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Threads of You: Beyond the Bay
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux

Hello everyone! As the title suggests we have some updates for you all, for those that have been following our socials you have probably seen the updates already and know that we're actively working on the project (thank you all so much for your support it means the world)

For those that are just stopping by here and want to know the state of the game, here's the rundown!

Our team has been working hard on doing a complete rework of our current demo, this includes:

NEW BACKGROUNDS!

As you may have guessed we're doing a complete visual overhaul! We're hoping that it will reflect our vision for the characters, setting and story better and that it will give our players a more comfy experience ♡٩>ᴗ<)و This right here is the new visual for the Inn where you (the player) will be staying, we hope you'll find your stay comfortable (say hi to Dante for us).

NEW CGS!

As you'd expect with the new backgrounds come new CGs!

While those are still being worked on at the moment (as much as we'd love to show you all the previews of all our boys), the previews for the rest are reserved for the lovely folks over at our Patreon ✧˖° (don't worry you'll see them also soon enough)

NEW SPRITES!

Didn't think all of that would be remade without a new set of sprites did you?

All of our cast members are getting new sprites! We're hoping they'll reflect our cast members better and also be easier on the eyes and fit the art direction better

We're hoping to achieve a softer more comforting summer atmosphere so do tell us if we've managed to achieve it so far!

With that we would like to thank our lovely new and old artists contributing to everything you have seen so far, we have a lot of people on the team and they're all doing absolutely amazing work so when the credits get released we hope you'll show them support

NEW DEMO SCRIPT!

We're rewriting and adding new parts to the demo, not to worry for we have a new writing team that's been working with us for months now to understand and bring the boys to life (and they've been doing a fantastic job they've gone through so much, show them as much support as you can if you end up liking what we have in store)

At the moment we have nothing we can give as a public preview in this field but you'll get to read it soon anyway if all goes as scheduled ⊹ ࣪ ˖


UI UPDATES

For those that struggled with the room customization or the mc customization screens and maybe couldn't figure out what to do there, don't worry you're not alone and we've listened to all the concerns
In the new demo things will have a more clear and easier to navigate layout, thank you to everyone who has given us feedback~ 

NEW MUSIC!

We have new members in our audio department that will be working on a new OST! 


Now with all of this you may be worried that the demo some of you have possibly grown attached to will be lost to time, while yes we won't be reusing any of our old assets, we will be preserving the old backgrounds and OST on our YouTube channel (at the time of writing). We plan to make really simple sort of videos to just vibe to with the themes of each cast member, hopefully that'll help preserve a part of the past and hopefully you all will find it fun
Currently we have Andrews theme up! The others will be uploaded without a specific schedule down the line

Our youtube also has two christmas covers from two of our lovely VAs just saying just saying

CHARACTER VA RECASTING

Some of our love interests will have different VAs from their current demo counterparts, we appreciate the work the prior VAs did and we thank them for their time with us, we hope you all will welcome the new ones once we announce them with the character reintroductions for the new demo on our socials. Of course we also hope you will continue supporting the voice actors that will continue to voice some of our boys in the new demo and full game!

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Going back to the background and UI updates currently we have a test build for the games new room customization out for our backers and Patreon supporters! So if you would like to get your hands on that early you know where to go~

As for our Ko-fi backers, rewards have been sent out! We would like to thank them with all our heart for their support of the game and we hope they enjoy what we've sent out

Another thank you to the new members of our current management team that have been doing hard work for our socials, discord server and everything else (document making agony, art direction, scheduling, general management yknow the works) You'll get to meet them in the new demo credits but this would've all been impossible without them (and once again everyone else in our current team)

There are many new things to come, we hope you'll enjoy the atmosphere and story (and cute guys)

Thank you for reading this short update, and thank you for stopping by ♡ it means a lot to us

If you would like to follow development updates (and see cute art of the boys and maybe some of our other projects) as they happen and as soon as possible follow us over on our Twitter/X where our team is active most of the time of course checking out our other socials doesn't hurt either you can find those on linktree

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