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Sprite Showcase! 🕯️✨

Hello, everyone!Today we bring you the lantern version of Elise's walking sprite in all of its 8 direction glory!Of course, it was whipped up by our pixel artist Ichigo! Soon we'll have more of her work to share with all of you!Stay tuned! 💖

Map Artwork Showcase #3 🦉

Hello, everyone! 🌙This time we bring you the night version of the front of Elise's home.Achieving a night time effect is surprisingly more difficult than it seems. This version comes with no lighting effects from within the home - those will be added later!For now, we leave you with a purely moonlit scene! What do you think? 🕯️

Parallax Effect Workshop with Hizagui! 🕹️✨

Hello, everyone!✨This month’s workshop is hosted by our programmer Hizagui who’s going to walk you through the parallax effect!1. What is parallax?Parallax is a method of adding a 3D look and feel to a 2D scene. Simply put, parallaxtakes into account the way we humans perceive objects at a distance. Objects far awayare perceived to move slower than objects closer to us.For example, when you see a plane in the sky it looks rather slow but it is actually moving at incredible speeds. In 2D we can apply the same effect by having a number of l...

Character Pose Previews! ✨

Hello, everyone!Today we bring you the previews for Lebkuchen's, Rozenmarine's and Freya's portrait poses.Of course, there'll be a ton more expressions that go with each pose, and the number of poses and expressions will grow as the development goes on!Thank you all so much for your continuous support! 💖

Map Artwork Workshop with Hika! 🌲🌱🌳

Hi, it’s Hika again!! ✨I’m AstralShift’s background artist and I will be hosting this month’s workshop! Hope you enjoy it and if you have any questions you can always @hika on discord’s Parlor server! ^o^On this workshop I will be taking you through the step by step process of making the most recent map I’ve worked on and explain my thread of thought throughout.In this case, this map is a little bit different from the maps we are used to. This time, we decided to go for a “side-scroller” map to make it to look more like an int...

OST Showcase - Chores 🌲

Hello, everyone!Today we bring you a short preview of one of the game's OST tracks composed by SkyLeo.We hope you enjoy it! ✨

Map Artwork Showcase #2 🌼

Hello, everyone! ✨Today we bring you a work in progress version of one of the maps Hika's been working on.Later on this month we'll be delving into the details and plans we have for it in June's worshop, so stay tuned to find out more! Thank you all so much for your support! 💖

Pocket Mirror Official Merchandise Preview! ✨

Hello, everyone!As the launch of the official AstralShift store draws closer, we've decided to share with you a preview of a enamel pin set featuring Goldia and Enjel from Pocket Mirror!Both designs were whipped up by Jes! Enjel will be plated in gold and Goldia is taking the rose gold version!Hopefully, we'll be updating you all with news about these pins and other merchandise soon! 💖

AstralShift's Official Website!

Hello, everyone! ✨We're proud to announce that AstralShift's Official Website is finally live!🌟 Click here to check it out. 🌟As you can see, it's still under construction, but hopefully we'll be able to launch it soon, but until then stay tuned for all its features:🌟 Info on the team - our members and goals;🌟 Info on our projects - past and future;🌟 Built-in merch store;🌟 Gallery - extra visuals and material;🌟 Much, much more!Thank you all so much for your continuous support!

UI Menu Workshop with Kirarin! 🌟

Hello! Kirarin here! 🎃Aside from the character portraits and cutscene illustrations, I’m also in change of the design department which includes of course the user interface!Today I’ll be presenting you the whole visual development process of the UI elements for LGTS. More specifically, I'll be focusing in our pause menu, the textbox and mini-games/puzzle interfaces!1. Conceptualization and ContextBefore conceptualizing the whole user interface of Little Goody Two Shoes, the first thing I take into account is to make sure everything i...

UI Menu Showcase Workshop Announcement ✨

Hello, everyone! ✨Later this month we'll be posting the usual monthly worshop, this time focusing on some of the user interface menu's features - the thinking behind its development and resources!Until then, here's a preview of what the pause menu looks like with a few key components missing, which we'll get into later on in the post.Stay tuned! 💖

🌿: “This is all I have. I really didn’t steal anything, ma’am.”

Hello, everyone! ✨As you probably guessed, this is a followup post to our previous sneak peek into one of the mini-CGs that'll be featured in the game, only this time we reveal what's inside Rozenmarine's pockets!Of course, this one is also accompanied by a quote from the final script! 🖋️

🍇: “Show me what's in your pockets! Right now!"

Hello, everyone! ✨Today we bring you an example of one of the many mini-CGs that'll be featured in Little Goody Two Shoes along with a quote from the final script.These will be used throughout the game to better illustrate certain moments of the narrative, though we'll still be using the standard full illustrations which will be a lot more special! 💖

Jes' Process - Speed Paint Video 🍆🥕🍅

Hello, everyone!✨ This month we bring you a speed paint of Jes' latest work for Little Goody Two Shoes where you can see the creative process behind her illustrations. Can you guess who it is she's painting?A comment from Jes: 👋Hello! Jes here!!!You may remember me from the nifty arts n farts I provided for Pocket Mirror’s theater sequences! Well, I’m back at it again with Little Goody Two Shoes! 🍇🍇🍇When doing “lineless” art, you do not have to worry about how rough or messy your sketch is as long as you vaguely kn...

A lionhearted leader 🌲

Strong and reliable, Gustav isn't only Kieferberg village's head, but also Freya's father. A lumberjack by trade, it is his duty to keep Kieferberg at peace and on a prosperous path.

Asset Showcase #1

Hello, everyone! ✨Today we bring you a showcase of some of the assets Kirarin has been hand painting lately.Any ideas what these will be used for? 🤔

OST Showcase - Elise's Theme 🍇

A short preview of Elise's theme composed and arranged by yuzukimasu.Both Elise's and Rozenmarine's themes are sung by Chiisana who's been working on other LGTS tracks! ✨

OST Showcase - Rozenmarine's Theme 🌿

As a follow up to the OST Work in Progress post, here is the final version of the same excerpt from Rozenmarine's Theme! 🌿All character themes were done by yuzukimasu. Stay tuned for another preview of his work still to come this month! ⭐

A single dandelion 🌼

Beloved by all of Kieferberg's folks, Freya stands as Elise's rival in the fight to become the village's most trusted errand girl. Big-hearted and kind, she strives to lead a peaceful, blissful life in her cherished hometown alongside her family and friends.

Along came a spider! 🕷️

Known to be a bit of a glutton, Muffy is a scaredy-cat with a big apetite.Hello, everyone!As promised, we bring you the finished piece Kirarin worked on during the stream.

Livestream Update! 🌟

Hello, everyone!As we mentioned before, we’ll be streaming on this upcoming Saturday, February 23rd!It'll take place at 9:30PM UTC+0 on Twitch, so make sure to follow us on there and stay tuned! 🎃After running the poll, it's been decided KirameKirai will be streaming the coloring process of a portrait for a character who hasn't been revealed yet!We'll also be showcasing some of the OST and discussing a few more details about the development and the game's overall content, as well as answering your questions!To get a bet...

Livestream Poll! 📝

As we've announced earlier this week, we'll be hosting a stream on February 23rd!As Angelic and Beloved Pumpkins, it's up to you to decide what will be streamed on that day, so choose wisely! 💖The Character Portrait option includes the coloring process of the portrait of a character that's yet to be revealed, while the Map option includes the painting process of one of the game's maps!

Livestream Announcement! ✨

We'll finally be hosting our first Little Goody Two Shoes livestream soon!The stream will take place on the 23rd of February, both the platform on which we'll be streaming and the actual time are still to be announced so stay tuned!It'll be focused on artwork and, although it'll be available to all, there will be a few perks for our patrons:👉 Up to three lucky Comedian Pumpkin patrons, and above, will be able to make an art (sketch) request during the stream.👉 Our Angelic Pumpkin patrons, and above, will be able to vote on...

Along came a spider... 🕷️🕸️

Introducing AstralShift's Newsletter! 🎉

Hello!As you all know, our Beloved Pumpkin tier counts with a monthly handwritten letter as one of the perks. However, upon rethinking the current rewards we have established for that tier, we figured it'd be more interesting to make it a proper handwritten newsletter.The newsletter will include the following:👉 Updates on our progress from the past month.👉 Plans for the development progress for the following month.👉 A personalized 'thank you' message.👉 Sneak peeks on Patreon content for the following month, i.e. workshop...

WORLD BUILDING – HOW WE DO IT

Hello! 🎃✨I’m EvilHairBrush, the writer for AstralShift, and today I’m going to lay out how I’m tackling the world building of Little Good Two Shoes. As you may suspect, nothing I’ll be explaining in this post will be innovative or unique by any means, it’s simply how I’ve been going on about it and my plans for the game!Contrary to Pocket Mirror, Little Goody Two Shoes will take place in a way more realistic setting – more specifically, in the village of Kieferberg – which means it needs to be a lot more fleshed out than th...

A furry companion. ❄️

Little Flocke is a cheerful, amicable goat who will be lending a hand with Elise's daily chores at Kieferberg village!

Christmas Special - Speed Paint with Hika and Kirarin!

Hello, everyone! As promised, here is the speedpaint for this year's Christmas special. Since it showcases the kind of artwork that'll be featured in LGTS, we figured sharing how this promotional artwork came to be would fit right into this month's tutorial! Although it's not much of a tutorial per se, we do hope you enjoy it nonetheless! The software used in this video was Adobe Photoshop, which was used to paint both Elise and the background, and Adobe AfterEffects to tackle the lighting, animation and effects. The piece itsel...

🎄 Merry Christmas! 🎄

We at AstralShift wish you all a Merry Christmas and would like to thank you for your support and dedication thus far. It's thanks to you we can keep on working hard! 🌟This year's Christmas special illustration was whipped up by KirameKirai and O_Hikaku.We'll be posting a speed paint of this piece soon as a bonus, so stay tuned! 💖

Character sprite reveal! 🥨

Here's the reveal of Lebkuchen's in-game walking sprite animation. You can check out Elise's and Rozenmarine's over on Twitter! All of the sprites are done by Ichigo, our pixel artist! 💖