Sunday, October 5, 2025

Weekly update


This week, I mostly worked on character design since there are quite a few designs I need to wrap up for the next two updates. One of these characters will be introduced in this month's update, but won't be playable for some time. (same for another character that will appear in the December update)

The next recruitable characters will be the main show of the february/march update that will introduce the next world: Kogetsu! Why am I talking about those characters months ahead of their update? That's because we have a new poll available this month that will help me choose on which characters to start making animations for. Work on their world will keep me very busy when we get to that update, so it's best to start now.

As for Kogetsu's characters, here's who they are!

Nagi:

Nagi works for an idol agency and has been doing so for years. He is childhood friend with Yuuto and also his roommate. He is superstitious and loves occult stories and objects. He is the one responsible for Cervius's summoning to Kogetsu and could use a demon's help to solve some romantic issues with his secret crush.

Yuuto:

Nagi's childhood friend, roommate and fellow unit member. More reserved than Nagi, he is more of a quiet young man with a passion for video games. He's the one who gave Nagi the grimoire which led to Cervius's summoning.

 

Itsuki:

A simple-minded jock who loves to mess around. A popular guy at his university, ace of his team and liked by many. He has a short attention span and loves to try all kinds of things. Currently, he's Nagi's secret crush even though they have yet to truly interact.

 

Akuma:

A former idol and current manager of Nagi's unit. While he may look intimidating, he's very protective and considerate of those he takes cares about.




 

**Do note that portraits are not final but general character design will not change.

For the upcoming week, we will be starting on the beta testing for the new DA update. If everything goes well, by the end of the week, we will be able to put the new version on the Discord server for further testing!

25 comments:

  1. Question: Hey Red! What guess Shonen (Teenagers Men), Seinen (Adults Men), Shoujo (Teenagers Women), Josei (Adults women) choose for played your games?

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    1. I'm not sure I understand the question but I would guess Seinen?

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  2. Looking at the character descriptions for the new world, it seems like none of them have the same fighting abilities as the characters from the first two worlds. This makes me curious about what kind of enemies I'll be fighting in the third world's story stages.

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    1. Kogetsu is a bit of a special world, especially in how we'll approach it compared to other worlds ;)

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  3. Loving the new characters. Are they based on any specific characters?

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    1. Not really, I used references like any artist would but they're not based on any particular character this time around xP

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  4. There Yuuto most likely same name from pal lol

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    1. There was a Yuuto in Pal? Unless you mean Yuu?

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    2. I idea you mean Yuuki? :p

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  5. I like the new crew already, will they be actual party members? Also Nagi is very cute, and I need Itsuki to wedgie him (its the ideal nerd/jock relationship lol)).

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    1. Yep, they will be new members and Nagi isn't really that much of a nerd (that'd be more Yuuto) and that's not exactly part of Itsuki's personality xP

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    2. Awesome! Also darn lol.

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  6. Itsuki and Celf look like they are lost twin brother? lmao

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    1. Mmmmh they were not made to look like each other but I can kinda see what you mean haha

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  7. I think Yuuto are considered mysterious transfer student at university

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    1. He's not quite that as people know him, but he does have special stuff about him compared to the others :P

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  8. i havnt checked in with the updates for a while
    is palestra completed now,, i mean at least the open release version

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    1. It is, but I'm slowly releasing the free updates for it. Every DA update I release, I also release a Palestra update so there will be one at the end of this month.

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  9. How can I do the Image Restoration adventure to continue Dregan's faction questline?

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    1. I believe this is an adventure you can get in the brothel if I recall correctly.

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  10. Does corruption do anything?

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    1. Currently, corruption only changes the waiting animation in the Stage Performance main screen and also affects the reaction of the characters in the dates to some events. It also makes getting the reward scene at the end of the date easier

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  11. Just so you know, at least for the option to pay for the Phrygius clan expansion, it just eats your resources and does nothing and you can repeat that infinitely

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    1. I'll need to check but I believe we fixed that bug in the upcoming version but we'll have to check, thanks!

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