Oh hey, look, another monthly update. Technically, it hasn’t been exactly a month since the last monthly update, so it isn’t a true monthly update, but I’m only a couple of days off, so it counts. Progress has slowly been becoming more steady now that I can finally start on a demo for the game, and I’ll get to that in a little bit. Now then, on to the progress report!

Progress on sprites:
Yeah, literally no progress has been made on that front. Finding spriters to assist with the AU is a bit harder than I would have liked it to be, so there’s still been no progress on any form of spritework, which is going to really hold back a demo if I can’t get any spriters because I’d have to keep relying on placeholders, and who wants to play an entire demo full of placeholder sprites? I sure know I wouldn’t. So, if you’re a spriter who’s good at either overworld sprites, or tilesets and you want to help out with the AU, send me a DM on discord at SuperSilvulus (Silvulus Studios)#3808 and show me some examples of your work. Alternatively, you could also join the discord by clicking here and applying in the #team-applications channel.

Progress on the story:
Yeah, admittedly, I’ve been slacking off in this region. I’m not really much of a writer, I’m more of a composer, so I haven’t really been touching up on the story. I should really get on that, but it’s not like I don’t have anything to show off. So, to make up for the lack of story progress, have a prologue I wrote up. I’m not really the best at writing, so if you guys have any feedback on how I could improve the prologue, I would appreciate it.

Progress on the OST:
Honestly, progress on the AU’s OST has kind of been slowing down recently. I haven’t really been focusing on tracks, since I basically have all the ones I need for the demo, aside from two which I should get on soon. I’ve really more been scrambling to get some spriters for the demo, since they’re more important right now. Details on how to help with that if you’re interested is above.

Progress on the demo itself:
This one wasn’t in the last monthly update, now was it? My birthday recently happened, and with that, came GameMaker Studio 2. So, now I can finally start working on the stuff needed to start working on the demo. I’ll mostly be playing around with a battle system, so I can get a decent recreation of the Touhou shooting system, and spellcard system going, until I have the sprites I need to start working on an overworld system.

That’s pretty much it for now, hopefully, I’ll have a bit more to show off in the next monthly update, but until then, you guys will just have to wait. In the meantime, you could always join the A Tale of Danmaku discord. You won’t get many more updates than you would on the gamejolt, but you can chat with me, and you’ll always get notified when a new track comes out, so there’s that. What’re you waiting for? Join now.

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