-existent Steampunk project of the future that I ended up spending some time working on a sprite for said non-existent project because he's the only main character that I know for sure will be in that game yet does not have a character design.
But I did, in fact, do that. A lot of the characters...
2020-11-01 01:12:49 +0000 UTC View PostHey Guys! Sorry I missed the devlog yesterday. My only excuse is that I did the monthly Kickstarter one on Friday so I had somehow convinced myself I'd already updated here! LoL.
But it was a lieeee. I did not update here.
So here is this weeks devlog.
Summary:
Hey everyone! Popping in to write up this week's devlog and update you on the goings on for Gilded Shadows!
Summary:
The Ramble:
So mostly...
2020-10-24 00:54:59 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys! Here is this week's devlog. Back into the writing vortex! LoL. But there were a few other things that happened so...yeah!
Let us begin. OwO
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The Ramble: 2020-10-17 01:14:53 +0000 UTC View Post
For our Red and Black tea tiers, I wanted to show off the intro CGs we made for Yuu and Quill.
All the characters now have at least one CG though Lance's CG doesn't appear in the game yet!
The intro CGs are kind of boring and I know players don't prefer CGs that are close ups like this. However, I liked doing them - and I'm not counting them against the amount of CGs per route...
2020-10-10 06:35:54 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone! Here we are with this week's update. It's later in the day than I wanted to do it but I've been busy on game stuffs all morning!
So let us begin. OWO
Summary:
Hey guys! Welcome to this weeks devlog! We are jumping straight in this week. (Also, how is it October?????)
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The Ramble:
It's another one of those weeks where it feels like I have a lot less to say than usual because I really just spen...
2020-10-03 03:52:24 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys! Sorry for the delay this week. As has happened before, I got into a bit of a loop of "I'll do it when I finish this thing." and it was kind of never ending.
So I ended up putting it off until today while working on other dev stuff! But here we are. And we are jumping into the update this week.
Summary:
Sorry everyone - reposting this because I forgot to set the poll up properly and give it an end date and prevent multiple votes. And patreon refused to let me edit it.
SO. Yes. Caleb won the wallpaper poll so this is now to vote on the tone for the wallpaper. If you have a specific idea, you can post that below. If enough ideas are posted, we can vote on those, too.
Otherwise, I wil...
2020-09-19 05:37:43 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys! Sorry for posting the devlog a little late. To be honest, I haven't been feeling great the past couple of days. ;A;
That, and I wanted to wait until the character wallpaper poll was complete as well! Caleb managed to pull ahead at the very end and won. So next I'll do a poll regarding the wallpaper content!
But for now, on to this week's update!
S...
2020-09-19 05:28:11 +0000 UTC View PostSo GS won out over our other projects. And it is time to vote on characters!
While we have a lot of possible characters in Gilded Shadows, I'm going to stick with the love interests in the poll. However, you can choose 'other' and post who you'd like to see a wallpaper of. If a posted character wins out over the poll characters, we'll go with them of course.
That is all!
2020-09-12 02:07:11 +0000 UTC View Post Hey guys - here's this week's devlog!
Summary:
The Ramble:
Okay so now for this week's ramble!
This week I mostl...
2020-09-11 03:49:21 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys! I am starting up a round of polling to narrow down who will be the focus of the exclusive character wallpaper we are doing for our latest Patreon goal!
Since we kind of have a lot of characters to work from we're just going to narrow it down bit by bit. At this point, *any* character is fair game. So if you have someone specific in mind, just, in each poll, vote according to wha...
2020-09-04 04:32:34 +0000 UTC View PostHallo! Here is this week's devlog!
Summary:
The Ramble:
After last week where it felt like everything under the sun was worked on and happening, this week feels way more low-key. LoL
It was another writing focus...
2020-09-04 04:29:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello guys!
Sorry for the late update this week. I honestly just...forgot. OxO LoL
It was one of those "doesn't-feel-like-Friday" days so it didn't occur to me that I needed to update until late afternoon when I was in the middle of something. So I decided to wait until I was finished with that before I started working on it.
So anyway, let's jump in!
Hallo everyone!
Time for this weeks update! I was going to try to get it up a little earlier but had to pause several times due to interruptions.
I feel like this was a productive week in terms of breadth of stuff accomplished. So here we go!
Summary:
Hey guys!
Time for this week's devlog. On a Friday morning, no less!
WONDER OF WONDERS.
Anyway, let us jump in!
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The Ramble: 2020-08-14 02:22:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys!
Time for this week's devlog.
It's a little late again - I've been really absorbed in wrapping up Caleb's route. And, well, I'll get into that below! But here we are!
Summary:
Hey guys! I am just sending out the next flower-themed wallpaper. This one is of Lance and his flower, asphodel.
Asphodel is a flower that is sometimes associated with death, and in mythology there was a field of it in the under world.
It's a pretty flower but I basically n...
2020-08-04 09:58:33 +0000 UTC View PostWhew! Finally! The sneak peeks are ready!
I ended up doing this release through Google Drive because in some ways it's a little easier for me to manage this way vs through itch.io. Itch.io has its uses but for a sneak peek style situation like this one, I think G-drive is a little more appropriate.
Some notes:
-These are alpha versions. They are missing assets and have some pl...
2020-08-03 06:31:07 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone!
As a lot of you know, we are planning to release the rest of the common route and the first chapter of Caissa's route (in alpha-form which means some assets, like music, sprites, etc will be missing) to you all!
Since I already have a couple of Ari's initial chapters coded, I decided to release those to you guys as well.
There will be placeholder backgrounds in A...
2020-08-03 02:35:00 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys!
Time for this week's devlog. Sorry it is coming late in the day - during the morning I was dealing with a minor family issue. Then had to do school with my kiddo later on…
So I'm just now getting around to posting this.
Anyway, let's jump into this week's update!
Summary:
Hey guys!
Time for this week's devlog. Sorry it is coming late in the day - during the morning I was dealing with a minor family issue. Then had to do school with my kiddo later on…
So I'm just now getting around to posting this.
Anyway, let's jump into this week's update!
Summary:
Hey guys!
So this was a tough week. If you've been following the blog, you know why. If not, essentially Caleb's existence as a love interest was kind of put on the balancing scales as the complaints about him finally made me start questioning whether I should cut him from the roster.
I made an offhand remark about it in response to one ask and it kind of snowball...
2020-07-17 02:09:35 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone!
This post is to talk about the goal we had set for $375 in patreon pledges per month. Which we actually reached some time ago.
For some reason I thought the goal was at $450. But that goal is.....different.
Yeah. @_@
LoL
Okay.
So the goal reward was that I would immediately release an update to the demo exclusively to patrons, which i...
2020-07-13 01:29:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys - here is the full Caissa + Magnolia image for anyone who wants it! I will be trying to get one done for each of the love interests as a patreon reward for the two higher tiers.
Hope you guys enjoy it.
(I know this is not a unique idea since I've seen character like this using flowers, plants, birds, and other things over and over again. But I thought it would b...
2020-07-12 03:13:35 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys!
Sorry for the delayed devlog this week! As some of you know, I had a medical exam situation on Friday that literally took the entire day. It was a two hour drive (in one direction) to the main clinic so there was a lot of driving, plus exams.
(No one is sick - these are just routine exams related to visa stuff for us living abroad).
Anyway, yesterday was ...
2020-07-12 03:09:45 +0000 UTC View Post
We just wanted to show some additional BGs that we've gotten (and some sketches) that are a little more spoilery than the ones we put in our update.
I believe we've shown the one below but it goes with the one above so...now you can see both!
Additionally, these two sketches of a pla...
2020-07-04 09:19:28 +0000 UTC View PostHi Everyone! Sorry for the late devlog this week. Yesterday was a bit crazy and I basically forgot until it was very late.
Then I stayed up until 4:30 AM doing art.
So today I've essentially been a zombie. (To everyone reading this and thinking "We told you so!" ….I bite you). >=D
Writing:
So for Caleb's route I both made and lost progress. I did ha...
2020-07-04 09:14:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi Everyone!
Esh here. Brace yourselves for a text wall ramble of doom! 8D
Writing:
Okay - let's start with the simple things.
1. I've been working on Jack's route and have my rough draft of chapter one complete! This chapter is so different from the other first chapters I've written so far. In the Endgame routes, Morgan spends the first cou...
2020-06-26 02:15:26 +0000 UTC View Post
