Two weeks have passed and I return with the newest Monday Update. The second one of 2025. I made some very good progress on the game and introduced an entirely new system. Let's take a closer look.

• SPRITES: The newest addition to the game is a sprite system. That means animated, talking portraits of the characters that are displayed to show emotions during dialog. I had them in MIST, but opted to not use any sprites in CoM, because I felt like I could show all emotions in my renders. Now, because the player will be able to choose which Veil is done next, I need them again to allow for some varying paths in the dialog. Something that would get way out of hand if I had to render every possible combination of images.
  
  The sprites are of course an upgrade to the ones I used in MIST. They talk, blink and change poses like they did in MIST, but they also breathe, change their color according to the environment and change size depending on how close they are.
• SEX SCENE: I posed and animated the second of three sex scenes that the update will get. For this one, you can actually see a work-in-progress teaser in my last post on Patreon.
• THE VEIL: Utilizing the new sprite system for the first time, I started posing and writing the beginning of the next veil. In 0.5.1 you'll just get a short introduction to it, but you'll already be able to see the next heroine of the game. In a way at least.
• CHANGES: Now that I decided to start using sprites again, I felt like it would feel a bit disconnectedto not see them all game long and then suddenly they pop up in the newest veil, so I went ahead and implemented some short scenes with the sprite system in earlier parts of the game, where I felt like they added some depth to the dialog and replaced just a few, back and forth renders.

All in all I was very busy over the last two weeks. The sprites taking up most of my time. But now that the system is pretty much done and only needs a little additional testing, I'll be able to get even more content out of the way and it's even fun to use. I'm very pleased with the progress and you'll hear from me again very soon!