Devlog #5 – Story & Art Update

Hello!

It’s been a while but we’re still alive! And we’re still working on Norvale!!
Life kind of got the better of us this year but we’ve still been working on the full version of Norvale.

We’ve been taking into account the feedback we received from our updated demo’s player survey and have been fixing and improving the game accordingly, such as players encountering some issues in regards to the audio which has now been fixed.
We’re always looking for feedback and ways to improve so please do try out the new demo and fill out the survey if you haven’t already!

Now onto the updates:

STORY

We’re happy to announce that writing for the story is done~!
The story for Norvale is roughly a little over ~16,000 words. It’s a nice, short story for when you want to just play a quick visual novel to relax.
We’re still doing a bit of fine tuning here and there, mainly just double-checking things like continuity and typos and the like but the overall story is finished!

The candy store route has also gone through some reworking so it’ll be a slightly different experience compared to the demo version!

ART

Over the past couple of months, we’ve been working on designing and finalizing the remaining cast of Norvale!  Sprite work is finished for all characters so it’s only a matter of adding them into the game.

Here’s a peek at the characters you’ll meet in the third route!

Louis, Sara & Lathika
(We will do a proper introduction for them on our social media at a later date.)

Now that character related artwork is finished, we’ll be moving to designing backgrounds. The current plan to overhaul all the backgrounds from the demo and try to start from scratch again since we’re not too happy with how they turned out haha ;;

It’s a short update but we thank you for your patience and continued support!

Links
Carrd: Alchemilla Studios Carrd
Twitter: @Alchemil_Studio
Instagram: @Alchemil_Studio
Itch.io: Alchemilla Studios Itch.io Page