Nov Dev Log

Hi everyone!

The end of the year is looming, and wow, it’s been a whirlwind (heck, typhoon) over here. Sorry this Dev Log is coming out a week late, but we've had so much exciting progress!

Merry Crisis

• The VN demo is officially out, and publishing to Steam has been a wild ride—over 400 wishlists in just 9 days, and less than 48 hours since the demo dropped. Absolutely surreal. Thank you all so much for the love and support! Do check it out if you haven't already, share it, wishlist, and leave a review! My inbox is also open for anyone who wants to rave (or rant) at me about it :)

• Merry Crisis will be in Choose Wisely Festival (Dec 8-15)! The Merry Crisis VN demo was picked up by a few content creators who will be releasing streams over the course of the week or so.

  

  • I'm also super proud to mention that a legendary Singaporean stand-up comedian (@NebulousNiang on instagram) and self-proclaimed SG's biggest lesbian played through the demo for 1 hour 20 minutes with her daughter. You can already check out some of the shorter reels on Monsoon Games's instagram under 'Coverage'. She'll be releasing the full Let's Play soon (I'll also post an edited 25min version for those of us with shorter attention spans). It’s adorable, hilarious, and y'all should absolutely check out her stand-up shows if you ever find yourself in Singapore.

• Reflections... As a writer (and coder now I guess) it feels absolutely magical and surreal to see the demo come to live as something playable with art and music!

  • Big thanks to my incredible team, artists Crows, Maria, Silvia, Naz, Fie and musicians/composers including Nikka, and many more (Kathaeris for UX/UI design, Emily for coding support, Exyl for the trailer, Pip Osterous and YT the SmirkMerc for beta-testing, feedback, and just keeping me sane in general).

    

  • Finally and super importantly, a huge warm hug to all of you who shared my (copious amount of) posts, hyped the game up, played it, and left a wishlist/message. It means so much, and y'all made this dream tangible!

• (Aside: I'm so sorry for the spam these past few days haha. I promise that things will go back to normal programming soon.)

• Text-based version update: Yes, it’s still coming! The Steam demo and the unexpected hype delayed things a bit (so sorry about that)

  • Next chapter of the text-based version will be out on Sat (13 Dec) for Ko-fi and Patreon supporters.

  • The public version will probably go out 27 Dec :)

CT:OS

• Supporter snippets: Earlier in November, I released small Rayyan and G snippets for Ko-fi/Patreon supporters, so you can check it out if you haven't already and/or are missing the CT:OS universe!

• Looking ahead: I had intended to return to CT:OS this December, but I'll probably keep it light. Maybe just some Christmas-themed snippets or sneak peeks, since holidays are coming up and there'll still be marketing-related tasks for Merry Crisis.

Catch you guys in the Dec Dev Log!