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Development Report – April 2025 – CG and Sprites, UI, Café Cinematic Showcase Video, and Voiceover Updates

To start off this month’s devlog, we celebrate Leandre Thaïs‘s birthday with a fanart feature!
Art by RemyHobozo  
If you’d like to have your artwork featured, either message or @ us with your artwork on any of our social media accounts!
The character artists are in the final stretch of sprite creation, and have created an astonishing total of 400+ variants for the 13-character cast. Our goal with such an unusually high sprite count is to capture the nuance of every moment, and we can’t wait to share them with you in arc 1!
With the completion of sprites near (plus with the 3D café design complete and other areas well underway), the artists are switching gears to focus on their next task and fan-favorite in any visual novel:

CGs!
Artists across the 3D and 2D teams work together to merge the 3D world with the 2D sprites, creating a seamless and unique look for every CG.

Those of you signed up for the Newsletter, check you email for a high-res download of the game’s first fully completed CG featuring Maria and Lucienne!
Composer Marco Salamida has continued to master the live music, and is also working on the creation of additional sounds that will help bring the world of Unmasked Truths: Shattered Dreams to life. Stay tuned for more live music demos in the coming months!
Nica Monami of Capriccioso Studio has also made great progress on the UI and is nearly finished with fine-tuning the general overworld, options and menu interfaces, with debate UI design well underway!
The 3D team and programmer Cam are also happy to share their progress in the form of a cinematic showcase of Lucienne’s cafe, and an updated walkaround that takes us from the front garden entrance to the cafe!
In additional team news, our current social media manager Sasha Blore is moving on to an exciting new role at another company.

We wish her all the best and thank her for all the hard work she’s put in throughout the last several months!

In the coming months, the directors will be working with a new marketing team that will help us manage our socials and expand our reach, so look forward to upcoming events and more updates!  

Our goals for the next couple of months include solidifying the release date for arc 1 in q1 of 2026 as we plan out our 3, 6, and 9 month timelines.

We’ve been in development since 2021, and we have no doubt that the next year will speed by in the blink of an eye!
And last but not least….

Congrats to John Montoya, and all the amazing people of LemonToast Media for their webby award-winning work on The LEGO Group’s “Incoming Message from Pharrell Williams” video in the Short Form and Social + Corporate Responsibility category!

John and his team of editors have been speeding through mastering the voiceover work, faithfully putting the final polish on the voices that will breathe life into the colorful cast of characters.

It won’t be long before we’ll be able to test out and demo new character lines and conversations as the 3D world of Unmasked Truths: Shattered Dreams expands.
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See you again next month for another development update!
Unmasked Truths Team
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