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Another devlog! This time, not TOO long after the last one. I think it helps for me not to have so much to say. Then these won't be so incredibly long...
Update 15's writing "phase" is done, reviewed and ready to go. The update is sitting at just below 16k words, which is just about the size of one and a half update... But this time, it was inevitable. If I hadn't cut Update 14 where I did, this thing would be some kind of 25k words monster that would take months to make! It's already big enough as it is, but it's an important one! It had to be!
Size aside, the other big thing about it is that, in the end... Well, I think I mentioned it in the last devlog. This update will be covered almost entirely by CGs! We have some very special ones and a gimmick we're trying out in this one. Because of that, well... Blain has been working hard on them, but they're still not entirely ready. It's holding me back a little bit, but I'm confident it'll be worth it!
Nevertheless, I'll probably never do a CG with the scope of the entire update in mind again. It's just too much for a single-person developer to do! Coordinating with Blain to make it all happen smoothly has been a lot, and it's so much work for just a single artist as well. I hope that this update will be worth all the extra work that is going into it, but I'll strive to make things simpler and more streamlined in the future. As I have always tried to do in the past!
It's kind of... a CG within a CG. And because of that, half of it I can't show as previews, as it would be major spoilers. The other half, I will show as much as I can! Unfortunately we have the spoilery part mostly done first and not the other one, so previews are taking a bit longer. They'll come, though! And, as always, I'll show the drafts and making of of the parts that were too spoilery after the update is out, too. :)
Well, at least, it'll probably make the update just about as cool as it can be! ;)
Though we are heading towards what I like to call the "finale" of act 1 of the story and big things are on the horizon, as you will see at the ending of this update, the next ones should be a bit simpler to make. I'm still hoping to speed things up while still sprinkling some work on the "side game" thing on the side between updates. I'm not doing a crossover chapter for a while (It's Shelter's turn now!), so I'll focus entirely on the updates! This is all future talk, though. Right now, my single-minded focus is Update 15!
This devlog is mainly here just to keep you all updated and say: things are going! I still do have some other things cooking on the side as well, but as I said, I'm focusing mainly on finishing Update 15 first and Blain is hella busy with it too. After we're done with it, we'll look at some exciting things like merch and probably another round of cool sponsor costumes (I haven't forgotten that!) if people want that. We got some really really cool ones last time!
Alright, I won't make this TOO long! This is it for now! I'll keep you all updated as much as I can!
Cheers!