Remodeling the sauna!

Hi, friends! After some discussion, we've made the decision: We're porting Jjimjilbang: Haunted Sauna to RPGMaker MV!

The game jam demo was made on RPGMaker VXAce, and, well... no shade to anyone who still likes VXAce, but for what we were trying to do, it's kind of a dinosaur. We want this game to showcase art, music, and writing. But with VXAce's tiny sprite canvases, we couldn't showcase the art all that effectively. Between that, the fact that MV has a bigger plugin library, and the fact that MV lets you have a screen resolution that fits on a modern computer? Upgrading was the right call.

So what does this mean for the final game? For one thing, all of the art is going to have to be redone. We're working on new sprites and character portraits that fit on the bigger canvases MV offers. 

We're going from this: 

To this:

A higher fidelity canvas that's twice as big and gives Lorcan much more room to use the digital collage style he wanted to use? Dream come true. We're experimenting with art styles right now.

Which style do you like better? Drop us a comment and let us know!

Either way-- it's going to take us a bit longer than we'd like to have a functioning demo of the MV build. We've been saying "a couple weeks" for, well, a couple weeks now. But the full art retool is going to take a while, especially because we want to clean off a little bit of the game jam jank. 

So, keep an eye on our itch page, and we'll let you know when the 0.2 beta releases!