Echoes of the Village [Pub V.2]

5 days ago by MalaKuma

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Hello!

Studio Malakuma - Mark here for a monthly update of Echoes of the Village.

This month sure has really gone by in a flash! I've made some pretty nice progress on EotV, but I wish I could have had done a bit more writing. I've pushed quite a bit more on art-related updates and changes to the VN. The bigger beats of the 2nd arc stories are in, but I feel like they would be better with character building if I added a tad bit more fluff since they are rather short to the standards I would like, but that's okay! I'll add more to it as I start work this month on the story 3s.

As for the art, I've worked a lot more on shading and highlights to the characters as well as transferred them all from still sprites to blinking characters to add more life to them.

Below I'll list the changes I've made to the game and following I'll list the projected plans for the month of June:
Thank you! for reading!

Changes and Updates:

- Added more to the design on every character. Each character stands further from the "camera" and have added more shading and highlights to their designs. Every character changed from a png image to a gif image so they blink while on screen (who knows what they do off screen).

- Added more text to portray the emotions Kodama felt during the Flame Grace Festival of Chapter 1.

- Added a "special event" that can randomly occur during the randomized night events in Chapter 2.

- Added each characters' Arc 2 stories (will add more to it in the next update)

- Added more flavor to the stories of each character in their Arc 1s.

- Added a timer bar to some of the choices. The player may make the choice to wait and not respond to an event which leads to its own path.

- Added a button in the main menu to skip Chapter 1 for those who have already read chapter 1 and want to get straight into the gameplay loop and characters stories of Chapter 2. This button will only be available during the public versions and will not be available in the final version.

- Added a final screen for when you reach the end of the month. The endings (True and Bad) titles are there and will highlight any of the ending you have achieved (of course none of the endings are currently reachable). The ending currently only reads as "This is the end." and will put you back to the beginning of chapter 2.

-Changed the designs in the menus to make it more legible while saving/loading/viewing logs.

What's coming up in June:

- Working on adding more to the Arc 2 stories and then develop and push the Arc 3 stories.

- Re-doing the CG after the firework event and will be adding 2 more CGs for the character routes.

- Adding more BGs and will try to get an additional character pose for each character.

Thank you again for reading my post and I hope you enjoy EotV v2!

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