Hello!

So I guess this would technically be considered a major update since it's been a while, and I honestly forget that this is a feature.

But I have been working on part 3 of my visual novel/interactive comic Hunderian since February of this year.

So, the things that have been done so far:

1. Dialogue 

All of the dialogue has been added for these chapters! Some of it needs some editing, and I want to add an interactive part to it since it'll seem like it'll be the only set of chapters that won't have one.

But otherwise, the dialogue is usually the first thing to be taken care of when these are started since it's the easiest to take care of.

2. Chapter Cards

Of course, the chapters need separation so the chapters are usually the next thing I do next after placing the dialogue, so these are the ones for Chapter 3:

3. Character Sprites

Five new characters are introduced in this part, so of course, they had to get sprites done! Surprisingly it didn't take long for me to get through them. All of the scenes that use character sprites have been added and positioned correctly. Out of all these parts, part 3 probably uses the sprites more since a good amount is conversations.

3. Music

Normally I save the music for last, but I felt the need to do something about it now. I felt like the variety in the music used so far seemed very limited and felt more apparent that the same few songs were being reused. So I spent some time finding more that I can use. Especially sometimes I found it hard to choose a song for the scene due to the limited options. 

4. Action Scenes 

That's pretty much what I call parts that don't use the character sprites. Usually, fight scenes, but really any scene that sprites can't really depict, especially if it involves the characters' dog forms.

Working on these is usually the longest and most tiring part since it's just me drawing them. These are a handful of the ones I did that I really like how they came out (in no particular order):

They're done in kind of a two-panel-like format to 1: save more time drawing full scenes and 2. A lot of text I feel requires multiple images up at once when talking or describing something.

I have about I think 10 or 11 partial scenes I still have to illustrate for. If life could be nice to me, could maybe get it all done in before the year ends! Buuuut-

5. Talk Scene Backgrounds 

Pretty much the backgrounds for the scenes with the character sprites. I thought I had them all commissioned around when I first started work on this project in 2020, but once I got to part 3, I realized that wasn't the case. 

I'm missing 3, and since I use these scenes as reference for when I do action scenes as well, it's really needed. Especially scenes I have a few I would use the Backgrounds for as reference.

But with all that said, I wanna say that part 3 is maybe a bit over 70% completed? I know it'll still be quite a bit before I get this done. And I'm not too sure how often I'll do a devlog like this since really the only updates I can really say are that... another scene was illustrated? That sounds boring. If anything, the next one will probably be when all of them are fully illustrated!.