Steamberry Studio

24/01 Patreon Devlog

Hey Everyone! 

Today I actually remembered it was Friday! I just got distracted a little bit this morning. LoL

But let's jump into this week's Patreon update.

Writing:

This week I finished up the "potato draft" of Caissa Chapter Four and have gotten about halfway (maybe a little more??) through editing it.

In this chapter, we're finally starting to get Morgan interacting with Caissa a bit more (and setting it up for the two of t...

What if I told you...

Caleb used to look like this:

*sweats*

17/01 Patreon Devlog

Hey Everyone! 

I thought it was Thursday again! What is wrong with meeee? Why is my brain doing this!?

To be fair, I also slept really late today for some reason so I guess I was tired. I had interesting dreams though. That's always fun.

Anyway, on to the update!

Writing:

So this week in writing, I finished Caissa's chapter three. This chapter ended up being a lot more difficult to write than I thought it would be. Th...

What I am Working On Today - a sneak peek

Hey everyone! Just wanted to do a quick post to show you all what I'm working on this week. I am struggling with a scene in Caissa's route so I'm taking a short break from writing to do other things. 

One of these things I've already shown some people but the others are new.

Starting with the top - 

I've been playing around a little bit with Sasaki's design. Something about his colouring has felt off to me for a while. I've played with his hair colour a lot - keepi...

10/01 Patreon Devlog

Hey Everyone! 

Sorry I'm late again! ;A; Omg. I don't know why I keep waking up on Friday morning and being incredibly certain it's Thursday morning! This is weird. >=V

At some point my brain will readjust and then I'll probably start thinking Thursday morning is Friday morning again.

And one day...ONE DAY…there will be equilibrium. And I will wake up on Friday and go "Wow, it's Friday!"

Writing:

I finished doing the edit o...

Yuu Sasaki - Introduction and Snippets

Yuu is one of our Kickstarter stretch goals. We've talked about him a fair amount on the server but as the player doesn't get a chance to interact with him at all in the common route, I decided to post some snippets and information about him.

I have posted snippets and things about him on the server but I wanted to do a much longer post about him for patrons.

Name: Yuu Sa...

03/01 Patreon Devlog

Hey Everyone! 

Time for this weeks Patreon devlog! 

I actually feel like I had a really productive week this week. So let us jump in! Sorry this is late! I was basically convinced it was Thursday for most of the day so it didn't even occur to me to post this in the morning.

Then when I finally sat down to work on it, my spouse decided that was the moment we had to go shopping. =w=;

So here I am at nearly 6:30 PM. D=

But let's jump in, shall...

27/12 Patreon devlog

Hey Guys!

Esh here, with our post-Christmas dev log and the last update of 2019!

It's been a really crazy year, hasn't it?

In the last half of 2018, I moved overseas to Australia where I've now been living for over a year. 2019 involved a lot of just adapting to Australia and getting used to how things are over here. 

The biggest part of 2019, of course, was Changeling's release back in January. It's been almost a year! Changeling has gone on to, at the very least...

More Customisation options

So way back when I first started working on Gilded Shadows, I floated the idea of the player being able to make some choices regarding Morgan's back story. Specifically, the things I considered at the time were in regards to what Morgan is studying in school as well as how close she is to her family.

I eventually got rid of the idea because I felt it might be difficult to make work in the story. But recently, I played an otome that does, in fact, do this. And they integrated it pretty s...

12/20 Devlog

Hey Everyone! 

Esh here with another patreon devlog.

As some of you know, the last few weeks have been incredibly difficult for me. It's sort of been one thing after another, with the "things" getting progressively worse.

I feel like my productivity has been pretty low due to, frankly, extreme exhaustion. As well as just trying to come to terms with some severe emotional upheaval.

But, of course, I've continued to work on this project. But I do feel t...

Rory Hair?

Hey everyone! I'm contemplating Rory...and his hairstyle.

While Rory appears in the demo and common route with rather long, scraggly hair, he can potentially show up again in Jack's route with his hair cut (as he's cleaned himself up a bit at that point.)

Initially I started playing around with his hair because he honestly just always looked annoyingly young to me. 

For plot reasons, he was left with some silver/white in his hair and while I liked the stripe, I'm now le...

12/13 Devlog

Hey Everyone! 

Here is yet another patreon dev log to let you know what we've been up to this week.

Writing:

So this week I finished Caissa's first chapter. This is the revised version of the chapter so I am moving on to chapter two now. (I've gotten started on Chapter Two but haven't made it very far in yet.)

It feels nice to be working on a new route and making good progress on it (to be fair, though, Caissa's first chapter was one of the chapte...

21/8 Devlog

Hey Everyone! 

Here is this week's full devlog. Sorry for the delay - as some of you know, we've been in the process of moving for a couple of weeks and this weekend was the big "MOVE ALL THE STUFF" thing. It's been utterly exhausting.

We're in the new house now - just have to finish unpacking and do some cleaning up at the old place. But I hope to have some time to sit down and write a proper update.

Writing:

As I mentioned previously, I was able...

12/6 Devlog -mini

Hi everyone! I'm just checking in to let you all know that as we are in the process of moving, I haven't had time to write up my usual epic ramble. It will probably be Sunday or maybe even Monday before I really have time.

A quick run down is:

-I doodled a sprite for With the Wind - my "non-existent" side project....and my hand has been hurting ever since. It's getting better slowly, but it hurts to grip things so I have been avoiding doing any art since then.

-I ...

Feedback Needed - Stretch Goals for KS

Hey everyone! So we're in the midst of planning for our eventual Kickstarter in addition to everything else. And one frequent point of discussion is the stretch goals for additional love interests. 

I want to explain how things are set up and get some feedback.

Currently, our highest tier will include the ability to create a new love interest. This can be someone from a list of potential characters I have.

Or it could be a completely new character made from scratch.

29/11 Update

Hey Everyone! 

Here is this week's Patreon devlog!

Writing:

So this week in writing, I worked on the Crimson interlude a bit. I most of it written. There is a choice sequence at the end (which is what puts you on either Jack or Caissa's route and I still have to write out those scenarios. So basically I'm probably around half(ish) done with it.

I also had to go back and make some fixes and changes to Common, Chapter Four due to a plot/lore thing t...

The non-existent side project - With the Wind

Halloooooo!

So some of you know that we definitely do not have a side project going on right now.

Okay, we do.

I wanted to share a bit about it.  You see, recently...I had a dream. Now for those who've known me for a while, you'll know my dreams can be very vivid, very detailed, and a bit like watching TV in my head.

When I woke up from this dream, I kind of went "I have to write that down. It would make a great story. And THAT DOCTOR needs romance."

Normall...

With the Wind (long snippet)

A longer snippet of the very start of With the Wind. Where our MC, who has lived in the mountains her entire life and never actually spoken to another human besides her grandfather, begins to make her way down to the town at the foot of the mountain to start a new life.

As one does.

PART ONE

In Which Our Story Begins With a Broken Promise

Chloe: "Sorry, Grandfather. I'm afraid...I'm going to have to break my promise this tim...

22/11 Patreon Devlog

Hey Everyone! 

Here is this week's Patreon devlog - brought to you by...Esh! Let us begin.

Writing:

Very little writing done this week. As I said, my focus will be on other things for the time being. I did crack open the Crimson interlude and have started somewhat working on that.

The "interludes" are what I'm referring to as a really short portion of the story where the player's faction has been determined, but their love interest has not. It's t...

The Short Story that Started it All

Hey everyone! I was going through my files in search of something (which I still haven't managed to find) and came across something I wanted to share. This will probably go in the lore book as well but you guys get to see it first!

This is basically the short story that formed the very beginning of Gilded Shadows. My original story idea centered around the "planetary A.I" - later dubbed KING by the earth colonists. 

This was a story I wrote that was just sort of about the bac...

11/15 Devlog

Hey Guys! 

Here is this week's Patreon devlog! 

Writing:

This week was almost a purely writing focused week.  I finished out Chapter Thirteen, which took a while but it is done. Woo! 

Chapter Fourteen is in "potato" stage and needs fleshing out and refining. I think I may have that done by the time I do the regular devlog on tumblr. If not, it'll be done this weekend.

And that is the first route. Done. Right now, ...

Common Route, Chapter 4 - Snippet

Just a rough draft snippet from the common route - chapter four. Figured I'd share a little look at whats to come in the next chapters. I wanted to share a snippet of Chapter Three instead, but there's a lot more branching going on through that section so it's a big difficult to show off a cohesive bit of writing that doesn't have some kind of branch to another part. 

In this section, Jack has made his reappearance in the story.  And Jack's car has appeared!

I definitely...

Friday Devlog 11/8

Hey Guys! 

Here is this week's Patreon devlog! 

Writing:

So this week I finished fleshing out chapter eleven and got a rough of chapter twelve written and mostly fleshed out.

Ari's route is now 93% of the way to the target word count, which means the total word count is neeeeeeeeeearly to 26% LoL

The main word count moves up at a distressingly slow pace. ;A; Ari's percentage can move up so much and the main total percentage is just like...

Gilded Shadows - Demo, Chapter Two

Hello everyone! 

Earlier today you all should have gotten another download key for the beta version of the GS demo. This will allow you download the most recent update which includes Chapter Two of the demo.

This time around, everyone got the update at the same time.  If you find any errors or mistakes, please do post them

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Friday Devlog!

 Hey Guys! 

Just popping on to post this week's Patreon devlog. Let us jump on it.

Writing:

I did finish the rough draft of Chapter Eleven but my roughs are………….shockingly rough. So I'm planning to spend the day fleshing it out and getting it to a state that's at least readable.

Everything will get another revision later on but Changeling still had some really rough chapters and missing segments when I did its final revision and I wan...

Caissa intro CG - Process

Hey everyone! Just wanted to do a post showing the process of creating Caissa's intro CG. The intro CGs are pretty simple since it's just a close up of the guy. Ari's was probably the most complex since it's kind of a vaguely actiony moment. And I would say Caissa's was the simplest as a whole.

So here we go:

Sketch, flats, various stage of skin shading, then the addition of a BG + some color/light effects.

The color and light effects are generally done to tie the LI and bac...

Friday Devlog

Hey Everyone! 

Just popping on to post this week's Patreon devlog.

Writing:

I'm really, really keen to finish Ari's route...quickly. I don't know if I'll be able to because I have a lot of other things to work on as well but I'm trying really hard. Right now it's around 84% of the way to target word count of 100k.

I finished up Chapter Ten (though it really is going to need a good edit!) and started Chapter Eleven. Eleven has some...extreme branch...

Caissa Intro CG- WIP

Just a flat sketch with no BG, but here is Caissa's introductory CG for Gilded Shadows! 

This will be the CG the player can unlock after meeting him in Chapter Two. OwO

Once I get this finished, I'll probably get started coding the two new scenarios in which you can meet Caissa and Magnus.  >3

Friday Devlog

Helloooo everyone! 

So this week I'm going to start doing something that's been kind of percolating for a while in my brain. And that is a more detailed Friday update for patrons.

I don't know if it's going to be worth it to do a ramble session at you guys every Friday but we'll try for a while and see how it goes. The idea is that I would put these out prior to the blog update and they'll go into more depth about what I've been doing this week.

So let's ju...

YCH - WIPS (Kickstarter related art)

Hey everyone! Just wanted to share some WIPs I've worked on the last couple of days. They still need some tweaking but these are going to be the two YCH wallpapers available to backers of the KS in a few months.

The idea behind these is that they're sort of like a semi-personalised CG where the male figure is one of the GS love interests (all six will be available) and the female figure is personalised how the backer wants. 

Last time I only partially got them complete before...