Hi everyone!

My goodness, it's been 51 days?? I'm so sorry for the late update!

Insert my standard 'life-has-been-hectic' note here (though it really has been), and now I'll get into the progress I've achieved in the last month and a bit.

I crunched out the final required BGs for Love Hues, including Toby's place of employment, the Tealmoon Café (which I've been putting off for actual, literal years), wrote up QA contracts and began the preliminary steps on recruiting a QA team. I anticipate I'll hopefully be starting QA next weekend at the earliest and the week after that at the latest. :) I just need to figure out how I'll pay my team properly. Other than creating final BGs, I also tied the rest of the story together as well as I could and the game is now functionally complete. 

Prior to commencing QA, here are some things that still have to be done:

• Finalize QA team and get contracts signed
• Figure out how to pay staff
• Implement music properly across the game + make it loop
• Review the script one last time

After setting up and beginning QA, the only things that still need to be done are the following:

• (Re)drawing any outstanding CGs. This is about 4-5 CGs per route so I have 20 illustrations to create; I'll be doing a good chunk of this during QA. I find I can complete ~3/4s of a CG to 1 CG a day depending on how well it goes.
• Implementing QA feedback.
• Picking a release date :-)
• Marketing and figuring out publishing/final game cost!
• Attending an upcoming local exhibition

At this point, I think it's finally fair to say that the end of the game's development cycle is reasonably in sight now. As always, thank you for being patient, and please remember to keep recommending the game to your friends and peers (especially when we're closer to launch!). As a one-human-bean, game dev team, I truly need all the support I can get. 

Thank you again for all the downloads and kindness you've shown me so far; I'll try to post my next devlog on time! Signing off with the draft of + a snippet of the newest CG I just recreated for Toby.

Cheers,

Oneirocritica Games