Posted March 01, 2024 by Cats on a Lilypad Studios
Can you believe we're into the 3rd month of the new year already?
I wanted to touch base with a little update of what's been happening with the game as of late, if you're only following the game here on itch.io I would highly recommend following our twitter, joining our discord or signing up to our Patreon Free-Cap (a monthly recap of all our games, posts and events.)
As is fairly obvious about the game, we are delayed but we are also still working on it every moment of the day, while we don't have a release date, we do have a bunch of other stuff.
In January we took part in the Storytellers Festival hosted by Two and a Half Studios and we had a few announcements! Our biggest announcement to come out of Storytellers is that we have a publisher for The Inn Between!
This is incredibly exciting for us and will be of a huge benefit to the game.
Nothings changed in terms of development team or ownership but the added support of a publisher behind us gives us access to invaluable support in marketing and other financial avenues.
This will help launch a better quality game, and help it release this year.
Please join us in welcoming TWO AND A HALF STUDIOS as the publisher for The Inn Between!
And if you know anything about our two studios you'll know how close we've always been, this might not come as much of a surprise to some of you!
Our second big announcement is that our common route is finally finished! Much of our delay has happened due to the fact that I simply hated what I'd written and couldn't (and more importantly wouldn't) release what I had. While delays are disappointing and frustrating I promise, this has been for the best.
The original common route was roughly 40k long, it has now more than doubled at just shy of 100k long, and has a MUCH better balance of characters, story and information.
I make games because I love them and I did not love the original state of the game, I do now, and I hope you'll all agree that the wait has been worth it.
With our common route being done I am mid way through Chapter 8 of 9 on the beta programming! We're working hard on the editing, updating and all those things that go into making a game function.
If you missed the funding and your chance to get beta access we offer an alternative way to access all our game betas (as well as all updates, previews and exclusives) on our Patreon!
The full common route will be released soon and I'm so excited finally reveal more of my world to beta supporters.
This isn't really an announcement but more of an event that I did.
During Storytellers Festival in January I made rare use of my Youtube channel CocoLouCovers to play some of the games featured made by Two and a Half Studios as well as myself and one of them was The Inn Between!
It's a lengthy stream but if you're interested in seeing some of that new content of the common route I played the Beta! Listen to me babble to chat about my game for 5 hours...
This last note is to say that if you happen to be an Australian, more specifically Tasmanian come check our TasPop South on the 9/10th of March!
I'll have a booth there with merch, and my games happen to be my ADHD special interest! Ask me about them!
Come chat about our games, other games, send me cat photos (please, I beg, I love cats)
The Inn Between channel has been getting quite a few no context screenshots while I code the chapter 7-9 beta!
If you enjoy our games and this update make you wanna know more, please consider subscribing to us. Patreon is the studios main source of income and enables us to make more content and keep the lights on!
Patreon offers exclusive updates, behind the scenes, assets, artworks, my heart and soul.
We have multiple tiers from our free re-cap (Free-Cap) all the way up to our $100 tier which gets a custom story about our characters!
We've recently unlocked a new illustration reward!
We are incredibly grateful to all our supporters, we can only make these games because of you.
The Free-Cap is the best way to keep updated with the studio and hear all our announcements and previews at the end of every month!
While our supporter update is more in-depth and detailed our Free-Cap offered a fantastic way for us to share what info we can!
This is what we've posted today:https://www.patreon.com/posts/free-cap-2024-99504907
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