It's been nearly two months since the last dev-log and by extension, the last build of the game I released. During this time, I've been working tirelessly on the character sprites and as of this time of writing, five of the game's eight characters now have proper sprites, including additional animations depending on the character!

This new build has been released with the purpose of showing off all of the sprite-work I've done so far as well as play-testing the game with other people for this months Leeds Game Toast,  one of my goals for this play-test is to put the game in the hands of novices so I can see how well the game plays without me.  I thankfully managed to find (and fix!)quite a few bugs during my prep for this build but I'll have to keep my eye on any more that pop-up. Another goal I have... is to find artists, artists to do either character portraits for the select screen, or to do stage backgrounds, or both. I shall see if I have any luck with this...

Apart from the sprites, I've also updated the game's presentation. I've updated the on-screen text for KO's and other game states and I've also added a screen for what round the players are currently at before the fight starts. On the character select screen, I've changed the symbols for the characters. I was originally going to have shows represented by famous objects that are associated with the series such as the Journal 3 book from Gravity Falls or the Simpsons donut to represent the Simpsons. But I decided to change it to just show the shows logos because the people I tested with didn't immediately catch on to who some of the characters where so I thought the shows logos would make things easier.

I'm very happy with the progress I'm making with the game and can't wait to crack on with the last three characters sprites.