Hey everyone!  Sorry for the slight delay, but I had a lot of stuff to get together for this update.  The whole team is coming together to get things done for John's route after my chronic illness made work in the winter-spring difficult.

Writing:

I'm now writing John Chapter 2. Chapter 1 is complete at the usual 20k-ish words. Things are flowing much more smoothly now that I've figured out a better relationship dynamic between John and Marion, and John's character flaws are more apparent. He may seem like Mr. Perfect at first (and he certainly does to Marion, who gets a big ol' crush on him quite early in the route) but of course nobody's perfect. A challenging Marion in particular can bring out John's bad side (a compromising Marion deals with some different challenges).

By the way, if you missed it, you can now view our preview of John's route on our Youtube.

Sprites and CGs:

Arrapso has completed the more-naked versions of our Sherwood sprites. We noticed their trousers were visible on screen in scenes in which they were meant to be naked, so we now have trouser-free sprites. As we're trying to keep a Mature rather than AO rating, nobody's crown jewels are visible, but the illusion of nudity is now much better.

We also have John's common route CG complete. As I've been sharing these early, please take a look. I adore the lighting in this one, as well as the tenderness.

Lore Intro:

As we've decided to change the animated lore intro from an in-engine piece to a full animated movie, Lawrichai has been making great strides with Live2D. She now has the first couple "scenes" in the intro completed. Here's an example of one of the animated characters who illustrate our intro story, an elven greater fae:

The final product is going to be quite lovely!

Mega-Guide:

This spring I discovered that I'll need to remake the Mega-Guide from scratch. When my previous hard drive died, it took the source file for the Mega-Guide with it, and I was an idiot and only had the .pdf version backed up online.  I've rectified that and am using the .pdf as a reference to re-create and add to the guide.

We have enough money in the budget to make the guide even nicer, so I've hired Sandra to create some illustrations for the lore stories.  Here's one of the ancient druid Morgana taking a ride in a hawk as King Arthur and Merlin raise the Wall that cuts Stennland off from the rest of Avalon.

Since I decommissioned the VC Games website (too much expense and I didn't have time to upkeep it properly), I will re-distribute the in-progress Mega-Guide to everyone who pledged for it and it will have a new permanent home for updates on the VC Games Google Drive from then on out. This time it will have a wealth of new information and stories as well as walkthroughs for the Sherwood routes.

Whew!  It's going to be a busy summer of writing, coding, and arting, but it's great to have everyone along for the ride.  See y'all in August!