Steamberry Studio

20/10/2024

Hi everyone! Time for this week's update.

Summary

• Worked on Sprite Expressions

  • Got Wil's expressions done for Ch3 - the LI scenarios.

• Started on Wil's expressions for Ch4

• Finished up the Daaz CG 

• Started on a Raif CG

• Got a new set of BGs

Writing

Worked on fleshing out and fully outlining the side story for this episode. I want to ...

Episode 2 CG sneak peeks

With Episode 1 in "early access" and set to release later next week to the public, I have already been hard at work on Episode 2 content.

Because the public build isn't created yet (just in case there are last minute bugs anyone reports), I've been trying to focus on work that either doesn't have to be added yet (like CGs) or that is easy to remove (sprite expressions, for example. Because those files are already coded to be excluded from public builds).

The next episode will hav...

13/10/2024 Patreon Devlog

Hi everyone! Time for this week's update.

Summary

• Finished Sprite Staging

  • Including adding Raif and Yren's eye colours

• Started on CGs

  • Finished one of Kav's CGs

  • Started on one of Daaz's CGs

• Started on sprite expressions

  • Coded Wil's expressions for the Ch 3 common route

Art 

This week in art, I started working on t...

Asher Artwork

Ari has effectively won the recent poll for artwork but in the meantime I finished up this in-progress piece I had of Asher. I'll be doing the Ari one next!

No real point or purpose to this one other than making Asher look pretty. LoL

You can find a couple of cropped variations and sizes attached!

As usual, it's a more abstract background because I can't be bothered to draw proper environments for character art like this. Ha ha. I did at least manage to add some red into it ...

October Q&A (Answers)

And here are the questions and answers for this month's Q&A! Thanks to all the askers!

Are there going to be spicy CGs in When Stars Collide? 👀

I think I've been asked this before and every time I say...

I still don't know how spicy they are going to be. LoL! 🤣

I've done a few test sketches and still haven't made my mind up. They won't be explicit, I know that much. It will all come down to how much they're implying.

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06/20/2024 Patreon Devlog

Hi everyone! Time for this week's update. It's been a bit of a crazy week (and I've lost all sense of time so I completely did not realise that today was Sunday.

Summary

• Error Fixes

• Released Early Access to Yellow Tea and Up

• More work on Episode 2

  • Writing new glossary entries

  • Sprite staging

  • New SFX

Writing

I didn't really do any significant wri...

When Stars Collide - Early Access (episode 1)

Hello Everyone!

The time has come. 👀👀

This is the post with the link to the "early access" of Episode 1.

Below you can find the link to access the Patreon early access build for When Stars Collide.

This build is only available to the Yellow Tea and above tiers at Patreon. No one else has access to this link.

This link should not be shared with anyone. 🙏

And now here is some info you need about this build. Please be s...

Wallpaper/Character Art (Poll)

Hi everyone. In the next month, I'll be doing another character art/wallpaper art and here, you can vote on the character!

I put all my characters in a randomiser and these were the six winners. So they get to be in the selection poll for a random character artwork.

(I just thought it would be fun to let everyone vote on an artwork this month instead of me just drawing whoever I want. I find certain characters more fun to draw so if it's left to me it's always going to be the sa...

October Q&A (taking questions)

Hi 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...

28/09/2024 Patreon Devlog

Helloo everyone! Time for this week's update! 👀 Let's jump in!

Summary

• Sent out beta to the Black Tea tier members

• Lots of error fixes

• Preliminary work on Episode 2

• Bonus story planning

Writing

In terms of writing, this week I spent some time planning out future bonus scenes in more detail.

I don't know that I'm going to have bonus scenes in every chapter (probably not) and I will...

22/09/2024 Patreon Devlog

Helloooo~o everyone! Time for this week's update! 👀

Let's jump in!

Summary

• Finished Asher playtest

• Finished the remaining CGs

• Sent limited beta version to a couple of people

• Bug smooshing

Art 

This week I mostly finished up working on the remaining CGs and got them coded in.

Features

I mentioned last week that the flowcharts take a bit to load beca...

Beta Build (Episode 1) - When Stars Collide

Hello 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.

This link should not be shared with anyone.

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.

Do not use existing saves.

Renpy will always...

15/09/2024 Patreon Devlog

Hello everyone! Time for this week's update! Some cool updates this week! Let's jump in!

Summary

• Finished Daaz playtest

• Started Asher playtest

• Finished Cim sprite art

• Coded Cim sprite

• Some QoL fixes to various screens

• Finished up flowchart screen

• Finished setting up flowchart activation through Ch2

• Made correction from an alpha tester

• Started Ash...

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Sneak Peeks (short clips)

A collection of short 1 - 2 minute clips from Chapter Two.

Episode1_Snap5 - Watch Video

2024-09-08 00:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post

09/09/2024 Patreon Devlog

01/09/2024

Ramble

Hellooo~ooo everyone! Time for this week's update! Some cool updates this week!

Let's jump in!

Summary

• Started Daaz's play test

• Finished the flowchart for Chapter 2

• Coded the expressions through the bonus scenes

• Fixed some features on the flowchart screen

• Fixed some other lurking bugs

Features

This week I focused on finishing the flowchart...

Chapter 2 (Sneak Peek)

Have a sneak peek at the first 10 minutes of Chapter Two.

This clip shows Wil waking up and ruminating on their situation, then joining the rest of the crew for their first breakfast together.

Chapter Two is very much a chapter of "everyone gets to know everyone else" so there's a fair amount of back story sharing and various characters expressing interest in and learning a bit about others.

01/09/2024 Patreon Devlog

Ramble

Hello everyone! Time for this week's update! Some cool updates this week!

Let's jump in!

Summary

• Finished Kav's playthrough

• Coded all of Asher's expressions

• Coded all of Daaz's expressions

• Coded all of Noel's expressions

• Worked on the flowcharts...

Features

The big feature of this week is the flowchart! Now that I have the code for plug in itself I'...

25/08/2024 Patreon Devlog

Hello everyone! Time for this week's update!

Let's jump in!

Summary

• Finished Noel's playthrough

• Started Kav's playthrough

• Finally got the colour slider in the game with the help of Windchimes who was slightly traumatised by Wil's teeth.

• Worked on the guide for reasons

• Coded all of Wil's expressions through Chapter 2

• New Music room coded

• New Gallery coded

...
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Noel Wallpaper

Just tossing out a quick wallpaper I did with Noel. No reason for it other than I wanted to get in some practice with his face. I'm including several sizes and cropped versions for ya.

It's nice to have time to do some extra art for this game because it really helps ensure I can draw these characters more accurately when I'm able to draw them for more than just the game art.

Side note - but Noel's pants were not going to be shiny. I just decided that if Raif got shiny pants, Noel...

18/08/2024 Patreon Devlog

Hello everyone! Time for this week's update!

Let's jump in!

Summary

• Worked on the guide again

• Finished Raif's playthrough

  • Lots of fixes

• Affinity metres

• Started on Noel's playthrough

• Started Noel's CG

• Finished Yren's bonus scene

Art 

Started on Noel's CG and finally......FINALLY got a BG I've been waiting for mon...

11/08/2024 Patreon Devlog

Hellooo~ooo everyone! Time for this week's update! Though it's a day late because I forgot to post it yesterday even though it was fully written up. ╰(*°▽°*)╯

Let's jump in!

Summary

• More script fixes

• Started sprite expressions

• Worked on the premium guide

• Worked on Raif's playtest

• Worked on CGs

• Worked on bonus scenes

Art 

CGs!

I fin...

When Stars Collide - Q&A Part 3

The final part of the Q&A talking about various challenges and takeaways from working on this game...SO FAR.

Challenges and Takeaways

How much harder did you find it to offer 4 body types?

Honestly it depends on what you're referring to.

Writing wise - not that much harder. There are small variations in a few places, depending what sprite body you have, what nouns you're using, etc.

But that's also true ...

When Stars Collide - Q&A Part 2

And here we have the second part of the long Q&A.

Here I will address play style and what I think it will be like to play this game as compared to my others. And I will talk about some of the features and things you can expect to encounter.

Let's go!

Playing and Play style

Is Wil a "self-insert" or player surrogate character?

So I consider "self inserting" a play style and I do not try to define how people play or en...

When Stars Collide - Q&A Part 1

Hello everyone! And welcome to the start of the Q&A of doom.

Yes. Doom.

There is a lot of doom below in fact. You should beware.

(I'm just kidding. but anyone who has known me for two seconds knows that I cannot give simple answers. I'm sorry.)

I have taken questions from whoever had questions to ask and I shall do my best to answer them here. This is a pretty long Q&A so...I've broken it into questions about the release style, about the structure, content, an...

04/08/2024 Patreon Devlog

Hello everyone! Time for this week's update!

Let's get into it.

Summary

• A ton of small script fixes (mostly minor wording fixes and/or changes)

• Got MC's expressions set up on the menus for the first episode

• Set up the Chapter recaps

  • Quirk of the recap screen is that Wil has to be referred to neutrally

• Set up a scoring spreadsheet and did all the scoring through chapters 1-5

<...
2024-08-04 04:25:28 +0000 UTC View Post

27/07/2024 Patreon Devlog

Helloo~~oo everyone! Time for this week's update!

Let's get into it.

Summary

• Revised and formatted Raif's endings

• Revised and formatted Yren's endings

• FINISHED the writing. For now.

• Worked on the playthrough of Yren's route

  • Made more edits along the way

• Worked on UI stuffs

  • New glossary screen

  • New Save/Load screen

• Started o...

  2024-07-27 04:16:01 +0000 UTC View Post

22/07/2024 Patreon Devlog

Hi everyone! Sorry for the late devlog this week. I don't have a real reason other than "I forgot to post it." Ha ha.

Some of you know that I write my devlogs up in google docs before I post them here and the result is that sometimes I write them up but forget to post them over here (particularly if I'm busy like I was this weekend!)

Let's get into it.

Summary

• Revised and Formatted Kav's endings

• Revised and formatted Noel's endings

• ...
  2024-07-22 03:51:44 +0000 UTC View Post

13/07/2024 Patreon Devlog

Helloo~ooo everyone!  Time for this week's update! I have cleared a major milestone for the game development. So..yay! 

Let's get into it.

Summary

• I...I DID IT.

Writing

 I finished the draft. @_@

639,000 words for the rough draft.

I still have to revise Kav, Noel, Raif, and Yren's ending chapte...

06/07/2024 Patreon Devlog

Helloooo everyone!  Time for this week's update!

Summary

• Finished drafting Noel's ending scenario

• Finished drafting Raif's ending scenario

• Sprite tweaks

  • Noel

  • Yren

  • Daaz

• UI stuff

  • Namely creating screen mock-ups and re-designs

Writing

This week I finished up Noel's ending chapters and managed to also finish...

30/06/2024 Patreon Devlog

Ramble

Helloooo everyone!  Time for this week's update!

Summary

• Finished drafting Kav's ending

• Started Noel's ending

  • About halfway through with it

• Lots of UI stuff!

Writing

This week I finished drafting Kav's ending. Of course, I still have to edit it and proofread it, which I'm going to wait to do but the draft is totally done.

And I started on Noel's endi...