girlpack 9

My yearly update........... I give you... some new racers!

Morrigan has received her full resprite, and new racers Panty and Tingle have been added!

It's not the full update that was intended for v9, but with how long it's taken, I figured it was worth updating what I have so it's not sitting on the back burner forever.

Currently, Juri has seen the most progress on her resprite. Several of her rotation frames are completed, and others just need refinement and polish. I've also created a base sprite for a Spider-Man resprite, as well as new bases for Venom and Black Cat, both of whom I would like to make some day as well.

So things are, more or less, moving along. I've been poking my nose into several different projects at once, so we will see what gets completed first. Nevertheless, enjoy the update!

Heyyyy everybody. Work has been slowing a little bit down for me, but I have a few characters and followers done and updated for the next major update and thought it would be worthwhile to release what I have now to tide everyone over.

This update features a full resprite for Aerith and Tifa, as well as two new racers, Kris and Ness!

In addition, two new followers have been added: Angel Spamton and HERO_SWORD!

The remaining characters for the full version 9 update are still on their way. Please be patient- drawing girls takes time!!

Hello! Not as big an update as usual content-wise, in fact, you may notice that girlpack has gotten smaller.

As of now, all Super Mario series content I've made has been moved to my newly released pack, the Super Mario Kart Collection. This is a big change, and one I wasn't sure I wanted to make before, but I felt inspired and wanted to commit to a fully Super Mario focused pack, and I think splitting that off from girlpack makes the most sense for a variety of reasons.

In addition, I've finally added Spider-Man, a character I've been saving for a rainy day. Alongside him is an adjustment to Clash, his prefcolor, a new color called Symbiote, and a new follower, Speech Bubble.

That's all as far as this update goes, and I hope to be able to make more in the future. Speaking of the future, now that Super Mario Kart Collection is released, I have big plans for the next major girlpack update. Here's a preview of things to come!

Version 7 comes early! Nothing new as far as characters go, however, lots of new followers, and some character stat adjustments!

Patch notes:

• Nine new followers have been added! Super Star, Baby Yoshi, Limit Gauge, Moogle, Balloon Mr. Saturn, Low-Poly Aerith, Cloud, Tifa, and Barret have all been added as new followers.
• Several characters have seen stat adjustments to better reflect how I'd like them to play. Aerith is now 4/3, Tifa is now 6/5, Lucas is now 3/4, and Kumatora is now 7/3.
• This doesn't have anything to do with the actual new in-game content, but all of the pack assets have been updated!

I have characters being worked on, however I've been spending a lot of my time doing followers instead, catching up on ideas I've had but haven't had the motivation to realize until now. The pack is reaching a size where I'm considering ways to split up its contents, though I'm unsure what the best way to go about it is. If the base game's follower/character limits increase, then I'll likely continue to opt to not split up any content. Enjoy the new followers!

Oops! Forgot to clean out some extra frames from Juri's death sprite. That's been fixed now.

Version 6 of girlpack is here! This one's pretty major, so be sure to read the patch notes below if you're interested.

Patch notes:

• Barret Wallace (2/9), Aeris the Spaniel (5/3), Gwenpool (3/2), and Tanooki Mario (5/2) join the race!
• In addition, Tanooki Mario is the first character that utilizes Lua scripting to be added to the pack. Fast-fall to transform into Statue Mario, and get the drop on opponents! Be careful, though, turning to stone raises your weight to 40, and drops your acceleration to 0! For those who don't wish to try out his alternative gameplay style, you can disable the transformation mechanic by typing statuemario 0 into the console, and re-enable it with statuemario 1. Tanooki Mario was coded by Jaituia and toastergrl, with sound effects made by Crappy Blue!
• Following up on the previous point, the .soc version of girlpack has been retired. While the .soc bug concern seems to have been overblown, with Tanooki Mario's addition there's no reason to maintain two different variants of the pack.
• Juri has received a face lift, and is now more in line with the other human racers in the pack. She should be the last character to see a resprite like this for the foreseeable future. Like Aerith and Tifa beforehand, she is also more in-line with the vanilla art style.
• Tifa's hair now also changes based on the selected color. In addition, Wine has been tweaked so that it includes the necessary colors for her hair. To most players who use Tifa with her default colors, there will be virtually no difference. However, there were concerns that it was a little difficult to see what color she had chosen at a glance in multiplayer races. Her hair now changes color as well as parts of her outfit, making it more immediately readable what color she's chosen.
• EricBound and Juri-chan have been added as followers!
• Minor touch-ups across various characters to ensure consistent visual polish.

Heavy duty update with a lot of administrative adjustments. No sneak peek for next time, I'm leaving what's next up to the wind. Behind the scenes this is kind of a shift for how girlpack is going to work for the foreseeable future. There's one or two odds and ends I'd like to tie up with Lua, but Tanooki Mario and his alternative gameplay style is the most ambitious/gameplay affecting thing I have in mind. I hope you all enjoy the update, Tanooki Mario, and girlpack!

Long awaited, highly anticipated, girlpack version 5 is here with 4 new racers, two racer revisions, and two new followers!

Patch notes:

• Cloud Strife (7/7), Birdo (3/7), Gameboy Wario (5/9), and Witch Kiriko (2/8) join the race! This is the biggest update since launch.
• Furthermore, Cloud and Wario's prefcolors, SOLDIER and Loud, have been added as well!
• Aerith and Tifa have both been redrawn from the ground up! Not that there was anything wrong with them before, but I wanted to give them a touch-up so visually they fit the vanilla art style a little better. If it weren't already obvious, Cloud was also drawn in the same style.
• Wega and the Eternal Star have been added as followers! To avoid things getting too annoying, Wega's scream is shortened significantly.

I'm still trying to measure exactly what all I want to do next. Not to say the pack is done, obviously, I have other ideas, but I'm trying to balance working on what I want impulsively with adding things I've set out to include ahead of time. Barret as well as Aerith the Spaniel (Aerith, but she's a Sonic character) I've locked in for the next update. With all that said, I hope you all enjoy the update! I'm gonna go take a nap.

Ramona Flowers, from Scott Pilgrim, and Dr. Orpheus, from Venture Bros., join girlpack!

Some specific patch notes-

• Ramona Flowers and Dr. Byron Orpheus join the race! Ramona's stats are 6/7, while Orpheus is 4/8.
• Non-Binary Pride has seen a minor adjustment. Not for any particular reason, just so the contrast is a little higher.Each color of the flag takes up about a fourth of the palette!
• Aerith and Tifa's death sprites have been redrawn. They're more in-line with the others now, having a full illustration rather than an edit.

With that, there's now 11 available racers. The next update may take a while, but that's because I'm planning for it to be much bigger than normal. Here's a small preview of what I currently have planned!

Hi again! Sorry for the hotfix, there were some problems that were only apparent when loading the .SOC compatible version. Everything should be just fine now.

To make up for lost time, I've added a new follower, Plush Aerith!

Girlpack 3.0 is here!

Morrigan, from Capcom's Darkstalkers, and Kumatora, from MOTHER 3, join the roster! This brings the total up to nine racers. Wow!

Furthermore, there's a few minor changes.

• Morrigan's prefcolor, Succubus, has been added. It's a nice teal to lavender color ramp, reminiscent of the original Darkstalkers artwork.
• Mario, Luigi, and M-Emblem (the colors) are no longer marked as "inaccessible". This, originally, was done so that these colors meant for these specific characters were only options as prefcolors for their respective characters. However, this caused desyncs online, so for the time being they have been made regular colors once again. I'll pretend they're exclusive still just because it's less text to edit on my end.
• All colors with spaces in their internal names have been changed to not use spaces. This is futureproofing so they can be used as prefcolors. On that note, Pride Flag's prefcolor has been changed to Trans Pride.
• Bi Pride has been reworked to feature a more natural color ramp. This is a hint for future racers!