Hello all, hope this finds you well. I'm officially back from my post release break feeling nice and refreshed.
Now I have a few things I'm trying to get to today, but maintain some brevity so I'll try to be as quick as possible.
First, just a general thank you for all things release related. it would would take me paragraphs to get to everything, and I'm trying not to waste anybody's time. So just a blanket thank you so much for everything. Still have some fixes and other general stuff to get to with it, but I'm glad to have it in the rearview mirror. Now to the future.
Now the STWA roadmap for the rest of 2026 is pretty simple. Two, maybe three major goals, getting Round 9 out, and finally getting Author Definitive in wide release, and finally if time permits we'll see if Book 2 of Unbroken can go into early access on Steam, though that may take longer so we'll call it a stretch goal.
So Author news, promised I'd say something, but it was important for me to get Round 8 out first. Anyway Author has been sitting at about 95 percent done since mid 2024, mostly just waiting on some stuff I commissioned for it, and then it needs some testing. So Author release is pretty easy. I expect the Steam Page should be up in the next week or so, a few weeks after that both here and on Steam a demo, containing the first two chapters will be available for you to play. So you can get a bit of taste of that. Then it's just waiting for it to collect wishlists. So this is the easiest part for me really. Occasionally I might do some art or other things to build a bit of "hype" but Author is mostly passive work at this time.
Otherwise, Round 9 will be the focus here. Not a ton exciting to discuss today, since it was the first day of the cycle. This week will mostly consist of the boring pre-work. Updating any programs I need, backing things up and organizing them. Looking at the scene outlines for the upcoming update and seeing what assets I need, and looking for them if I don't have them, or seeing if I can reasonably create one of my own. Also just general asset browsing, see if there's any new cute outfits or hairstyles or just something I might use someday. Getting the "workspace" prepared so to speak. Then Monday next week we'll be ready to start the "real" work.
Quick housekeeping notes, starting next week we'll be getting back into our usual Patreon flow around here. Mondays will be usual White Belt updates, I'm thinking Friday or Sat for Blue Belt BTS updates. Not completely decided on which is more convenient yet, I'll decide by next Monday. Also the monthly art streams for Blue and above will be starting up again. Doing some changes, but getting back into schedule for our special renders for Purple Belts and above, but I'll make a separate post for that to keep this post a little shorter.
Final note before I let you folks enjoy your day. We'll have our usual post release QnA stream thing on my Discord, Sunday March 8th at 1pm Pacific, 4pm Eastern. It's open to all, we'll hang, chat, I'll probably make some art and we can just do whatever for a bit. Maybe I'll see you there.
Okay I'm done, Thank you as always for the support and I hope you have a lovely and safe rest of your week.
Sláinte.