AnimeCon Adaptation Dev Anniversary '22!

   We're now entering our third year of work on AnimeCon's visual novel adaptation, so I'm making a milestone post to share with patrons of all tiers to celebrate.

   Our game will follow the main story while also allowing players to explore and discover things throughout the convention area and the hotels so as to provide the anime convention experience. The planned scope for our first release will follow the first two Parts or first fifteen Chapters—from the beginning in Brian's apartment all the way through the end of Friday night's truth or dare game. Following releases will each expand and improve upon the game until we've advanced through the entire AnimeCon Harem story.

   Development has been a difficult journey.

   A full year into the project, the character artist we'd been hiring Zaph bailed on us, necessitating the replacement of all of his art, which was—and continues to be—our major setback. After months and months of hiring artists for test work to audition for the position, we're proud to say YeMcBear will be our character artist! We'd already been hiring her to populate background crowds of people by drawing them in layers directly overtop our backdrop scenery illustrations. So, now the designs and style between our main cast and the AnimeCon attendees will perfectly match.

   Above is some of YeMcBear's progress on the main cast. She's consistently been finishing one character set and two illustrations every month, as well as still finding time to draw in a background crowd layer. She should catch up to where we were before in no time at all, and then surpass the assets we had from our previous artist.

   Our background artist Basem_S1 has been working steadily throughout almost the entire two year period, and so our collection of backdrop scenery has grown far, far beyond what we'd hoped to have available for our first release!

   If you're interested in seeing more and wish to help support this endeavor, pledging at the $5 tier will allow you to do so!

   As of this post we have five character design sets, four character illustrations, eleven theme music tracks with composition and vocals by TennesseeFlores, and well over fifty backdrop paintings to represent game areas. Many visual novels cut every possible corner in order to save time and money, but I am 100% committed to putting just as much love and attention to detail into this project as I do the AnimeCon Harem fiction—and it's all of you patrons who've always made this possible.

   Thank you everyone for all of your support, and this time next year I hope to have even more amazing progress to show!