Status Report - HERO: Week of 09.15

Stationery Store - boutique de papeterie

Big news, travelers! We've reached another production milestone. The background art is now complete! This phase began back in April of 2022, so it's taken twenty-nine months, not counting the years of pre-production that came before that point. If you recall, the script took fifty-five months to write, plus the pre-production on the outline and storyboard before that.

Florist - Magnoliophyta

Here are a few statistics. There are 369 different backgrounds. Some of them have only a single version, others have up to a dozen, accounting for all the times of day and weather conditions and other such variations. They're grouped into locations such as character homes, the shopping district, etcetera; with the school taking the lion's share of around 100 of them. In all, there will be about 850 different images in use for the background art.

Shoe Store - Foot Mart

I still have to put finishing touches on the images, plus whatever tweaks I'll need to make once I start assembling the game, so there's still work to do. But for now I'll be transitioning on to drawing character art. I've mentioned before that there are about forty-eight characters to draw, so let's estimate another two years to get them completed.

Electronics Store - Kamiya Electronics

I share regular progress mainly on mastodon, but also maintain twitter (@sasuganick and @sasugastudios), and tumblr (sasuganick and sasugastudios). Here's to moving on to the next phase. Let's see together how things turn out.

Nick