jadeddreams - General Update #71

Hey there everyone!

The team is making some nice progress on all fronts, so today I have some news for you on what's coming.

We've completed most of the planned work on the update at this stage, with only one area remaining.

We're aiming to release early access either this upcoming weekend or the next weekend, depending on how things go and if there are things we are okay with potentially being unfinished and will be completed in time for the public release.

One of the background tasks we've been working on over the course of the past updates is updating the combat artworks of the squad. The game has been out for more than two years now and everyone in the team has become more capable with experience. For those that were around when Starwatch was first released, you'll remember there was already a huge difference in quality between that time and when we released the first version of Silent Echo.

We're near the end of revamping all combat artworks, as we've now finished all of Ava's variants with this update, and only Lina is waiting for her touch up. The plan was to start working on updating the squad's idle images after we were done with that, but a little surprise we've cooked for Sylvia has made it necessary for her idles to be revamped now, so I added it a preview of it attached to this post.

This will give you a little idea of where we're going with these updates, and what's coming for the other squad members.

We've added three new hairstyles in this update that lean more towards the unconventional/alternative style. Two can be found in the game, and the third one will be this release's patron exclusive item.

We're pretty happy with what we can do right now by combining the different customization systems available in the game, with complexion being perhaps the most impactful one so far.

We always read everything that is posted on discord or in the comments here, so don't hesitate to drop your suggestions for customization options!

Once this update is released, we will be working in parallel on the next Silent Echo update but also on the next Starwatch update.

A fair amount of progress has already been made over the past few months on the art and code side, and we're only missing a chunk of story content to be able to release a beta.

I have taken away our writer's stash of poptarts as punishment. I'm hopeful we'll be able to give you good news in the next general update about the upcoming Starwatch update.

That's it for this week!Have fun!