Soundless AAA: My Arm Hurts + Patreon Stuff
Carpal tunnel get back!
So! Funny thing about today. I was supposed to finish up the last two CGs in the morning after eons of dealing with freelancing and other adult responsibility nonsense so I could plug them into the opening and render the new opening once and for all. As it turns out, though:
My frazzled stressed body decides whenever it wants to oversleep at random, even when I got enough sleep the night prior.
It turns out you cannot quickly draw CGs with a dozen people in them, even if the vast majority of the people are a faceless mob.
I don’t like having to tell you all that things I said would be out by a certain point did not actually come out. It’s not pleasant. It’s an unfortunate consequence of being a solo developer. I always appreciate any and all patience with the process, because when your work is also drawing and using a mouse and typing you tend to get repeitive strain injuries, which is something I’m desperately trying to mitigate so that I don’t discover one day I can’t use my hand to draw at all because it’s been damaged beyond salvation. (This happens a lot when peoples’ work is art—some become so desperate they learn how to use their non-dominant hand to draw.)
Sadly, no image this time because the CG that did end up getting completed today is a spoilery one. A few variations of the final are available in the supporter-only developer channel, so if you’d like to see that now while still waiting on the Patreon to launch, feel free to make a Ko-Fi account, chuck a few dollars my way, and then connect your Discord account to the Ko-Fi account to get the reward. Your money helps me do things like take care of cats and bills and taxes. Yay.
Speaking of the Patreon
We’re looking at an early July launch still! We won’t be launching it right when the month starts for a variety of reasons that include “most people pay rent on the first and wouldn’t be able to pledge anyways” and “we’d like to take our time ensuring the first month of content is nice and cool”. We will be sending out an e-mail for both when we have a solid launch date and when it does actually launch, so keep your eyes peeled.
Stream Soon?
Yes, stream soon! After the final CG is completed we will be scheduling a “CG marathon” stream where instead of the usual 2 hours you get to see me nonstop* draw some of the “simpler” CGs (that are not spoilery) until I’m done. This marathon will still come with 5-minute breaks, though, for both you and me. Probably will include 10 minute intermissions too if it goes on long enough.
*In the event this takes so long that it’s time to eat dinner, the stream will end at that time regardless of whether or not all the CGs are finished.
Art Patch Progress Summary
Sprites
Finished
CGs
4/31 completed (1 in progress)
4/5 opening CGs completed (1 in progress)
Implementation
All main sprites implemented
Toggle option implemented
Initial selection screen roughly implemented
Other
Updated art version of opening sequence nearly complete
You can download Soundless for free right now with its original artwork on Itch.io!
