Feb Recap & March(ish) Plans

We're part of Steam's NextFest, which starts today (in a few hours from this post I think)! Share the game around this week! :)

Thank you!

Just a quick note to say thanks to everyone for your support and patience on Julian's rewrite!

I was never happy with Julian's route. It always felt like it was missing something and seemed fairly out of place with the other routes, too. There were contradictions in Julian's character that just never made any sense. I struggled the entire time I was writing it (which I realize now was a warning sign I shouldn't have ignored. Lesson learned!)

With the changes made last month, I'm much happier! Julian now feel like he fits in the game, it makes his character much more interesting, and this character change with 'Ash' will carry over into Remembrance, too! 

I was even inspired during the rewrite to create two new endings, which is huge considering the writing struggles I had before.

I still acknowledge there's a lack of romance in Julian's route, which is just the reality of the story's nature. I will try to address this in his future side content!

February Recap:

• Julian's main route done! With two new endings and tons of modifications. (If you find any issues, no matter how minor, please report 'em!)
• Updated the demo for Steam's NextFest (which starts today!)
• All background art is done! (A couple pieces for Sebastian's apartment still need to be coded in game. There are still some stock images, those are going to stay.)
• Casper, Luciana, and Isabella all have sprites in-game now (though there positions are probably weird in other routes and lacking expressions, which will be resolved in polish.)
• Lots of new little features got implemented (or started to get implemented)! Break Time, censor settings, walkthroughs in-game, & meta gallery!
• Intro screen got changed to separate the warning and info icons.
• 1 new mini story up for Josh / Brandon.
• Some sprite art modifications were finished for Quinn, Sebastian, and Monika that will be implemented during polish.

March Release Plans:

• I'm currently writing a new What If for Sebastian's route.
• Sebastian's route polish will happen this month! (I am NOT expecting to add any endings to this route. Sebastian already has the most endings of all characters!) Hopefully this only takes a couple of weeks.
• More sprite art modifications are on the way, most of them for Remembrance! Clairvoyant+ members will be seeing these sneak-peeks as they are done!
• And whatever time is leftover at the end will be dedicated to more side content writing. I haven't picked out the next work yet, but don't worry. I've got a long list of options to choose from!

Releases Going Forward

As I've mentioned before, I'm planning to be less strict about once-a-month Content Updates between now and the official release, although I think I'll keep the recap & next posts like these to once a month.

I'm planning (in theory) to release each time a major 'thing' is finished, whether that be a new side content piece or a route polish being completed.

Why the change? While I'm focusing at least half my time on polish for awhile, there won't be a large quantity of content ready each month like the past.

Passwords will continue to change once a month.

We'll try this out for a month or two. If it's too weird/awkward/troublesome, I'll shift back to the monthly format.