IT IS FINALLY LIVE: a huge revamp to the demo!
What's new? Well... a lot.
- A ton of the prologue has been rewritten in places that weren't fully satisfying, including many new choices to make.
- A ton of new scenes in the prologue.
- Revamped GUI - the only thing that isn't updated yet is the main menu screen because the art is not finished. This update will come very soon!
- New art & new CGs!
- New voice acting! A few things to note on this: an audio engineer (Tristan Stone) is now working on Heart Fragment to level out all of the voice acting and enhance the quality so that it doesn't get drowned out by music. These updates still need to be made for most of the main cast, and the updated voice acting for Shannon will not be included until the next version with the new main menu, due to Samantha Chan working full time in the medical field at the moment.
- An intro into the social media feature, which will be expanded further in the full game.
- A few updated sprites have been included in the new version of the demo. The updated sprites will continue to be added as they are finished (Shannon, Kay, Natalia, Lana, and Inigo are being worked on right now).
- A few new songs on the soundtrack.
So, hooray for progress!
As for an update on what's going on with development right now, I have plenty of updates there as well!
- All of the main CGs for Kay's route are finished now!
- Act One of Kay's route is fully written and polished and Act Two is coming along very well.
- An option to switch between sprite styles is functional now for the sprites that are completed.
- Lavendel's sprite styles (to be seen in the next demo update!) are now animated with blinks and lip flaps.
- More to come soon! Thanks for keeping up to date on Heart Fragment!
If you are able to, please consider helping us out by buying us a Ko-fi over here. I'm struggling a bit with keeping up on the finances involved with developing a game. While the Kickstarter was fully funded, I did not fully account for the impact the exchange rate from CAD to USD would have on things.
Have a nice day everyone!
- Casper Swann
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