In game development, things taking longer isn't always an indication of something bad. In our case, it's largely been a result of wanting to make everything as good as it can possibly be! When you love a project, it's very easy to keep adding to and refining it: more character sprite variants, animations, backgrounds, CGs, music, mechanics, and care put into polishing each line of dialogue. Lots of time can pass in that process!
Working on Your Turn To Thrive has been such a wonderful and deeply meaningful experience. It's a project we've poured our hearts into even through really hard times, and have grown with it in the process, as artists and as people. In art we see our own experiences reflected, helping us to heal and move forward even when the future seems uncertain. We hope this story can be one which resonates with you as well.
Much of the writing for Chapter 1 is now complete, character sprite variants and background sprites for the first chapter only needing a little more polish, and CGs have been sketched out thoroughly! Some of the music files for Ch1's songs were corrupted by a Garageband update, but we eventually figured out a way to read the project files and reconstruct them in LogicPro! The core engine is complete, though there is still some work left to do around programming and bug testing mini games. We got kinda carried away with backgrounds. A lot of time has gone into refining our process for making the games pixel art backgrounds as well as making a large number of the hand painted textures used in the games CGs.
We'll be sharing more updates and information about the project over the course of the coming months as we lead up to a demo release of the first 6 scenes of Chapter 1!
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