It has been a quiet month – Patreon post-wise, but not creative-wise!! 🌸🦄🎀🦄🌸 Although posts here have not been plentiful (mainly because I don’t really have a comfortable computer set-up in the new house, due to lacking a desk… or a couch… or any other furniture on which to sit comfortably for computer work;;;;;;), I have still been creating many things!!

Also enjoy the summary of art I’ve done this year as the featured image up above! 🌟👆🌟

Anyway, posts from this month include:

• Sketching New Character Proportions – Ah, that’s right!  The appearance of the characters will be slightly different in the new game than they appeared in the Welcome Video.  There should be more variations of body type and expressive poses, too. 💃
• Harvest Moon Tribute Art~ – Some sketchbook art from my very first night in the new house! 🏡
• Harvest Moon Popuri Tribute WIP Video + Art Doll + 2018 Ideas :3 – This post is full to bursting!!  Not only is there a WIP video of that Harvest Moon piece being worked on, but you can also see a rough sketchbook drawing of an art doll I’d like to create.  AND! There is information about how, in 2018, I’d like for my Patreon to have content for my general (non gamedev-related) art and sewing creations. 😽
• Popuri WIP Progress + Happy Holidays!! – Another quick WIP before the finishing touches on this piece were done, and warm holiday wishes~ ☕

January shall pick up again, because I will have real furniture by then! 😄 Have a safe, comfortable, and joyful new year, my dears!! 🎀 Let’s keep on creating new and wonderful things in the new year and beyond!! 🌟☀️🌟

🦄 WHAT A FANTASTIC MONTH!! 🦄

Creating all of that art for the interior of a cozy little house was so much fun, and produced such a lovely result!

And then, there was the actual creation of the Welcome Video, which was finished and made available for download and everything!! 🎀💝🎀

And THEN, work was begun on the NEXT GAME!!  Fans of cozy, homey simulation games should love Cute Town Sim~ 🏘️

Here’s what was accomplished this month:

• New Moods & Attitudes: This post is the first one to show off the different animations and expressions that the heroine shows in the video~
• Super Rough Sketchbook Pic;;;: Here, you can see the early sketchbook version of the illustrated art work that’s also shown at the top of this post!
• New Art Underway~: The next stage of the WIP for that art again~ 🎨
• Last Little Flavorful Touches for the Interior Map~: Cool little dust particles and flavor text for lots of examinable items were implemented in this post!
• Neato Screen Wipe Transition: It is seriously pretty neato.
• SECRET ART: The Welcome Video has several little screenshot mockup art works, and this post is the first one to show off a couple of them. 🖼️ There is also a nice list of other achievements I also worked on around the same time.
• !DOWNLOAD! Welcome Video (yes, it’s playable!): THE DOWNLOAD FOR THE GAME THE WELCOME VIDEO WAS CREATED WITH!!  Check it out!! 💫💞💫
• Next Project Under Way! Cute Town Sim!!: This is the introductory post for the next game (which is free and publicly-viewable), listing all of its anticipated features~ 🎵 What do you think of it? 🤗
• Super Preliminary Map Drawing: The beginnings of what the explorable maps will look like are shown in this post, with lots of little details for what you might find in each! 🏞️
• A New Heroine: The first new character for the new game is shown here, and it is the one that you play as! 💜 Do you like her lavender hair?

In December, I will keep showing new things for Cute Town Sim, such as new characters! 🙋 Getting introduced to your new neighbors is a good way to learn your way around a new town~ 🏘️

…Which is actually relevant to me, because I am in the process of moving to a lovely new living space, too! 💖 I will do my absolute best to keep up the pace of creating art work.  I’m not terribly worried about losing much time, since I thought that I wasn’t doing well at the beginning of November, and yet it turned out SO productive!! ✨💖✨

This month has brought about MUCHO COMPLETELY NEW ART 🎨 as well as ✨ SHINY, SPARKLING POLISH. ✨

• Numerous Small Things @_@ – This post details a lot of backend work that was tidied up to make the game run more efficiently and correctly~
• New font, super slick hover text, and other cool things – The contents of this post are pretty much summarized in the title.. 😁 The hover text is something I’m really proud of, especially its nice drop shadow!
• 🎀 !DOWNLOAD! The Welcome Video Early Demo 🎀- YES!!!  The first download for something actually playable was made available early in this month!! 🌟 All of the functions I’ve been pouring into this tiny, welcoming world were specifically so this could be made available~  Check it out if you have a minute!
• Yes/No Prompts, Cute Font Details, and More! – Cute little icons were added to the text in this update, such as little hearts, stars, or music notes at the end of dialog. 🎵 But more functionally, a pop-up box where the player can select “yes” or “no” (or “save” and “load,” etc.) is now operable~
• Hey Guys Check Out My Old, Embarrassing Games – This post, which is freely available for everyone to read (even non-Patrons), lists a handful of the previous game projects I have made and worked on!  Wanna see some extremely low-resolution art of mine from 10 years ago?  This is where you can check it out. 😳
• smol and ANGER – This post is the source of the preview image at the top of this summary page. 😆 Some of these characters need multiple expressions to show, and that what was worked on in this update.
• Super Hardcore Art Mode ENGAGED – Some serious painting progress was made in this post~ 🖌️ Finally, those objects that were just sitting on the map, uncolored, are all prettily painted, and with new examinable text over them!
• Map Painting Finished + Glowies! – A wrap-up post for those art elements from the previous post, plus an important, ambient piece of polish – MAGICAL GLOWIES.  The animated gif that shows them off in this post is mesmerizing. ☄️🌌☄️
• Painting a HOUSE!! – There is, in fact, a SECOND MAP to explore in this Welcome demo, and the art for its interior is first shown off here~
• House Interior P Much Finished – A follow-up related to the previous post, this one shows the new, finished map implemented in-game, with the player walking around and exploring the new space~ 🏡 Won’t you stop by and stay for tea in this sweet little house?

👍 Lots of REALLY GOOD STUFF was accomplished this month!!  I am feeling really happy and confident about how my sweet little project is growing. 🤗 Thanks so much for reading and following along with my experience, and if you’d like to help in any form, consider the links below to either become a patron or just to donate once through Paypal any small amount~ 💝

A huuuuuuge quantity of technical updates and backend polishing went on this month!! 🌟 And some great art progress as well!! 🎨 The environment is pretty much completely painted, with only a few uncolored details around the map~

Here’s a summary of each update post!:

• In Background Art Lookin’ Good!, the first pieces of foliage were painted into the world~ 🌳 For the first time, the colorful fantasy environment was really made apparent; bushes and trees in a rainbow of colors populate this world! 🌈
• The next update, Background Painting Coming Together – Cute Little House, the details of the map began to blossom up.  There is a cozy little house tucked in there – who could live there? 🏡  I also learned a fair bit about Game Maker’s texture pages!
• A Flowery New Friend!! 🌸 This introduced a new inhabitant of the colorful world, with some fairly early art… she gets updated in another post or two!
• In Serious Map-Building, the artsy aspects of the environment are set aside in order to get them all functioning as a map that the player can walk around in and interact with. 🏞️ There were a lot of lessons learned in this process!! 💪 And they all lead toward more efficient work in the future! 💪💪
• A huuuuuge update summary post titled Dialog is getting really polished!! lists a great quantity of important fixes and additions!  Most importantly among them being DIALOG FOR THE NPC’S!! 🗣️💬
• A SECOND huge update list is detailed in  The To-Do List is Getting Smaller~!! 📝  While most of the previous post covered things related to the NPC’s, this one is widely varied, with polishes for movement, placement of UI elements on the screen, and MUSIC!! 🎶
• And, finally, just yesterday brought us Pauses in Dialog OMG!!!!!!    😱 Yes, I really am that excited about it, lol.  Making your reading dynamic is one of THE most important aspects of games with dialog, and I even share my code for finally figuring out how to implement this dynamic in this post. 👾
• Also in the above post is a cute animated gif of the cute, tiny dust puffs I implemented as the characters walk around LOL. 🐾

Whew!  I’m really, REALLY happy about the amount of progress this month!! 🤗  Like I’ve said in these updates, there truly isn’t much technical stuff left, and it’s just up to me to paint the remaining details! 🎨🖌️

I’ll have something fun for everyone to download VERY soon! 🐇

✨ Thank you so much for taking the time to read my summary of what I’ve been up to over this month, and if you’d like to help in any form, consider the links below to either become a patron or just to donate once through Paypal any small amount~

A fair amount was accomplished this month, amazingly even with the fact that I was away from home for a week and enjoying the BEEAAACH!! ☀️🏖️🕶️

It was a really, really good month for art!!

• The movement functions for the player were polished up a bit with a glowy animated “walk target” that appears where the player clicks.  Once the heroine character steps on it, it disappears in a poof of light particles! ✨
• Some very rough sketches were laid down for the actual, playable map.  View the whole thing + some insights into how collisions are placed on a hand-drawn map in the Map Re-Drawing Begun post!
• I made some new brushes by hand in order to make drawing grass and flowers much easier!!  See them, in addition to some greenery being placed on the background, in Painting Some Sick Grass.  Bonus footage of cute poofy clouds from a chimney!
• New Art for the Player Character was done!!  We have a heroine, folks!!
• And finally, :O! A Friend!, shows an NPC character who will be present in the playable build.  We are reaching ever closer to its availability!

🌼 Onward into September!! 🌼

🐇 Thank you so much for taking the time to read my summary of what I’ve been up to over this month, and if you’d like to help in any form, consider the links below to either become a patron or just to donate once through Paypal any small amount~