Awesome game. By far the prettiest, smoothest and genuinely endearing story I've ever played. No other art style remotely comes close to the polish this game presents. The dev seems super into it and involved with the community they've fostered, I hope this game and their career continues to blossom because wow.
As an artist, I hesitate even asking but do you have any vague timelines that you're aiming for, as far as release dates? "No" is a perfectly acceptable answer, but was just curious.
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Separately, two observations, one for you one for me lol
-This might just be a bug but I saw that the gallery did not save all of the animations I unlocked, like the mother's bathscene and following scenes did not save when I unlocked them in Veteran mode. Not sure if its a New Playthrough exclusive feature to save those in the gallery.
-I noticed that towards the end of this version when the mother tells you that your sister ran out (when she's going sketchy stuff), that her sprite is still in her room lol. Mega small observation.
thank you for your message, which I'm very pleased to hear, as regards deadlines and release dates, if you're an artist you can understand that with this level of detail, it's not possible to rush people, it would be counterproductive, they wouldn't appreciate working with me, and they could also leave overnight. So I leave a good margin of maneuver and deadlines that suit both them and me, usually 2 weeks for a CG, 1 or 2 weeks for a background depending on the level of detail, and two weeks to complete the animation.
For the gallery problem, it's recurrent with android, if you quit the game prematurely, the scene save is incorrectly taken into account.
And as for Noriko staying in her room, it's a sprite display problem that will be fixed in the next version :)