Hi all, it's been roughly a week and a half since the release of b2. (2.1 notwithstanding), I hope people ended up liking the update.

As per usual, it's time for yet another preview. This one is going to be a bit shorter than the others, but there's some big changes coming.

I'll start with the thing most people tend to care about, the art.

I'd like to formally introduce a new character who will be appearing primarily in Stephen's route: meet Orlando!

Orlando will be acting as the love interest for Eric in Stephen's route. He'll also be soft acting as your panda li due to Vincent not being romanceable in his route.

You'll get to meet him next build, and I hope people end up liking his character, you are going to be seeing a lot of him in the upcoming build.

Next on the agenda is a that I've decided to finally pull the plug on the old Eric sprite and have decided to redraw it from scratch, you may have noticed I've kind of redrawn his art a lot at this point in an attempt to get it to a point I am happy with, and ultimately I finally found the issue isn't so much the art itself (Though, I did end up redrawing his body proportions), but his colour scheme.

So, Eric's fur colour was changed from the somewhat unique grey-blue to be a more natural brown-white. The colours of his clothing was also changed while still keeping the same outfit. 

I hope he looks much nicer to look at, my main goal was to make him look younger, and I think I did a good job at that. I am however open to criticism on this, since Eric's art is ultimately very important to get right. 

(Also some minor parts of the story will need to edited to match the new art but rest assured there won't be any changes to the story because of this.)

I've also attached a swimsuit sprite for Eric, let's just say he's going to need it.

Ending with some smaller things: I've attached some smaller updates for characters that will be appearing in b3, trust me these two will finally be relevant soon.

I'll keep the next section brief: Writing and Coding.

Writing wise, I am for the most part finished with Vincent's part of the update. And about 60% done with Stephen's. 

This update will also go into Theodore's portion of the update, but that hasn't started writing yet, overall I'd say I'm about 65% done overall, though.

Coding wise, I haven't started much yet - but that doesn't usually take me longer than a day or two, usually.

My current aim is to get this out exactly one month after the past build, and progress is going well towards that at the moment.

Anyways, that's all I have to share for now - before I end this, I wanted to say thanks for 300 downloads, even if you downloaded and didn't touch it or only played to when Raphael and Stephen are introduced, it still means a lot to me that people saw this and even considered downloading it at all.

Otherwise, if you have any questions or just want to chat, message me on discord @The Final Bear.

And see you in ~2 weeks for the next preview!