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Institute Focuses on Auto Components for ICEs and EVs Key Points: Five-day ESDP ended on February 16, 2026 Program covered ICE and EV auto components Focus on domestic growth and export markets JAMSHEDPUR – The National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur concluded a five-day entrepreneurship development program on auto components for domestic and export markets on February 16, 2026. The…

Image: Last drawing on the white board of all our team members; we are alien blobs with little antennae.

Well, my plans were going to be that I doodled everyone as the little aliens or something, but unfortunately nobody got back to me over the weekend, so I wasn't able to do it. We had our group meeting last week as well, and I did make some alternative sprite edits for Madison's dialogue if the boxes were displayed in the middle of the screen after I saw that there were changes. That way, the sprites weren't cut off so tough at the end. I thought they looked bad when they were shown in the game, so I made the changes.

This week I finished up the remaining sprites with the time I had allotted myself, and they were put into the drive. I worked pretty late into the night to get the final touches done on what I could, and did the same process of saving time that I used for the Mother on Syd's sprites. I think the decision is helping me in the long run, as drawing for long periods of time even with stretches and breaks is still rather painful if I'm not careful. On the downside, I have come to realize that the quickest I can get a sprite rendered for this game is approximately 30 minutes. However, this number becomes closer to 40 when I have to create a new sketch from scratch as opposed to the sprites that already were sketched (as I seemed to have missed a few in the early process and some sprites were added to the list later in accordance with the script).

Image: Upset Mother sprite, rendered. As is the pattern with me, I caught some sickness from Game Club last week and was unable to really work this week as I was bedridden. I'm trying to perceive it as for the best, as I was running on fumes and the grief was still kind of floating around due to my workload. Thankfully it's not nearly as upsetting anymore, and by now I am more upset over being sick than anything else.

Image: Angry Nico sprite, rendered.

This week was spent rendering out the placeholder sprites that were sketched and in the build, slowly replacing them over time. I managed to get all of Nico's sprites done, along with getting the line art done for the Mom's sprites. Apologies for the short update, as things have been tough on me outside of project work, so my work has been slowed down quite a bit.

(I forgot to grab a screenshot of the WIP, sorry!)

Overall, I have been working on finishing the rendering of those end screens requested by Evan, and they should be done by this week. I'm having a lot more fun taking my time with this, so I'm planning to use the time over spring break to get these rendered so they look nice and match all the other assets I have submitted so far. Thankfully, I also heard back from Madison about the dialogue tool; she combed through all her dialogue and thought about which sprites would work best for each scene, and then tallied them into a collective list of sprites we'd need to convey their conversations. Having worked on projects with Madison before, I'm confident that her list was comprehensive, and I trust her narrative skills with my life.

Week 10, I know most of us were kinda running like headless chickens, but I think we're okay in terms of the project. I continued working on some sketches in the meantime, as I was running out of things to busy myself with that were productive, but thankfully a team member reached out to me to get some art for the project.