Progress Checkup! (Sept. 2023)

Hello! You may have heard (Or not heard, since I kinda forgot to keep the devlog over here up to date, whoops!) that the SAGE 2023 demo of Scratchin' Melodii had to be delayed, as something came up in which I had to reevaluate my life priorities for a bit. I can't give any solid dates on when I'll be postponing the release of this demo to at the moment, but for now I'll say that you can probably expect it before the end of this year.  I'm aiming for this demo to be the last demo I release before I finish the full game, BUT keep in mind, that does NOT at all mean that the full game will be done soon. There's still a lot of work to do!! And in case I haven't made it clear enough before, I do plan for Scratchin' Melodii to be a full game that you purchase with money when I complete it. The reason I've been releasing small free demos is just to gather feedback and testing. This is my first game, after all!

Anyways, here's the progress checkup.

These will be featured or partially featured in the next demo:

• Overhaul of Cream Cheese Icing  (Rival Battle) (Done!)  A preview of it can be seen here
• Supastar Tennis (Rival Battle) (Done!) A preview of it can be seen here
• Sidechain Fever (Rival Battle) (Done!)  A preview of it can be seen here
• Gameplay UI & Beat Detection Overhaul (Halfway done!)
  
• Story Mode Overhaul (Under construction...)
• Automatic Button Layout Option (Done!) 

I'm also working on a lot of other stuff that I'll be saving for the full game. You may have noticed that batches of songs/levels are separated into "Acts". Keep in mind, this is only a way of sorting the songs based on when and where they appear in story mode, the next demo will not include the entirety of Act 2, only two songs from it. I hope you'll look forward to it! :)

-LJ