Jan 2026 Dev Log

Hey everyone! Hope 2026 is off to a great start for you :D

I started the year full of New Year Energy, and am very happy to report that I did manage to meet all the goals I had for the month :)

CT:OS

• In tandem with the finale of the Australian Open, I finished the update for Chapter 7 🎾 (i.e. the National Doubles Championship), with the 75k word early-release going live on 1 Feb. The public release will go out on 14 Feb, Valentine's Day. Here's the link to that post!

• I also finally got round to compiling an updated list of passwords for the game here. 

• I hope to work a little bit more on bug-fixing as well as on a short Valentine's Day bonus snippet 💕(hopefully ready by Valentine's, otherwise we'll see) as voted for by one of the winners of the poll raffle! (shout-out to Kaliyah for being such a great sport for this :D)

Merry Crisis

• Started on a bit of the Merry Crisis Visual Novel extended demo in Jan. This touches on more of Qiu's backstory and also includes scenes like Shay's Christmas performance 🎸and the extended family Christmas dinner.

  • Crows and Maria have made so much progress on new backgrounds and character designs for the extended demo! Here are some sneak peeks of the amazing things they've got cooking 👀

  
  

• Merry Crisis was featured in more articles and streams in Jan, which is always exciting! I also showcased the game at a local Singaporean Playtest Party and got a bunch of people playing it in-person :)

• It'll be full-steam-ahead for the extended demo development over the next few weeks, and have a first draft ready by End-Feb (in time for the Women's Day festival / Dames 4 Games showcase that Merry Crisis will be part of in Mar!)

• I also need to get an exclusive trailer ready for the above in a weeks' time, so fingers crossed I'm able to get that done as well 🙈