Hello, this is Ava speaking!

This is gonna be a more content packed update, as the last one was mostly just words.

General Update

Things have been doing well!!! Game progress is slow as always, but we're working on getting that all sorted. This is why @kasssm is making an animation of waterfall encounter, so we still have some kind of progress made meanwhile. Everything else is doing well, but let's talk about that animation first more.

Waterfall Encounter

First taste of something other than Sans encounter, let's get straight into it!!!

Visual improvements

First thing to bring up is the sprite has been updated a bit! If you were on the page a few months back, you might have seen the first version of this sprite. Thanks to Zal and Keane, my sprite has been improved a lot!

Thanks to the animation starting up, we have also given Papyrus a ton of new expressive poses! Zynro did a good job of thinking of these poses, and Zal for turning them into sprites!

This is gonna make the fight feel a lot more lively compared to Sans' battle, which is rather plain in terms of posing and expressiveness. :p

Animation progress

@Kasssm has managed to get a few attacks done already! Here's some of those :3c

(Kasssm speaking, the gifs have come out slightly faster than the original speed and I can't figure out why, so just gonna have to live with that lol)

The attacks are a lot more convoluted, too! I think we've managed to capture Papyrus' personality pretty well in these new attacks and poses, what do you think?

Other stuff

New members!

This next section will be welcoming our new team members!

Welcome @apricoskaart , @PixelToonsJaafar, and TheToonHero to the team!

Apri has come from our coder applications (which are now closed), and will be helping us with coding the game!

Pixel will be helping out with sprites. we have a lot of cutscenes and other fun stuff planned, and the extra help on the sprite and animation side will be very useful!

Toon was a member from back when this project started back in 2020, so it's great to see him back! He will be helping out with music and sprites!

Other progress updates

Waterfall encounter's sprites are basically done, only missing a few animations! A lot of other sprites for different chapters have been making good progress too!!! We're gonna keep those sprites under wraps for a little bit though.

Writing has also been doing very well, with chapter 1 being entirely completed! This leaves prologue as the last chapter to be written, funnily enough!

Me and the other writers are very happy with the new direction of this game, and hopefully you can all see more of what's new in the next update! :D

There is something we can show as a result of this new direction though, ONTO THE MUSIC!!!

New Music!

A remake of our menu theme, done by TheToonHero! The song has been around for years now and we felt like the song wasn't too fitting or that good anymore... So we remade it! The menu itself is still in it's early stages of being made, but you might get to see a bit of it soon!

Another song made by Toon, and funnily enough where chapter 1 will start.

And lastly, the shop theme, by Toon once again! The game has definitely gotten bigger since this story overhaul, and hopefully we can show off more stuff like this soon :3

New art

We have some new art for Prologue/DUSTTALE. All the songs that play during this chapter will be using this art instead of the DUSTBELIEF piece. Check it out!

(art by Mwehster)

Conclusion

Lot bigger than our last update, which was mostly just text!

Hopefully these larger updates will come out more consistently... I'll be trying to make smaller posts every once in a while, so this page isn't just rotting in-between these updates Xp

Some stuff we just can't show, as they are very much in spoiler territory. We want the game to be new in terms of story, so we have been very selective of what we're choosing to show.

Thank you for giving this a read, and we hope to see you all again soon! Goodbye!

-Ava & Kitchen Crew