Date an Otter March Devlog

Hello again.

Development is going smoothly, but I have grown rather busy this month. This is good. I will now explain and update you on various Sour matters.

The main source of things keeping me busy is that I've been working hard on a pair big projects (one of which is Date an Otter). I've been working on both projects for a while, but an upcoming deadline unfortunately meant that I wasn't able to get out the update for Date an Otter that I planned to release this month. The good news is that the other project is not far from being announced now. I hope you all have prepared sunscreen because we'll be sending you somewhere hot.

Date an Otter:

Date an Otter's progress hasn't been totally stalled, however. I've finished 7 of the 11 art pieces needed for the male final chapter update. Once those art pieces are done, I can get to work on finishing the soundtrack for the game. After that, I only need to write out the final few scenes needed for the game. I hope you like H-scenes.

Once the male final chapter is done, there's just one more beta to make! This final update will contain all the 11 art pieces needed for the female perspective scenes. This update should take a bit less time since it's mostly just art and writing, but I'll also be doing what I can to polish the game for release.

I've done a bit of polishing for release already! 

The CG gallery and Scene viewer have seen the bulk of this work. I went through and completely rewrote the code for the gallery to use the built in Ren'Py gallery systems. In all my other galleries, I had written my code from scratch. This is all back-end work that most of you won't notice, but it'll make the galleries run just a little better now.

As far as gallery updates that you may notice go; I also redid the visuals of the gallery for the next update. 

The most obvious change is that the gallery thumbnails have previews now! I'm happy with how these work. It's actually resizing the original art in engine, so the filesize of the game will not be impacted at all.

On top of the thumbnail previews, the gallery title and options on the right side are now generated by the engine instead of being images that were being loaded. This might not seem significant, but it will now be easier to resize these for different devices and they now support translations! 

I think that's everything for right now. I have a lot of art to draw, so I'm going to go get to work on that. Look forward to seeing more otters (and a cat) soon!

Also, remember to go play the latest Date an Otter Beta (0.3)! You can play it here:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/date-otter-beta-47528975 

tl;dr: Sour is working on two games. The art for the Date an Otter update that wraps up the story is mostly done. Also, the gallery system was reworked. Again.