Killigan's Treasure Devlog

[killiganstreasure]

Hi there. Do you post updates on the game anywhere else? With the banning of adult content (and other stuff that's rather random) I fear you might find a lot of your posts removed and eventually get banned, so i'd like to be able to stay up to date on your progress. Sorry if you've been asked this a hundred times already, and thanks. Keep up the good work.

yeah i’ll most likely end up using the twitter for shorter or image-filled posts and the itch.io devlog page for more in depth stuff.

barely anything on this blog got flagged, but there’s a mass exodus anyway and it’s gonna be illegal to be horny, so might as well be prepared

[killiganstreasure]

Hi. Thanks for the update. Don’t push yourself too hard. Burnout is real. On a side note, would it be possible to put a date at the bottom of your posts? Thanks a bunch! <3

aint that the truth, and yeah sure

[killiganstreasure]

Still working on it?

yep, mainly more privately though

there’s been motivational struggles coupled with trying to nail down the game’s tone on top of my own art and writing style constantly developing (and hopefully improving), i’m only human. there’s been steady progress i can show though

here’s some boys that’ll be in second part of the prologue (yeah, another rework to it, sorry)

and here’s (yet another) killigan revamp (nude version here)

(and yes, i’m working on giving other characters the same HD Fully Rendered 4K ULTRA treatment too)

- December 2018

[killiganstreasure]

No pressure, but this blog hasn’t been updated in a while. Mind giving us an update on things?

sure! since the last post:

i’ve been working on worldbuilding the races, cultures, and regions of canavar

chugging away at the solo route, as well as a more involved lead-in directly after the prologue

a first pass at a bird boy

[killiganstreasure]

Mind sharing where else we can find you?

here (tumblr) and there! (twitter)

[killiganstreasure]

The Next Update

hey guys, been a while

sorry i’ve dropped of the face of the earth for a while here. i took some time off to hone my own art skills, which you may have seen if you’ve been following me elsewhere...but i didn’t mention i was doing so. that was pretty selfish on my part and i hope to be more transparent of my intentions going forward. to get back into the swing of things, i’ve been gradually chipping away the past few weeks on getting back into development.

speaking of! here’s what i have planned for the next update:

solo route

after reviewing it an extensive amount of times...the story after the prologue feels a bit railroaded. i don’t want to make it feel forced into following mac’s schedule, so i’m adding another route that covers much of the same story events to allow for more freedom and to start off with more of a focus on learning about killigan, eventually catching up to mac’s route.

day 3

day 3 will cover the aftermath of day 2 from both routes, including some consequences from certain things you might have done...

and here’s what i have planned for the future, things that likely won’t be in the next update but i’ll gradually work towards:

overhaul of character portraits

one of the biggest things i’ve been wanting to do for a while is overhaul the character portraits to look a bit more realistic, to fit with both the game’s style and backgrounds better, as opposed to the cel-shaded style they currently have. i’ve re-rendered killigan’s base sprite as an example of this and i hope to have more characters to show in the coming weeks!

revising cgs

similarly, a good amount of cgs for the last update were rushed, so i’ll be taking the time to render those better in the future, using what i’ve learned about my about my own art in this time off to enhance it

timeframe of future updates

as far as when this update will happen..that’s a bit up in the air. i don’t want to rush back into development but i also have no intention of going back into the dark again. there’s also a lot of back-end coding and fixes i want to clean up and optimize for faster future updates.

to be succinct, i’ll announce when an update’s coming when it’s ready, there may not be a consistent timeframe for a while. but it definitely shouldn’t be too long

and long story short: i’m not going anywhere, this is gonna be a story that’ll take a long time to tell

see you in the upcoming weeks!

- July 2018

[killiganstreasure]

What inspired u to do this project?

i made a post about this a while back!

[killiganstreasure]

Hey! A note about the last critique, as a writer I think the intro is totally fine. You can’t really expect people to be enormously invested in something during the first five minutes, and I think it sets tone perfectly well. I think the last person was just being a nitpick.

thanks, and it’s all good haha

i appreciate all feedback or critique, even if its nitpicky, and i try to at least address it or act upon it somehow with each release, if i have enough time

[killiganstreasure]

The intro seemed pretty great, highly emotional in the first few minutes depicting the happy life of Killigan, but the moment that it "stoped being happy" (trying not to spoil anything here) it certainly felt jarring, not that it was hard to see it coming, but the impact of the moment felt a bit tone deaf because of how it went from 10 to 100 like that, maybe spend a little more time in the depiction of the happy times before the gut punch would leave the later more impactful.

i see what you mean, yeah. i can try to i squeeze in a little more time for killigan’s childhood in the next release, but it’ll probably be a low priority thing

[killiganstreasure]

Intro is good in the eyes, woke me up playing this game at 2am, 10/10 would do it again.

thanks! i’m glad the revamped intro’s received so well!

[kairisk]

Commission for LazyPierrot!

They wanted me to draw the titular character of Killigan’s Adventure, of which I was more than happy to oblige! (a game that, if to your liking, is free to play here!)

Commission Info

[killiganstreasure]

I'm not entirely sure if this is the same bug as reported by other people: all ui except the message box has disappeared (i.e. the map, day, menu, equip, etc are missing). This seems to occur when you roll back text (in my case with the scroll wheel of the mouse) and pass over a decision (e.g. prying more information from Macsen). The only way (at least that I've noticed) to revert this is to load a previous save where said ui elements are visible. Hope this helps!

hmmm i’m pretty sure that’s the same bug, or at least related to it, but i’m not able to replicate the bug with that method...

what i can do though is put in a block after each choice in decision menus that prevents rollback or scrolling back to before that decision. i already have those set up on all the quicktime events because allowing rollback during those will likely lead to some Real Buggy Shit. it’ll likely make people want to create more saves for certain situations or choices, since they won’t be able to dip their toes in to each choice anymore, but this might help remedy this glitch a bit? what do you guys think?

(i still have no idea how it just fails to show the custom ui at all in very rare cases, requiring a full reinstallation to work right. it might be something out of my control)

[killiganstreasure]

No no no, lootboxes, with the SSRare banana hammock equip for Killigan Mac and Zhokar

[killiganstreasure]

well, if you want equipable gear you could see if people are willing to pay to see something specific, which could be used for a future scene, as long as it fits with the game world or is in good taste for cosmetics. The main issue is how much it would affect game sprites or future scenes... In that case, think it'd be better as a future extra menus option

if you mean as like a patreon reward tier, sure that could be a fun idea! and yeah it’d have to be something that fits within the world and isn’t lore-breaking

[killiganstreasure]

Fantastic game! Can't wait until the next update!!

thanks, same here!!

[bear-muda-blog]

more @killiganstreasure fanart

I love this game more and more with every update. be sure to check it out!

[killiganstreasure]

Alright that seemed to fix it. Thanks for the help!

no problem, glad to hear it!