Happy New Year!
over 5 years ago – Tue, Jan 01, 2019 at 01:19:28 AM

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Voice Artists Announced!
over 5 years ago – Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 12:00:05 AM

Voice Casting roles confirmed for main characters

We are happy to confirm the voice artists for our lovely female characters!

We are so excited to be working with Kira, Daphne, Aika and Diana. They all suit their roles perfectly and will sure make our characters come alive with their talented voices. We hope you are all just as excited with our selections!

Backerkit Surveys Sent!

As most of you are already aware, the backerkit surveys were sent last week. We have received 250 out of 286 surveys. For the 36 who haven't replied yet, we will continue to send you reminders (Oceane is pointing at you!). Note that the orders won't be locked until early next year, so anyone who wants to make changes to their add-on purchases can still do so.

Many many updates
over 5 years ago – Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 09:14:20 PM

Hi all!

We are happy to present you our fortnightly update. Many things have happened since the last update and we are excited to let you know everything that's been done for the past two weeks.

First off, we have already received our funds. We will surely put it into good use by getting more artwork and music done.

Voice Acting Casting Call Now Closed

The casting call for our main characters, Eliza, Alice, Oceane and Mel is now closed. We have received a total of 108 auditions from both professional and non-professional voice acting professionals. 

We are so excited we spent a couple of days going through the auditions, and have now narrowed down our candidates to 2-3 per character. We should be able to make a decision by next week. We will announce the voice artists in our next update!

Pre-Order Store Now Open!

Our Pre-order store on Backerkit is now open. If you have missed our Kickstarter, you can now pre-order the digital game on Backerkit for AU$20 or US$15. A limited number of physical artbooks are still available.

We will be sending our surveys out very shortly. Once the surveys are sent out you will get an option to upgrade your pledge, and provide any additional info when required.

Background Art Timelapse 

Our background artist Exit Mothership has created a process video for one of our backgrounds. This is one of the many coffee stalls in Victoria, situated in the rustic neighborhood of the East End. Watch how he uses his amazing techniques to create a nice coffee stall full of color and style.

What are we working on this week?
over 5 years ago – Sat, Nov 17, 2018 at 03:20:38 AM

Reminder: Join Us On Discord

A reminder to join our Discord Server for frequent updates if you still haven't done so.

We will be receiving pledge upgrades and Add-ons on Backerkit

The team has spent the previous week setting up Backerkit. For those who missed out on our Kickstarter campaign, you have another chance to support us. And for those who want to upgrade their pledges, there is now a way to do so.

Once the payment has been processed, you should be able to:

• Receive additional pledge upgrades and add-ons
• Pay with Paypal
• Receive the Backers Survey from Backerkit

Please stay tuned. The survey should be sent sometime next week or the week after!

Voice Acting Updates

We hit our partial voice acting stretch goal at the last minute. As soon as we knew it was happening, a casting call was announced for our four main characters.

Hopefully we can confirm the VAs for Eliza, Oceane, Alice and Mel before Christmas, so we can look at additional casting roles for other supporting characters.

While I know everyone is as excited as we are, some of you have asked us how the partial voice acting will work.

First, please be assured that it will be more than the notorious Ahs and Ums. We want you to feel that the characters are alive, so our main characters will have enough voice lines to satisfy you.

What we have confirmed so far:

• The main protagonist will not be voiced. 
• The majority of the voice acting lines will be reserved for the four main female characters. A number of supporting characters will also be voiced, but to a lesser degree.
• We are leaning towards only voicing certain scenes. Since the word count of the VN is around 300,000 words, it won't be possible to voice every dialogue. We believe that only voicing certain scenes should work well. This also makes it easier to switch to full voice acting in the future if we want to.

If you have any questions, please feel free to join our Discord community and leave any feedback or questions!

We did it! Thank you everyone!
over 5 years ago – Fri, Nov 09, 2018 at 12:49:40 PM

It's been a wild 30 days. In the end, we managed to raise AU$10,005. We've hit two big stretch goals in the process, including the partial VA goal. High Five!

Thank you everyone for their support. Without your help we won't be able to hit our stretch goals!

Oops..... I missed it. Can I still back this campaign?

There is a possible option to continue receiving pledges via Paypal. We will try to finalize this next week.

What's Next?

The holiday season is approaching, but there will be no rest for the team. While we're waiting for the payment to go through, here is a list of housekeeping items:

• Future Updates will be provided on Kickstarter, Discord, Facebook and Twitter on a fortnightly basis. For anyone who hasn't yet, please join our Discord community.
• We will start sending backer surveys once the payments are finalized.
• For all backers that include Early Access for the game, we will be contacting you specifically for your Discord and Steam Username, so you can be invited into a dedicated Alpha channel on our server.
• And last but not least, game development will continue as usual. We will be adjusting and fine-tuning our scope, including announcing a VA casting call later before the end of the month.

We didn't hit the last social media goal. Does that mean there will be no Lady Argyle DLC?

Unfortunately, no.

Long answer. Maybe we will revisit this. But that will depend on how we decide to focus our resources after the Full version is launched. 

Again, thank you for all your support. Please don't hesitate to get involved by joining our social media channels.