Hi everyone!

I did a whole bunch of writing this month! Saint Ceri’s script now stands at 67k words!

Not all of the words are fully unique; the many variants in the final route choice scene have some repetition between them (mostly things like the breakup variations in each possible route/rivalry), but a lot of it is still different and new! I finished the route choice scene and wrote most of the first day of the festival.

I’ve done just a little bit of art (cleaning up a previous CG, and finishing a CG for the festival ceremony scene).

I also made a super short THJ side story this month! Some of you have already played Hero’s Last Words. It was really fun to make, and I’m happy to see it brought new players to THJ!

HLW’s eye blink animation was surprisingly easy to implement (once I figured out how the hell to make it work), so I’m considering adding blinking animations to Saint Ceri too… I'll think on it a little longer (and probably finish writing the pre-ending content before I try to tackle animation; it's almost done but I'm bad at getting back into the writing groove if I take a break from it). If I end up doing it I'll post an updated demo when it's done; it won't have new content, just the blink animation! It wouldn't be much but I feel like a simple blink makes characters feel so alive, and I'm always in awe of VNs with simple animations.

Next month I'll keep writing; I'm hoping to finish the pre-ending script soon (though it might grow to be longer than expected, knowing how bad I am at estimating wordcounts), and after that I'll move on to cleaning up some art, configuring new assets and scripting all the new writing and art... The latter will definitely take a while!

That's it for this devlog! Thanks as always for reading and for your continued support <3