BURA's Laboratory

lgdays:
“ Hi everyone! In an effort to keep a more fluid conversation, we have just launched our Discord server here: https://discord.gg/qNpHUak
Come join us to discuss anything related to Long Gone Days, talk to us, and be part of the community.... — lgdays:
**Hi everyone!**
In an effort to keep a more fluid conversation, we have just launched our Discord server here: https://discord.gg/qNpHUak
Come join us to discuss anything related to **Long Gone Days**, talk to us, and be part of the community. Feel free to invite your friends as well!
We’ll also be sharing works in progress as we work on upcoming updates, and in the close future we’ll be hosting activities with the community, so stay tuned!

lgdays:
“ Important Announcement + Progress Report Last year we announced Long Gone Days would be released this coming April, but even though we have been working hard all this time to achieve that, we feel that more time is needed to reach our... — lgdays:
**Important Announcement + Progress Report**
Last year we announced **Long Gone Days** would be released this coming April, but even though we have been working hard all this time to achieve that, we feel that more time is needed to reach our desired level of polish.
When we started working on **Chapter 2**, we thought it would be ready in just a couple of months. Because the script wasn’t nearly as long as our first chapter, we decided to work on it together with **Chapter 3** (there are 4 chapters in total), so we could release both at the same time. On top of that, there were still fixes to be made to **Chapter 1**, and down the road, we realized that the amount of work required for this update would be even larger than we expected. Still, we made the mistake of believing we’d be able to deliver the full release in April.
At the moment, we don’t have a definitive date on the full release, because we don’t really want to make the same mistake again, but we can say with certainty that **the next big story update of Long Gone Days is almost finished and will be released really soon.**
We also would like to take this opportunity to share with you a lot of progress and changes that are included in this upcoming update. The first big change is that Ivan is finally usable in battle:
**This chapter wouldn’t be complete without some new characters and party members:**
Keep reading

lgdays:
Don’t let the world bring you down.
(Song Credits: “Welcome to the World of the Living” by Lee Rosevere)
As a bonus, here’s a step by step GIF showing a bit of the process, from our rough sketches and tests, to the finished composition (we had to compress it a lot, but it looks a bit better on our Twitter):

Today marks three years since I started working (for real) on @lgdays.

The first image is the first mockup I made (the shadows are a mess, oops) and the rest are some quick doodles I made for the battle system. I’m glad the battle system ended up looking way better than this, haha.

(I have shared this a lot already, but in case you haven’t seen it yet, here’s an article I wrote on Medium showing how the visual style became what it is today)