chubby grey doggie posing nakedly by a window-like block of colour
same doggie with a blue striped sweater on. there's a basic sky and building scene out of the window
been meaning for a while to work out an stylistic approach that feels painterly/collage-y while feeling consistent and straightforward to produce
naked ranzo for scale, as usual
We're still a long way off any kind of release, & I still plan to put together a shorter project as a way working with a designated team. That being said, this is the first time in the history of the project where I have looked back at a route from start to finish & thought "I'm happy with this."
Next steps will be to work with an editor to ensure the scenes flow well together and to assist in making the other routes follow a similar pattern while remaining distinct and surprising.
I chose to wrap up Joe's first because it focuses the most on 'what happens when', both historically and in the day-to-day events. This means that It's a big deciding factor in the pacing of every route. Getting this squared-away essentially stops me from making a million on-the-fly changes.
With it being a year since Billy's update, I decided to set myself a deadline, which I'm happy to say that I've met.
That deadline was finishing the story structure for the project. As of tonight, I'm putting a big 🔒 on everything that happens in Joe's route. I'm happy with it (& I have to be!)
When I've worked out exactly where to re-upload the project, I will post about it here. If you see it hosted on any other platforms before this time, they are unofficial.
- choob
With the recent updates to Itch (and many other sites), I'll likely be archoving the current build of Dawntide in some shape or form.
Though I don't think this build will be affected by the changes, the changes themselves show which direction a lot of online platforms seem to be moving in.
i like billy from dawntide (you guys should play dawntide (it has billy in it (from dawntide)
my bad lol, complete oversight on that one
• Stepping away until my employment status gives me more time to work on the project.
• Hiring a dedicated team, most notably an editor and a coder.
• Adopting a more centralised collaboration process.
• Working on something shorter to build experience.
• Establishing a reliable source of funding.
As promised, I've put together some information on why I've declared a hiatus and what my plan is for the project's future.
The full document is available to download from the game's itch page. I suggest reading it if you'd like to know all the info, but I've included some bullet points below.
Also yes, super secret last minute @dawntide.bsky.social print!
Portion of the profits go towards funding the VN :3
amigurumi doll of the character Riley (a pine marten) from the visual novel Dawntide. They are wearing a white knit jumper and partially sewn together trousers in a brown twill fabric.
close up of half finished doll sized trousers in a brown twill fabric.
finally got out of a rut and started working on Riley trousers!
Ranzo sitting on his bunk's bedside, with rim-light from a yellow porthole highlighting his frame.
Ranzo from Dawntive VN by @choob.bsky.social <3
Cap'n
Joe the kestrel & Billy the hare having a heart-to-heart talk on the balcony under the moonlight
Just an excuse to draw Joe & Billy from Dawntide #DawntideVN
"Hi, Ryebread. I'm back."
＃DawntideVN
Riley
#furryart #furryvn #dawntidevn
In the Chariot bathroom scene
Sal from the visual novel Dawntide feels conflicted about buying a dakimakura cover…
a study of sal's main sprite/pose from the visual novel Dawntide, the red deer crossing her arms and looking at you with a slight grin
sal study/portrait just bc shes really fucking pretty and i wanna take them out for a latte #dawntide #furryart
There will be a v1.14 later this week to catch whatever small issues are likely still lurking around, but hopefully this update resolves the more glaring issues that were impeding gameplay for the Ranzo & Griff paths.
Patch v1.13 fixes the following:
- The 'Sayer: Scorn' error across all scenes
- The issue with Graham's scene triggering the wrong opening if you spoke to Joe at the Wheelhouse
- General typo fixes
- Credits not fading out the music in Ranzo & Griff's routes
dawntidedev.itch.io/dawntide/dev...
This should be fixable today, but I'm going to hold off on publishing in case anybody notices any other issues I can address in the meantime.
Apologies to new readers especially, as this is affecting the Ranzo and Griff routes most heavily.
The main error is caused by the renaming of a character voice in the files. I thought I'd caught all of the changes in the script to match, but it looks like some of the changes weren't saved.
We've had a few more bugs reported, so we',re going to provide another patch for them this week.
Unfortunately, I'm back at my day-job now, so this will take a bit longer to fix.
There will be a new version of the release uploaded this morning to catch some stray typos and an error that seems to be showing up on some devices.
Something else it's probably worth mentioning: there are two endings to this chapter!
Updated the files on the Itch page with a tweak that should have fixed the issue. Let us know if the problem continues