I now have finished all the sprites for demo btw! Also I have edited Walter sprite and Rick sprite, the latter one getting some redrawn parts altogether. I'm trying to hold myself from editing them any further though because otherwise I'll NEVER be done!
Although I still have a long way to go, I like to look back at my very first concept of the game screen vs what it's like right now.
Anyway, I hope that by the end of the year I could have at least some sort of small demo out. Not the full one I planned, but maybe day 1 or at least a part of it.
Oh, and as for nanowrimo: I'll be making a better post about it before November! My plan is to write Taros Trials, a story taking place in Agane and featuring some wacky gay mages.