Hello everyone! For this week's devlog, we are moved rather slowly because of the holidays, but things should get faster in a couple of weeks. Otherwise, the art is going as steady as it can, since we are finishing the new scenes and the old ones with animations!

We just need a couple of other sprites. Usually, men's sprites are not as much since we normally wouldn't need a naked sprite of men for obvious reasons. As for backgrounds, it is a bit more complex depending on how complex the place and how much it needs to be done. However, we have a lot of stuff done, that we may post in the patreon's WIP post, although we are focusing on scene wips at the moment, but who knows.

So, last week you saw Kiki, but here's her twin, Jenny!

Kenny is not exactly waifu material like her sister, but she is as wholesome and cool like her friends. Even though there's planned content for her and her sister (wink wink) that's not the focus for now. The next update is called Connie's update, after all. However, since there will be content with them, so it is nice to take them out of the way, not to mention their involvement in upcoming plot points and game-exclusive quests! We also outright enjoy making them.

We are also working on the partner system as shown last week! We showed a bit of the face pins we are going to use as indicators of who is following you. The system will work as a way to have someone accompanying you either on missions or being around you. This may trigger some future events in the future, but so far is so you can "grind" (quotations until the mini-game is done) their relationship. Townies and minor characters will work differently from the gems, but since this is called Gem Domination, the gems (And Connie because of her relevancy) will be the main focus.

You will be able to arrange your party as much as you want, you can ask them to join you when talking with them, but you can ask them to leave once whenever. Having someone in your party may unlock extra options in different places of the game, but, again, this is something we will flesh out as going on.

As stated last week, remember we will release an android port in the next release! And also, animated scenes! Remember to also take a look at the weekly WIP. Definitively one of our favorites so far!

Stay tuned, everyone! And thank you all for your support.