Happy Halloween! [& Progress on new CGs]


Happy Halloween everybody! 
This year I couldn't do celebratory images, so I thought of sharing something different!

Progress on the new CG art is going slowly, but almost all the gore CGs are done. It's a slow process because it depends on my funds availability and on the artist IRL, but we're getting there. Here's a little preview, blurred of course because of GORE and my inability to make the spoiler tag function properly on itchio. The artist asked me to remain anonymous for now. I asked them to make little changes based on the two most common criticism I got on the old CGs:

1. "Art is too over the top \ cringey" > so the CGs are toned down now, especially the wasp pitfall scene without bloodshot eyes and veins. But still disturbing, don't worry. I recall some players telling me they got traumatized by that scene specifically, hence I decided to tone it down... a good scare is ok, but I don't want to cause nightmares for real. Only the decapitation scene is missing out of the gore ones, but there's no way you can tone down a beheading. Still, very few players got that ending and got to see its CG, so the most urgent one to me was the one in the common route, the one you couldn't avoid. 

2. "The honey torture scene looks sexual" > I never intended it to be, my intention was to depict something abhorrent. Still I asked the artist to change the angle, they tried to make it work with different sketches and... there's no way you can make something like that not ambiguous if text is skipped. I also had a full conversation with the beta testers about this and they made me realize that basically anything in that scene could be viewed as kinky if someone wants to. The only solution would be to remove the scene entirely, but I noticed that, despite the complaints, that's the scene that always makes the thumbnails of video and it's the most remembered one of the game.  Given that the game is nsfw because of gore I'm taking the risk and leaving the scene be... for now.

I opened some commissions on Ko-Fi to help me fund the new art AT THIS LINK
Commissions specifically because, with the latest conflicts in the world, I would encourage donations to help the people in need instead of me.
That's all for now, see you next update!


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Can't wait to see the new CGS!!! I have such a huge amount of affection for this game (just as I have for the others that you've produced as well, of course), that I feel emotional every time I receive a new update! Keep going, Banya, you are doing amazing as always, and I am looking forward to see everything you're planning! -^o^- Kisses from Lean!!! ♡

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Keep up the hard work!

Thank you Cicada! >\\\<