Hello Everyone!

Making steady progress with the On Map Events for the Khrono Tomb!  I've finished the concepts/gestures for all 69 images that will be added for the Khrono Tomb to have a bit of combat and exploration for the new map.  There may be more added to the map(s) as we go beyond 0.5.0 but for now that seems like a decent place to start.

I will be working on these throughout October and will be uploading a new build for Halloween that will include the Halloween Game Over and various bug fixes for some festive fun for the end of the month.  The above image is some of the 'results' that can occur if various members of the party fall into the quicksand tile trap but the rest (or none) of the team makes it to the end of the puzzle area.

After the On Map Events we still have the following:

-Game Overs for Mummy Girls, Gold "Nebby" and the Winter Solstice.

After all that is finished up we will finally be launching 0.5.0 and see where the future takes us.  It is still early to say what/where I would focus next for the game; however, we are already at the following statistics for the game as a whole:

-216 Battle Sprites (Includes 6 normal/naked sprites for the party for a total of 210 unique battle sprites for perils)

-90 Game Over Images (+27 Khrono Tomb/Halloween Game Over Images)(+~15 Game Over Images for Remaining Game overs for 0.5.0) for a eventual total of 132 Game Over Images (Some are variants, 21 Enemies with 5 Game Over Images for 105 Unique Game Over Images and about 27 variants (Full Opacity/Transparency)

-77 Side Event Images (+69 On Map Images for Khrono Tomb) for a total of 146 Side Event/On Map Events

-(3 System Images)

For a grand total of 497 Images total in the game so far....  (or 470 Unique Images in the game)

The Current Game File for 0.4.2c is 342MB as a ZIP file and ~440MB Unpacked.  The one thing that is both partially good and somewhat bad is there isn't really a 'scope' for this game.  What started as sort of a hobby project has turned into a 2 year project that I work on in my free time.  There are plenty of areas that I could do with lots of different fetishes/perils that I've barely scratched the surface of.  Some themes have remained somewhat prevalent throughout development such as tentacles and bondage but there is still stuff I could do.

Although I'm a solo dev doing the art and programming I would argue that I am more of an artist than programmer.  I try to do a few things with the programming but nothing too fancy and I draw what I hope is a decent amount of artwork for the game that people enjoy.  I am still unsure what the true 1.0.0 build of Mira Co Rescue would look like but I am also wondering what the future of the project should be nearing the two year mark.  Is this a good stopping point and a sequel be made or is Mira Co Rescue just a huge, ongoing project that just keeps going.  Since I am the only one working on it hopefully it wouldn't suffer from too many programming errors as content increases but there is already quite a lot in the game as is.  Would taking a break from Mira Co Rescue after 0.5.0 and working on another concept game be a good idea/change of pace or just keep this train rolling.  I am a bit curious what people think at this point.  Please feel free to comment or supply feedback as to how the project is going.  

Thanks for reading this far as well!  I hope you have a nice rest of your week!  Until next time.