ALIENPROTEIN

sneaking the separate shots down here

With Dagalis' concept art finished, we moved to Amon's Golden Palace! Here's the finished concept art. Airyn did a wonderful job—as always—integrating the key elements of the city into the palace itself, while also pushing it even further into "Amon territory". My idea for the palace was something blocky, inspired by the structure of chinese military fortresses, tibetan dzongs, and mesoamerican pyramids. I learned a lot of stuff while investigating about these!

As of this month, Airyn has started working on furniture for the interior backgrounds, such as Amon's office, MC's room, and more! I prepared a huge moodboard with plenty of inspiration, and I'm sure Airyn will do a terrific job as per usual. Nothing new under the sun! Astro will start with the 3D model of the palace, and after the interiors are planned, we can really start working on the backgrounds for chapter one.

great things happening in the AMON: CH 1 document /silly

March has been a great month for me script-wise! My editing run has been briefly interrupted by a change of heart in a specific section of Amon's first chapter that I've almost finished writing. Sometimes I get so caught up in the zone that I forget the main goal of a first chapter: being a good cover letter of the love interest as well as establishing the dynamic between them and the main character, even if briefly.

In the meantime, our editor Allie has already started doing her proofreading and editing round, and she has been kind enough to not only correct my non-native english speaker ass, but also give me their opinion as a fellow writer and friend! Hating Amon (as in lovingly) is the reaction I hope everyone has when playing his first chapter!

I also finished writing the VA document for the auditions of Cécile, Vycar, and Valor, and holy hell, the amount of auditions we have and are still receiving! We can't be more grateful. I'll try to work on an automatic response system, if I can, so those who send an audition at least can know we received it. Doing it manually like in our first casting call would surely kill me /silly

And last but not least, I answered a tumblr ask of a decent length to include in our special Patreon ask-box!

WIP of the Compendium icon by @/saturni_idae on instagram and twitter!!

Saturni put the pedal to the metal during March with the (almost) finished prototype of our Compendium! If the WIP we showed you last time was already beautiful, the almost-finished version is just absolutely mind-blowing. Saturni still wants to polish a few things, but we can't wait to show our programmer the whole compendium! Kayden will be the one working on the final icons for the whole thing, and above you can see a few explorations of the compendium icon!

During March I finished writing the voice acting document for Vycar, Cécile and Valor's auditions (as I said above!). I also worked on the small graphic you see above, and I'm reworking all the character sheets we initially had of our cast (those who have been following us on tumblr since our humble beginnings surely remember them) so the artstyle matches our current one!

The sample of our Kickstarter-exclusive mini artbook (what a mouthful) arrived safely on the 30th! On Saturday, we all met in person to take a look at it to send our feedback to the manufacturer, who has been nothing but accommodating the whole time (we finally have some luck in that field). Some images need a bit of tweaking as they look a tiny bit dark, but nothing major! This week Astro and I will work on the modifications and send the files back to the manufacturer, who will give us an estimated shipping time for the whole batch of artbooks.

This month we have also sent our business info to another counseling office in hopes to change consultants. Sadly, our current consultant is still giving us trouble. We'd rather not get into details, but the "boss" even refuses to pick up my calls or reply to our texts. They also ignore my emails, yay! Hopefully we get news soon from the new office. Also, it has been a DOING TAXES MONTH, and I hate the DTM.

Also, during March I've been working alongside @/nena0me to bring Raeya's first Patreon illustration to life! Well, Nena has done all the work while I just threw the theme her way!

For now, you public folks can enjoy this Patreon special artpiece by @remirado, from back in January!

As for me, I sent a very important paper to a magazine and started working on another two papers (PhD hell and all that jazz). Raquel joined me in one of them and sent an abstract to see if it gets approved! It'd be so much fun if we went to a congress together, as boring as it can be sometimes. Mentally, March has been a pretty good month for my OCD! Physically, my legs have given me some trouble due to my genu valgum (knock-knees!), but thankfully some physiotherapy has helped and will continue helping. I also have a set of exercises I must do everyday to improve, or at least so it doesn't get worse. The "moving out" situation is a bit slow and anxiety-inducing, but patience is key!

Astro has been working and studying (he had an exam last Wednesday!) and unfortunately he fell a bit sick (had a fever two days ago, but it seems to be miraculously gone?) so he has been trying to rest a little.

Raquel is a bit stressed due to work and some AI shenanigans in the workspace, and she forgot to bring the roscos she baked with her family to our Ravenstar meeting. Therefore, she's fired (/j).

Kayden is there! Mad at me because he wants to play Resident Evil VII but has to wait for me. Also he's wearing his hair longer than usual and he looks so handsome! (Don't tell him I said that /silly)

March was a good month overall! The moment the physical artbook is ready to be shipped, we will get a huge weight off our shoulders. There are a few things we want to talk about in the near-future, but what's first comes first, and that's our Kickstarter Backers getting their orders once and for all.

And that's all! Thank you all so much for your support and kindness, as always. See you soon!

With love,

Raquel finished Vycar's sprite and expressions this past month and started with Valor's sprite. Once we have it, we'll add her to the casting call graphic so we can kill three birds with one stone (or three characters with one casting call).

I myself have coded Vycar's expressions and tested them! Once Valor and her expressions are done, that'll mean all the NPCs appearing in Amon's first chapter are done!

The first concept of the Mitari District! A different side of Dagalis! :^)

Airyn was a bit busy during February but she's back on track! Wehave already started working on Amon's palace, which already has a finished moodboard! (Did I talk about this already???) Then some interiors. Backgrounds are going to have us busy the most (counting concept + final designs), but little by little we're getting there! Every stone makes a wall, we say!

Amon's CH 1 Editing Part 2 has begun! For this round I'm being extra careful with consistency, adding more personality choices or variants where I think they suit the script, and making sure I'm happy with the trust choices I'm writing. After this round, to our editor it goes!

I also wrote February's Patreon snippet involving Cécile! I had a great time trying to be more creative with my writing and had a lot of fun with that one.

During February I've been working on a new patch for the Extended Demo! This one will include the sprite of "Creatures" during the dream-like scene, a few more minor oopsies corrected, and the voiced names! Talking about that, we'll soon open the Patreon store where you'll be able to buy a voiced name for your MC!

WIP by @/saturni_idae on instagram and twitter!!

BOOOOY OH BOY!! A lot of things are happening behind the scenes at Ravenstar Games HQ!!

Thanks to Airyn, we got in contact with one of her friends (self-proclaimed Gael Number 1 fan) to help us put together our shiny compendium screen. And by put together I mean DO EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We've of course lend them some graphics, but Jesus Christ, Saturni has been working so hard, so fast, and for everything to look absolutely stunning. 

Our compendium is big and with Saturni with us it's going to look absolutely breathtaking—BECAUSE THIS IS JUST A WIREFRAME! THIS IS A WIP!!!! AND IT'S ALREADY INSANELY BEAUTIFUL!!!

As for our personal life, I barely remember what the hell has happened during February besides a few things! In my case, I got my first tattoo, a design that honors my late grandad and my still-kicking-ass grandma, and the experience has been wonderful. I'm now in the peeling phase but I'm being super careful and I'm looking forward to add something else to it in the future! My family and I will be also moving very soon so that means a lot of people have (and still are) visiting our house to hopefully buy it, which is great, but it forces me to move from my room and work in my laptop most of the time. That has stressed me quite a bit during the past month, plus PhD stuff as always, plus the tattoo anxiety, plus my OCD (but I'm doing so much better!!) and so on.

Kayden is doing good! He's in Portugal right now, running away from Fallas (lucky bastard)! Raquel is doing well too! Full-time job doing its full-time job things, but she's quite happy. Sadly she's away most of the time so we barely have time to chat or to spend a lot of time together, but so is adult life! We seize the opportunities as they come and we adapt :^)

Astro is still studying, still working (both on LiL and his teacher job) and he's doing fine, too!

Airyn visited Norway! Which is the most exciting thing that has happened in our group during February, so you can imagine how unremarkable it has been when it comes to our day-to-day.

Things are thinging! Nothing more to say for this one. I'm about to have dinner and then it's back to work, so I'll leave y'all :^)

Take care and stay hydrated!

With love,