Hey heeey!
Whew! I've been meaning to sit down and write a devlog for quite a while, but I never quite took the time to do it! Well, no more! This is overdue! Sorry about that!
I want to update you all on what I'm doing, what's coming (very soon), and how things are going. And, although usually I reserve previews for the previews tier, I decided to add a little extra something! The screenshots you see above are the ones that we're gonna get to see in the preview of the crossover of A Demon Within Shelter for this chapter. These screenshots wouldn't exist in the first place if the progress of the chapter wasn't going well, so... ;)
As you can see, Alon is going to go through quite a few shenanigans and encounters in this one. I think it'll really highlight some key differences between the Demons Within world and the Shelter world, and those are always super fun to explore! Resnick already went through some of that on his side in the last Shelter chapter, so now it's Alon's turn. ;)
I'm happy with the overall progress of the crossover chapter. I managed to get it done in a somewhat speedy manner! Considering it has a whopping 10k words, which is the length of a usual DW update in itself. We'll get to see Alon in some familiar places, including the tavern that we have just seen in the main DW content, and also meet some familiar people. I'm very happy to be able to use the crossover to give some minor characters that Blain and I worked on some time to shine as well! I thought we'd get to see more of the Weary Soldier bartender and Helen in last update's content, but in the end, there was no space for them. At least we get to see a bit more of them now!
Okay, okay. The progress, though. The writing is done, checked, and approved (by Raus, too!). We needed a few art assets for this update, some of them involving Alon and some involving Barry (the otter) and even Kormack. I'll gather everything that is new and post it up soon as well as a preview! Those are also all done! All that's left now is for me to finish coding up the assets, but as I say in every regular DW update, the longer the update is, the more work I have turning it all into visuals, so... oof, it's a bunch of work! I'll finish it though, polish it up, and we'll be seeing it soon!
I'm aiming for a possible beta release of it next week. I'll let you guys know, of course, the exact date when I feel a bit more confident, but it's gonna be very soon!
As usual as well, I'll release the crossover update as Update 14.5 to Patreon first. It'll come with the new crossover chapter and a bunch of bug fixes I've gotten over time from Update 14, but no new main Demons Within content just yet! That will come on Update 15, which I'll go back to working on as soon as this is released!
Alright, I think this is it for this one!
Cheers!