DEVLOG 01

HELLO!!

There's so much to say, so much to do.

WHAT'S THE HAPPS?

You probably noticed that almost everything we've shown so far has been plans.

Until recently, there wasn't really much to show BESIDES plans.

But that's changed!

IT'S PLAYABLE

The first area is PLAYABLE from end to end!!

It's short (~15 min), and not yet at final levels of polish, but I hope that news excites you as much as it does me!

But words mean nothing, so here's a short gif of a snippet from the first area.

NOTE: The sprite is still an early draft, and all assets are subject to change.

When I first made this area, it was supposed to be an empty wasteland you walk through for a few minutes.

But when I actually started making it I realized... that was really boring.

So I added some puzzles, secrets, interactions, what have you...

The next (and demo's final) area's layout and mechanics are actively being worked on.

Nothing much on that to show yet.

CUTSCENES

We spent a good long while trying to find someone who would animate neat, smooth cutscenes...

But nobody animates an entire demo for free, which is fair enough.

So we've decided to make the storyboards the style; held drawings, rough sketches, etc...

And I think that was a good choice based on what the game was becoming, anyway.

They'll be made by none other than our talented artist, Albatross!

SCOPE AND DATES

The demo is aiming to be around an hour, give or take ~10 minutes.

Different than our 70-80 estimate in February, but it's much better for the pacing.

Now, onto the topic of release dates...

Don't expect one early. Or soon.

When we're getting close, we'll announce a rough window as to when we expect a release.

And only when it's practically complete will we announce a release date.

THOUGHTS

A while back I wrote a post saying that the spark was shining and asked everyone to be patient.

I meant it, but looking back now it's kind of obvious what that was, really...

A post with nothing in it, trying to seem like something.

I don't think I knew that then.

So I'm going to stop describing this game and just show it.

That's what this is going to be.

Thank you.

Take care of yourself.