CENTER OF MY UNDERWORLD - WEEKLY UPDATE #27 - A HAPPY BELATED HEART DAY KIND OF UPDATE

 Hey everyone, James here.

Back again with another update for Center of My Underworld.

I have some very good news. Since my last update in January I've been extremely hard at work on this VN.

TONS of writing for it has been done. So much so, that even I'm surprised with just how much I've written.

I'm talking lots of writing for every route. Mindy's, Mandy's, and Ms. Butterbean's.

I usually don't like to pat myself on the back, but I'm very proud of how it all came out.

Only things left to do is to break it down, and the then send it to Kata so she can look it over.

Shout out to lminknlot for holding it down these last two months.

She's been hard at work on cleaning up a lot of the games art, and I can't thank her enough for all her efforts. 

Thank you so much lmink, you kick butt.

Programming is going at it's usual pace. Nothing to write home about, but work IS being done in that department, so I thought I'd at least bring it up.

I've been adding sound effects to a lot of the games scenes. Nothing amazing, just place holder stuff.

Most of the sound and music will be handled once big chunks of the game start syncing up together.

At the start of this project I made a big deal about sound and music. 

The more I program and put the everything together, the more I realize that (Music/sounds) can be handled at a later date.

As I said, I'm constantly doing rewrites and touch-ups for the games story. 

Story needs to come first.

Story MUST come first.

If the story isn't any good to read, then all the fancy stuff I want to put in this game will be for not. 

Center of My Underworld 2021 - Mindy (Thanks for the amazing photo lmink! :)  )

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Anyway, in other news I've been on the hunt for a CG artist. 

I've narrowed down some possible candidates. Nothing is concrete yet though. 

I still need some time to think on it. 

Personally, if you ask me, CG while being super important to this project, kind of fall into the music department for me right now. It's something that can literally be done near the end of this project. All I'd have to do is import the files into the games engine and POOF! All done.

I may be over simplifying this a bit, but I think you know what I'm getting at here. 

The last news I wanted to get to is this. 

I recently just sent the details to the games sprite artist for a new character model/sprite. It should be done/finished in the next 1-2 weeks. 

I'm very excited for it's creation. The character being worked on is one of my all time favorites. I'm sure you guys/gals will fall in love with her character as soon as you see in her in the game. 

I'm trying to limit the amount of characters I show off on this blog for the VN, but maybe I'll cave this one time and post a preview picture of her once she's completed and in the game. 

Anyway, that's really it as fart as news goes for this project of mine.

I'll probably have a little more free time to kick around with next month, so expect at least two updates. I'm not making any promises though.

I hope you all are keeping safe, and are all having a good year so far. 

I'll catch you guys soon. Take care guys/gals. 

P.S. 

I have no idea why, but for some reason whenever I write a scene for Mindy, this song will sometimes get stuck in my head. It's silly, but it always puts a dumb smile on my face. :)