Hello! BloodMourn here, decided to gather up a bit of a... more proper devlog this time around, as I wanted to share some of this information before, around New Year or Christmas.
Part I - Progress.
as some of you, those who close to me, may be aware. For a real while for various reason I was switched the engine. Yeah, the old and long story short - switching to Godot for various reasons. Won't be going into details etc-etc.
The progress on GameMaker been stopped for a real while now, I haven't done anything proper there since... maybe last year? Maybe even more. It was becoming stale, and I was actually about to either cancel this, or put it on indefinite hiatus.
Yet for various reasons, as I switched to Godot and started learning it for other projects, I got slight re-ignition of passion for this project, so I decided to give it a last try on Godot this time around. Sadly this year been quite heavy on me, as well as it's a last year of college, so I can't put as much work into things, and Progress been... both good and slow at same time.
CODING - in process, slow, but paced, might get slower, but whenever I'm done with college, MIGHT resume faster... or freeze for a year... depends on how some of real life events go ":D
SPRITES - re-vamped the visuals for overworld, as they badly needed it. Also thanks to Dot_Com(justang) I've got new sprites of Chara and Temmie! So a big thank you and shoutout to them!
(Although, might bring some changes to said sprites, or er... make a new ones based on these? Idk yet)

And here's a small sneak-peak of updated visuals!~ Though keep in mind, this is only a test mock-up, so it's all subject to change, but I'm more happy with results of visuals both sprite wise, and thanks to Godot's easier effects + lights system etc.
WRITING - this department is somewhat stale currently... I'll get to that whenever I get to it I guess ┐(´ー`)┌
(gonna be honest currently I have more interest doing other side take stuff, might've switched to those instead.. but majority is quite bigger than this so... idk- if any of you instead would like to see something else of my stuff, could try and work with that instead, maybe would have more progress lol)
MUSIC - not much to say here either, just that, some of stuff been updated, some been cut. Not gonna go in details, just gonna mention that - main battle theme would be replaced. Might still be DISSENSION, just... not the one I used before.
PART II - Cut Content
so, as mentioned before. Obviously, I had at one hand plenty done, but at same time... not as much as I wish I would have over the time this been in development. But still, there are stuff to show.
SPRITES
there is plenty sprites that been updated, used somewhere else or... just cut. Example - Sans. I had an idea to add new soul type here, and I didn't want to just throw it in, so there was planned to be a 'tutorial' Sans fight. Might still do it, might not, but anyways, here some stuff for that. Didn't went too far though.
Dialogue Sprites

Nothing that fancy, but I guess still something :p
Overworld Sprites

Didn't do that much, but it was enough for time being + you might remember these, as I gave permission to use them in Big Fom's SWAPFELL Sans Fight. It also uses outdated version of my Chara overworld sprite (the V1 without backpack)
fun fact, at some point, I might've followed the trend and made Papyrus have a blocky head... (for normal Papyrus I kept it tho lol, but here I didn't really like it)

also don't remember if I've shown it or not, so uh... there's also been Frisk sprites! :D

Then, there's player's portrait... for the inventory. Not really scrapped, but I'm unsure about if I should keep the details of dust getting on us, as well as should I add visible manchette?
You can comment your thoughts about this if you want to I guess lol. Would be nice to get some feedback.

Scrapped/Unfinished Menu

Nothing much to say, just a mockup concept for the simple menu idea I had, but never got to fully implement it code vise. Papyrus art is inspired heavily by one of old Pongy's works, so credits to her for that too.
Banners
As posted before, there's been several attempts at art banners, in favor of pixel art. But sadly, none were ever finished, so uh... it is what it is currently.

Sketch banner #1 - by ShimmyTheGuardian


Sketch banners #2 and #3 - by Fissi Kohho
GAMEPLAY
part I - Menu & Overworld
part II - some of Fun Events
part III - Battle
part IV - Game Over
fun fact - game over has 4 unique laugh sounds :D
A funny concept I made back around May of 2023 (maybe bit earlier)

consider this a first 'draft' of how location should've been xD
and with that... I believe it should be it? Hope you liked at least something out of it. I won't be promising finishing anything really, but I will try to do more. Just... keep in mind over time I lost that spark and interest I had, so there's a high chance I might do smth else, smaller or bit bigger than this.
although, must say, keep in mind, if I do cancel this - I'll post/show all I had for this lol.
Hope ya have a nice time of the day, stay safe. Good luck. See you later
- BloodMourn out.
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