March news summary

Artwork:
- Created Snape's body and 'private parts', which came out very good! and its a true monster in itself!
- Fixes to Snape's body/limbs(errors or changes which was spotted and corrected later on)
- Created main menu for the game, which in itself was a huge task, it consist of a background and 7 characters, so it was a very time-consuming and cumbersome task for Yamkha since all the characters needed a high amount of details and layering - The plan for the main menu is to have it as a living background, so we will add animated weather effects later for it, and the whole menu will change depending on the corruption level in the game, background will become more and more dark and evil looking, weather will change from sun to rain, and thunder. The girls outfit and position will change as they get more corrupted. So there are some big plans for this menu, and it have actually taken up most of this months time in the artwork section - It have been previewed off to the high level paid tiered patreons, and will be shown to lower levels patreons very soon, and then the public will be able to see it a few days later(soon). Its not that it have any really lewd going on.... right now anyway!
- Simple backgrounds. Yamkha started creating some simple backgrounds which takes way less time to produce compared to current backgrounds we have shown off. These backgrounds will serve as layouts for outside areas like forest, beach or water. And we will surely use this technique to also create some more simpler backgrounds inside the castle where possible.
- Main backgrounds fixes. All our current backgrounds have morning, day, evening and night cycles, which means there are complicated shadows and lighting for each timezone. And here there was some issues which Yamkha pointed out which have now been fixed.
- Conclusion of artwork is we were a bit behind this month, and did not have time creating Filch, which will be one of the priorities for next month. There are also still a few other fixes and changes for some characters I had hoped we would do which I will mention in the "planned for April".

Coding / Development:
- Started scaling background artwork and merge them into our repo on GitHub(Mike), but we encountered some problems the way the lighting was layered, and was testing out different ways of doing it the best way possible, it was either letting Renpy control the blending, or prerender it manually or a mix of both. While testing these things out, Yamkha spotted some errors for the lighting which had to be fixed before continuing, but he was in the middle of the main menu background which means this task got pushed to 'end of month'.
- Scaled busts for all our characters so they are ready to be merged into the repo(Zellemate). Conclusion is lighting is fixed now, and Mike is in the process of implementing backgrounds, and bust's after.

General / Story:
- Went over all the current story and adjusted everything to match day1 and day 2 so the whole experience will feel more natural and smooth. There is still a fair amount of continued story and events missing for evening time and night time on day 1 which will be my main focus for April(Zellemate). We are currently around 100 pages(31.000 words) of story for day 1.

Music / Sound effects:
- Commissioned a 3th music track start of month, which was split into 2 music versions(tracks), a snippet is already on the preview channel. Besides that we took a break from commissioned music to not go completely broke. Plan is to create 1 music track each month going forward - Which means next music track commission is this coming week!
- That said we also investigated the option for free music themes and also free sound effects which is something we will also be utilizing.(Mike/Zellemate).

Planned for April:
- Fixes to main menu, road-sign fix, castle tower fix.
- Snape, "private parts enhanced" and boner behind clothing, which is something I hope we can have for Snape similar to Dobby.
- Creation of Filch bust, with extra focus on UB details and also his "private parts".
- More simple backgrounds(as describer earlier).
- Remaster of Pansy Parkinson, a character we have had ready for some time, but not shown off yet, she need some enhancements to match rest of the current girls' bust's.
- Swimsuit CG. To avoid spoilers I won't really say much else for this, except its already planned.
- Besides things that needs to be created which is already planned(and paid for) we have some options for rest of the month, which is unplanned, it will either be a new character bust, a CG scene, or start of a background. We will see!
- Development, focus on adding artwork into the game, from bust's to backgrounds.
- Story, finish day 1 completely, and continue with story for day2 after.
- Other stuff! Always something else!

That's all folks!