Dev Update #73

1. Welcome new members!

2. E4 Survey

3. E4 Bugs

4. My month & E5

5. Coming up on Patreon

6. Thanks!

1) Welcome new members!

Hello and welcome to everyone who's recently joined my Patreon! The growth in our community after each episode is always so amazing and fuels me with incredible motivation. The Elmwood community is absolutely wonderful and I'm so lucky to have such amazing people in our discord who are more than happy to discuss gameplay, tier-lists or even just help you get that replay scene that you're struggling with. Please make sure you're in the discord if you're not already - it's my second main channel of communication after Patreon and I occasionally post dev updates there instead. Join here

2) E4 Survey

Thank you to everyone who completed the E4 survey! We had 278 responses and the data is really useful to me. Happy with what's there although I did forget to include a couple of questions on whether you prefer the new main menu and font. I might have this as a poll on Patreon at some stage. But in terms of the E4 survey - I'm not going to go through every question in depth like I've done with other surveys, I'm instead going to do a more brief overview of some specific questions and what the results mean for Elmwood. Will most likely do this this week.

3) E4 Bugs

There are still a couple of things in E4 I need to fix & polish which I will be doing shortly. Truth be told - I had some very lazy days after E4's release and recently I've been looking at E5 stuff before fixing E4 bugs because planning E5's content and outfits has been way more fun. But I will be posting a finialised build of E4 in the next couple of weeks, likely also with slightly slimmer webm files instead of ogv for E1-3's animations. Once again thank you so much to everyone who's pointed out bugs and typos.

4) My month & E5

I've had a great few weeks since E4's release and I'm feeling very refreshed. I've been having a lot of fun this month planning E5 and designing outfits for all the girls. I still have a few outfits I need to do, a couple of new environments & side characters to prepare and then I'll be getting started on the E5 animations & writing.

I'm not going to give an estimate for E5's release until we are very close but weekly dev updates are back and I'll keep you updated with what I'm working on each week (without giving any major spoilers).

5) Coming up on Patreon:

• Weekly E5 development updates

• Brief survey review

• Polished E4 version

• Early E5 outfit previews

6) Thanks!

Thank you so much to all of my supporters. It's thanks to you that there's going to be an episode 5 and it's thanks to you that one day there's going to be an episode 21. Your support means the world to me and I couldn't do this without you. (Nor would I want to - you guys rock.) Cheers!

Hope you all have a great week!

WickedWare