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Did you decide on the current design quickly? Or were there other designs that stayed in the run for a while? Are there any you still think about?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nFor outfits we settled quite quickly on the newly designed ones but it took a tiny bit of convincing haha; I wasn\u2019t originally asked to make drastic alterations to their outfits but I presented them anyway because I felt rather strongly about it. Afterwards we settled on it relatively quickly. For the hairstyles and Yu\u2019s face it was a different story since we had to bounce around a bit between some options. Looking back on the sketches, I think for Kay we ended up going for the right hairstyle\u2014it has similar energy to Kay\u2019s original look while bringing along a new feel (though we cut back the length of the sides to bring more similarity\/technical reasons). For Yu, there was actually another hairstyle I felt a little more attached to, but I understand why it wasn\u2019t picked. It was still quite similar to Yu\u2019s original hair, though it was a little messier and spunkier and still had a ponytail; but it was missing the metal ring and I think that ended up being a dealbreaker for that option.<\/p>\n\n\n
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Are there elements in the gender swapped designs you wish were there originally?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nI think overall I\u2019m still happy with the four designs independently! While there are things that I would change if I were to design Yu and Kay from scratch today, I think the only alterations I would \u201ccarry over\u201d from the swapped designs to the original designs are very small things, such as removing a metal piece here or there. The most noticeable 1:1 change I would probably carry to the original (which is a conscious decision I made when designing the swapped version) is probably just changing Kay\u2019s left glove from a bandage wrap to a normal glove\u2014not that I felt the bandage wrap was a bad look, but it was a really minor detail I sometimes forgot about until later haha.<\/p>\n\n\n
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Anything you\u2019d like to tell us?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nWhen I was asked about working on this particular update, I was super happy to hear about it\u2014and I was even happier to see the amount of people it reached and connected with. In addition I\u2019m also very happy and thankful that people are still finding joy in Haven today and that we\u2019re able to share some of the behind the scenes with people! I don\u2019t know how much I can talk about publicly but Haven\u2019s creation was very expansive and very exciting\u2014there\u2019s a goldmine of things that the team and myself came up with that didn\u2019t make the final game but still give me so much joy to look at. So I just want to say thank you to everyone who has played Haven, everyone it\u2019s reached, and the community that is still excited about it to this day! I hope we can continue to share things about it in the future!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Koyorin is the character designer who created our favorite couple for Haven. In 2022, when we decided to bring you the couples update, we reached out to them to create the new versions of Yu and Kay. They were happy to pick up their pencil again and create these new yet familiar designs of our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10000090,"featured_media":4938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-haven"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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