Sex sells, right? Apologies for hogging that little corner of space on the front page! I offer abs as a consolation.

On the technical side of things, I've been testing out various aspects of the battle system and stumbling onto nests of bugs. The inconsistent kind, too, which is even worse! Much harder to pinpoint their cause, but I have confidence in crushing them.

So far... (Documentation for myself here!)


I've been working out more nitty gritty details with skills, as well as cutting quite a few! Since there are really only 8-9 battles in the entire game, the baseline for "should this skill exist?" is "Is it useful in at least 4 battles?" One thing to note about the slowness... One can technically fuse almost every skill in the game right from the first level! This means I have to make sure every skill works/has the associated graphics right from the first level. This crosses over into blathering about graphical shenanigans!

...Which I really don't have a pattern for. I've been coloring portraits for future characters, but have been showing them off at a fairly slow rate. Will probably end up dumping them all into one image file sometime. Same with sprites, although I'm getting into battle animations more, so I really need to post up base sprites somewhere and get critique on them! Once I start animating, there is NO GOING BACK.

I know I mentioned VS CARDS~ the last time I sat down to blog; I have since followed up on the "maybe I'll redraw these" and am glad I did.

Still only done the lines, and I haven't put much thought into a background, but it's already x10 better than what I was previously doing.

I may or may not fall silent as November dawns upon the world. Not because of NaNo or any associated development months, but simply because I've sworn to that fall demo and by golly, I will have a fall demo. LESS BLABBING MORE WORKING.