hi. it's been a while since I've done a bigger update but as I get on crunch time again I kind of just wanted to post what's up because it's a really interesting process, I know I've been like EEK but this is ACTUALLY what the like. steps and components are.

right now:

as of this . like today and the past little bit, I know it sounds silly but I've been working on one of the two planned DLCs for this game, (the last dance) because I know EXACTLY what I'm doing with that one and as much as I can do the better right now. I'm really hoping to drop this like riiight after the main game so if I have it complete I can just drop it december 26th (5 yrs into the pit anniversary hi), I just would like to have it in my back pocket and I'm gonna work really hard this weekend because I already have a lot of progress :)

in general, I kind of wanted to go over why this is taking so long and having the steps layed out, maybe for myself too to organize my thoughts.

gen:

to make this work, I kind of go through a complicated series of making all these people sprites one at a time and then editing their faces and poses as one does a visual novel, but because my main characters especially have SO many different outfits for the real detail I wanted to put in this.. that takes time 💀 but I'm working on it, the only two protagonists we ever follow have all of their outfits (william and oswald) each done or in my head so I'm not thinking much. Like seriously william has 2 to 4 outfits per chapter of the main game 😨 that's a lot of sprites.

with backgrounds it just sucks to make myself do it but I have:

all of the 1985 pizzeria drawn and colored :)

all of the 1987 pizzeria drawn and colored

all of the afton house rooms and outside drawn and colored

all the line art for jeff's pizza in the DLC, not colored yet

half of oswald's house drawn and colored

what I need to do:

fredbear's (not too many rooms so just like 4?? and outside)

fazbear's fright (THIS IS THE DAUNTING ONE.)

library (just one room or so)

the town in general which isnt too many different slides

police station

the ffps pizzeria I need to design? im basing it off of tprr in roblox 😭

and some spoilery stuff but not too bad c:

cutscenes

NOW.. this is where the process is. I try to draw when I can and if I sit down I try to draw FULL scenes at a time but this is what I'm struggling because theres a LOT of cutscenes? theres times it's the normal visual novel sprites on screen but I really wanted this to be cutscenes cutscenes cutscenes to not miss out on the actual action of the story, i always find myself playing games and being like "man i wish they showed that in art..." so.. 😳 I'm a little nervous, this is my third time redrawing the springlock failure towards the end of the base game but I have a much better idea of how I want to pseudo animate it and I know some coding to help out that will be super dope ☺ drawing a several hour game is kind of literally crazy but I've found a better way to not hurt my back laying down and working with my laptop, I wasn't getting too far before because I'd always be in pain.

music:

I'm still having a friend help me out with some tracks as well as reworking a few myself but we're mostly doing great having like 90 percent of the music done, I'm doing a lot more actual song covers of 80s hits I'm fond of instead of just fnaf songs like my original vision, I really like the mix of both

coding

I've honestly got it DOWN like way more than I ever did and im really enjoying how ren'py is set up

GUI

I'm working on this for the base game and the 2 DLCs which are their own game packages for different menu screens and all, but it's looking really good and the vibe I really wanted to go for with weird flash game

another thing I'm working on soon probably all at once is chapter cards for transitions, I want to make a super cool piece for every time the next chapter begins, kind of like the start level of pizza tower is my inspiration here, I always had this in my vision since this was an RPG game way back when and still think it fits in nicely

also important that it's giving me a small extra workload but I am adding dialogue choices, probably not full branching routes unless it's a simple one choice that changes things but I learned the code and I think this will be super duper cool, I'm SO excited for you all to see the last dance DLC especially, the story of that one is a very strong conclusion to this saga I cant wait to share and being about my FAVORITE part of the entire fnaf universe it's very . very. special to me. staring at you with my huge wet eyes.

I really hope posting something big like this motivates me some more, I've been working on this game for almost 2 years now and might as well be less stingy and have something to show for it 🤭 but I'm ON it.. save me undertale deltarune soundtrack that's been my work playlist on loop

ask me anything honestly when people have been like WOAH THIS IS DOPE it makes me like actually really happy and sit on my bed twirling my hair 😭