Conway- Update 5 sneak peek

Middle of the month, so let's keep you all updated about what's happening with Update #5. It's a bit hard to talk about it definitively yet, but it could be the most exciting update yet!
It perhaps won't have the juiciness of Update 4, but some exciting things are happening.

Naturally we finally got the proper art for the Nomax scene in there, so it might be worth to even go and replay that scene with the new art.

We also got the Arthur Character Artwork implemented and all the finished characters have been converted to a layered image. I've talked about it in another post before, but up until now most character Artwork was just a full picture that I called up. Which was fine for my dummy brain in the beginning, where things just needed to be simple, but by now things were crumbling so the switch was overdue.
This will make it much easier in the future to implement additional bits and pieces for characters. New expressions when needed, potential alternative poses etc. So while it's an invisible change behind the scenes it'll make things so much easier in the long run and will provide more varied character artworks.

In fact some of that will already show the fruits, as Arthur (and perhaps other characters too, depending on the timeline) will have have some wonderful little additions which should help bring the look of the regular text scenes up a level!

Then, what else?
Well how about some cool UI?! I mean look at the attached picture, tell me that isn't awesome looking?
The whole UI will be getting an overhaul, to which degree and to which finish again is a bit up the air still, depending on how the timeline works out this month, but the screenshot is how the main menu of the game looks right now.

Then of course we also got the usual swath of little tweaks and fixes and whatnot to just sort out some of the rough edges. Potentially more sound effects too if I find the time for it, but that's also something that just depends on the timeline of the month.

Now you may ask, if what I'm showing here and talking about is nothing but Art and UI...what about the story?
Well hoh-boy, that is where the excitement comes in! I don't really want to talk about it in too specific detail yet, but this might very well not be a 1-person project anymore.
The reason I don't want to talk about it too much just yet is that of course things are not finished and I just don't fully know what shape it will take at the end of the month when I have to upload the new version. In an ideal world we'd have proper introductions, cool new story and all that good stuff, but there is still the chance that things don't work out as hoped and it'll be an update without new story. That would be the absolute worst case, which i think is pretty unlikely, but as they say, underpromise and overdeliver. So just take it as what it is for now, something that potentially is really exciting but simply isn't in the game, and until it is I don't want to promise much.

I think that is all for now, thank you very very much especially to all the new folks this month! It really has been a very successful month so far and hopefully we can keep this momentum up. :)