Hello all!

Hope all is well, I've been busy with another job recently and trying to not burn myself out working on Griseus. I want to break parts of this down to show what I've been working on.

• MV

I finished work on a fun little project, a short music video around Griseus. Just wanted to talk about it a little bit more since I really enjoyed making it and think it turned out great! Please also go listen to HEALTH, if you like rock.

• UI

I've been working on different aspects of the game and reworking the UI along with some writing. I've made good progress on working through different menus having unique visuals.

There are a few different visuals based on the menu, (history, saving / loading, etc.) I'm really happy with how they're turning out! It's a lot more clean than what I had before with the base visuals.

• CHOICES
  
  

After some considerations, I want Griseus to be a pretty linear story at this point. There won't be too many choices (that are planned), but I still wanted to add my own style to the choice screen when we see them. Below is the flat visual I have.

WIP at the moment, there will be a unique flair effect prior to the choice screen to indicate one is about to be made. This is pretty much the idea I have as of now, and I will see how much I can add to it.

• PROLOGUE REWORK

I mentioned in a post before but I want to do a big rework on the prologue, or at least a few larger tweaks here and there. I will touch up the page on itch to give a better description of Griseus and it's visuals (hopefully when Itch.io fixes some current issues). However, I personally feel my writing and pacing for the prologue doesn't fit where I am now. Granted it is work from over a year ago when I just started writing into the script, and the art style is different as I was working through it at the time.

I will include some changes to the prologue in different areas while updates come out, but don't want to spend time entirely reworking it all at once. I hope to have it reworked by the time I finish the story, but it may have to wait to be completely revamped until after the story is finished.

• CHAPTER 3

Chapter 3 has a script written out, as does the whole story but not as defined. There is barely any work into the actual chapter within the script at the moment, but I will start work on it soon enough after my updates feel fleshed out so I can include them with the chapter. This will likely be the biggest chapter so far, while it comes with all the updates. It will not be out by the end of the year.

• FUTURE OF GRISEUS

Sounds worrying but worry not! I will continue work on Griseus until it is finished, but that comes with it's hardships. I am at an age of my life where I slowly get busier with work, maybe finishing more of my education at a point, and will be moving within a year. As such, updates of Griseus may take longer and longer. This is still a solo project at the end of the day, figuring out how to code specific things I want to visualize, moving my pre-written story into the script and adding extra story to fit into a visual novel, drawing each individual CG and hand-drawing each UI element. Every chapter so far, I've thought of more and more to add and ideas I think of, but it adds more work load than I should already have for being solo.

So, with a few suggestions from friends and fans, I am looking into opening a Patreon for Griseus, just for possible development consistency. I'll see how it works out, but do not feel obligated to join it! I appreciate all the support I already get and Griseus is still a passion project. I'll post it on here when it is set up.

That's about all I have to share at the moment! Thank you for your time and continued support of Griseus. I appreciate every single one of you.

Have a good holiday, and stay warm.

-Rys