January Progress Report

Is it just me or is January just flying by?  We're half way through the month already in the blink of an eye but that means it's a good time for a progress report.  

I'll be sharing a combination of images and screenshots with you all today and discussing a lot of what I've done.  For the most part Chapter 6 is ready to be completed.  Theres still a few sprites I need (like levers for the level puzzle.) and the remaining maps aren't lit yet but you can walk the entire base and everything is functional.  So I'm hoping to have it more or less complete before the end of the weekend.  And once that's done I'll be moving on to the updates I mentioned in the prior devlog.  Just for a little over view of when the next update is planned to release, I remember the original Valentine's update was the first real release of 2024 that included voice acting and the general transition to the games current style.  So I think I'll plan for that to be the next proper update again.  That should give me ample time to clean up the remaining errors with the current build and insert some of the new content and reworked systems.  But enough on that, let's see what I've been working on.

And that's the gist of it all.  Pretty much over a dozen new arts between the CG's and enemies.  I'd say Chapter 6 is nearly 80% complete now.  It's still missing a lot of voice acting, but I placed commissions to take care of Scarecrow and Hati's remaining dialogues for the rest of the game.  There's also a new rendition of the games main theme that I posted on my patreon, just a simple piano only version that I ordered. It'll make sense when we talk about the next update I'm sure.  It is POSSIBLE that more voice work is delivered in time to be added into the February update but again that all depends on when I get files and if I have the time to properly edit them all and chop them up.  So don't get your hopes up too high.  Things are moving along at a steady pace.  Chapter 7 should begin development before the month ends..  But for now it's back to the grind with me.