Hellooo everyone! Time for this week's updates!
Added some of the new necessary BGs to the game
Added some of the new outfits into the game and did a lot of bug fixing with them
Created some new outfits for some of the LIs
Raif
Daaz
Noel
Worked on sprite expressions for Wil through chapter 5
Added some minor BG animations
Added so...
2025-02-08 02:12:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Just a another artwork of Noel. This time doing one of his favourite things. Reading
Does Noel really wear reading glasses? I don't know. He's wearing them here though. Because. Mm hmm.
As always you can find several different resolutions down below.
2025-02-05 23:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post02/02/2024
Hellooooo~ooo everyone! Time for this week's updates! It's been a crazy time in real life with a lot of things popping up on my "Real Adulting" calendar.
But you know...we muddle through!
Created a new outfit for Wil
Went through the story prepping for sprite expressions
Minor code things like adding dissolves to the menus or adding Yren and Raif's eye colour changes
Received some new ...
2025-02-02 01:09:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Hellooo everyone!
Just uploading a new wallpaper - Yren and shiny pants.
The general consensus was that it would be nice to include all the extra art I've done in the music room gallery. I haven't added any of it yet but I kind of wanted to do vague "sets" of similar art.
I have this set of images where the characters are wearing very shiny pants or else are in moody/neon lighting. (Or both if you are Raif) So I wanted that to be my first set. The problem was that I didn't...
2025-01-23 01:54:34 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone!
This is just to let you know that I've updated the current Episode 2 EA and Beta versions with the 2.3 version that has some error fixes, typo fixes and the final two CGs for Noel and Yren.
The bonus scene should now reflect the proper skin tone now as well.
That's all!
2025-01-20 03:56:11 +0000 UTC View PostShould I include all the extra art I've posted to Patreon in the game as unlockables in the music room?
That's it. That's the question.
I've posted a fair bit of character art here and I was wondering if I should include cropped, smaller version as part of the music room gallery and let players unlock them as they play. The full sizes would remain available here on Patreon only.
2025-01-13 00:17:34 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone! Time for this week's updates!
This is showing up very late in the day because certain people who live in the same house as me can't not interrupt me non-stop while trying to write up these updates. I won't name those people but you know who they are. (╯‵□′)╯︵┻━┻
Corrected a few more errors (mostly typos in the bonus scene)
Made some slight alterations to some of Wil's outfits and how they're set up in ...
2025-01-12 07:09:42 +0000 UTC View PostHelllooooo~oooooo everyone! Patreon update coming to you from 14 km away from the usual location.
Which is a nerdy way of saying that I have moved locations and am typing this from the new house which currently looks like a cardboard and suitcase apocalypse but has functioning internet. A functioning tea pot. And locatable tea in the cupboard.
All the essentials.
As you can imagine, I did not get much done dev-wise this week....BUT. I did actually do some stuff. So let us ju...
2025-01-04 07:19:04 +0000 UTC View Post
The third in the planetary lore series - Ecelin, Daaz's homeworld.
Daaz is one of the few characters actually born on the homeworld of his people. Many of the other characters (Asher, Noel, Raif, Wil, etc) were born on colony worlds instead.
As always you can find a PDF version below for those who want a text version.
2025-01-02 23:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
A new planet and species profile - Mylora. You can find a PDF version below.
One fun fact about both Raif and Yren is that despite the two of them being the oldest LIs, they are both considered quite young in the context of their species. Even Raif - who is 67 UC standard years, would be viewed by most Myloriens as being similar in age to Asher, the youngest of the LIs.
Yren, in particular, despite being older than Noel, is viewed as barely even an adult by other Myloriens.
Hi everyone!
Welcome to the Early Access version of WSC Episode 2.
PLEASE READ:
I wanted to let you all know that this version of Early Access is missing two CGs (one for Noel and one for Yren) as I simply did not have time to get them finished before I really needed to release this.
Additionally, the bonus scene is not yet beta tested and likely has typos in it. Again, I just did not/do not have time to do a testing run of it.
It looks like I will be very busy ...
2024-12-20 14:35:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I decided to post up the profiles of various planets and species that appear in the game starting with the most basic of basic..........................
Earth. Ha ha.
Well, everyone is pretty familiar with this planet but it's nice to start with the familiar since it gives a baseline for the other planets I'll be posting down the line.
You can find a PDF attachment below.
2024-12-19 23:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone! Sorry for the slightly delayed update. For those on my server, you know it was a really rough week. Ha ha.
They are doing construction two houses down from us on both sides. Putting in a pool on one side and demolishing a house on another.
It's been incredibly loud early every morning which is a bad combination with insomnia.
End result, I'm exhausted. Well and truly.
It's been hard to work on things because I'm so tired it's genuinely difficult t...
2024-12-16 01:44:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is a vocab list for Iyudhi, Daaz's native language.
Ecelin doesn't have a global language like Mylora. Inyudhi is spoken primarily on the Night Side of the world but isn't the only language used by the Kuyu.
This language is also spoken by fluently by Gates.
Daaz doesn't use this language a whole lot in the game but there are a few phrases that come up here and there.
You can find this list in PDF form below. As always, these lore posts are Patreon exclusives. Pl...
2024-12-12 23:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostHellooo~ooo everyone! Time for this week's update.
Finished the Raif CG
Started Daaz CG
About 50% done with it
New BG
Finished drafting and revising the bonus scene
This week I finished drafting and revising the bonus scene for chapter two. This is a group scene so there is only one and it's just under 5000 words (4885 - that is the coded word count).
...
2024-12-08 04:04:45 +0000 UTC View PostHere are the Q&A Answers for December!
Short answer:
Yes they would have been able to get out of the black hole. T...
2024-12-07 23:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Hallo! Here is a short list of Ny'Fuian vocab words.
Ny'Fuian is the global language of Mylora and is spoken natively by Raif and Yren. Gates also speaks it fluently.
You will catch a few Ny'Fuian phrases here and there throughout the game.
Mostly you catch bits of it in the form of Raif cursing though. Ha ha.
You can find this image in PDF form below.
As always, these lore posts are Patreon exclusives - please do not repost them off this site. Thank you!
2024-12-05 23:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone! Today starts the beginning of our next Q&A.
Just like before, I'll take questions for a week and then go through them and post all the answers.
As before, you can send questions about:
characters
character reactions
lore
game stuff
game development
future releases
writing/art methods
etc
For any of my games and characters. I will c...
2024-12-01 23:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone! Time for this week's update.
Lots of corrections
Fixed the flowchart issue
Released updated beta
Worked on the bonus scene
Worked on the guide
Completed Asher CG
Started Raif CG
Completed a couple of other minor assets
Got a new BG sketch
Continued working on the bonus scene - the roug...
2024-12-01 02:09:23 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone - just letting you know there was a small update to the current beta. There isn't a lot of new content - just a couple of additional CGs. But I have made a lot of corrections and also corrected the error that was causing the Chapter 4 flowchart to crash when zooming.
It's also not lagging any more.
Asher has a new CG and I think I implemented a Kav CG right after the previous release.
There is a new background that shows during the dimensional loop sequence whe...
2024-11-30 03:27:47 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone! Time for this week's update.
The big update is that I released the beta version of Episode 2 to the Black Tea Patrons! Several of them have been studiously finding errors and bugs - including some really significant ones. So thank you to them!
Aside from that, I have been working on other things as well. So...let's get into it.
Worked on the bonus scene
Made a lot of corrections to stuff
Finis...
2024-11-24 01:32:17 +0000 UTC View PostHello my lovely Black Tea members! Below you can find the link to access the Patreon beta build for When Stars Collide.
This build is only available to the Black Tea tier of Patreon. No one else has access to this link.
And now here is some info you need about this build. Please be sure to read this because it will save you and me time.
Hello everyone! This is just to let you know that the beta test version of Episode 2 will be coming very soon to Black Tea Patrons.
Most likely tomorrow or the day after. I'm going to try to get the guide updated by then as well.
Beta this time around will last a bit longer than it did last time as will early access.
I do not have all the CGs and artwork complete yet. These will be updated during beta and early access. The bonus story is also not yet complete.
I'll b...
2024-11-21 04:46:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Just made a quick and dirty relationship chart for the crew. Because it's fun.
...that's it. That's the post. Ha ha. There isn't too much about this one - it's just the image!
2024-11-19 01:08:29 +0000 UTC View Post
One time. I drew Daaz.
And he was very shiny.
That's it. That's the post.
(I'm very tired this week. Too tired for typing. Ha ha. But not too tired to post character art).
Okay I lied.
The story behind this one is that I started this and got it sketched out but then didn't like it and drew something else instead. And then one day I discovered all these half-finished sketches of Daaz. And I decided to finish them.
And this is the first of the ones tha...
2024-11-11 23:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone! Time for this week's update.
Let's get into it.
Finished setting up the unlock statements for Ch3 and Ch4 flowcharts (over 200 total)
Finished all the expressions for the side characters through the Episode 2 content
Finished Yren's expressions
Finished Raif's expressions
Started Asher's expressions
Finished one of Asher's CGs finally
F...
2024-11-10 00:24:33 +0000 UTC View PostHelloo~oo everyone! Time for this week's update. Let's get into it.
Finished Wil expressions for Ep 2
Worked on the flowcharts
Got ch3 and ch4 mostly set up
Worked on Asher's CG
New BG sketches!
Art
This week I got some new BG sketches and have nearly finished Asher's CG. I took a break from it because while Asher is com...
2024-11-02 00:54:20 +0000 UTC View PostHelloooo~ooo everyone! Time for this week's update.
So the major update this week is that I released the public version of the episode. It's been out for a little less than a week at this point.
Obviously doing a huge release takes a lot of time and focus so that has taken a fair amount of my time up this week. But so far the release has gone well!
How is development on the next update going? Well...let's discuss.
And here is one additional clip from the first meeting with Kav.
Kav just...being Kav.
WhenStarsCollide - 20 October 2024 - Watch Video
Here are a couple of clips from the start of Episode 2. Most of the characters do not have facial expressions yet. So everyone but the MC will just be staring judgementally. But you do get a glimpse part of the first meeting with Kav from the next episode.