Wanted to post a quick progress report from last week:
Done!
- Finished another quick round of edits. In total, I’ve cut/consolidated about 1200 lines from the last demo.
- Extended the last demo scenes for Rea/Hannah/Grace to continue the story. Alex no longer stands in the cold wondering what to do next! From here, it’s all new content.
- FoxFire finished Alex’s first new character portrait:
Expect other characters to follow this style, as well as the UI once it’s redone. Due to time constraints, we’ve also reduced Alex’s progression from 11 to 7 steps. Portraits will still be displayed waist-up, but the whole body will be drawn to make some nice unlockables 
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4. Ars has made progress on Grace’s theme, which never made an appearance in the previous demo.
5. Rejiggered intro scene to work in the new Alex.
Doing:
- Alex’s first stage outfits, as well as her entire progression.
- First batch of post-demo route scenes. New demo will probably include up until the next major shared plot point.
- Redoing background art to incorporate Ren’Py’s native support for blurred images.
That does it for this week. Probably won’t do these too often until we’re rolling smoothly, but the new portrait style was big news!