Hi there, thanks for playing i'll try and answer all of your questions, so regarding updates i do dev logs every sunday on my patreon and also subscribestar, those are generally just updates for stuff ive been working on, the general direction, also stuff like polls (i've started polling BDSM scenarios on there for things people want included) as for game updates that's a little more complicated, there is a planned update which will be released soon but that will be the same demo with a lot of QoL updated and bug fixes, and just generally polished a bit more, there will probably be a longer more fleshed out Demo for the steam release, mostly because it takes so damn long to get approved on steam that i will have worked on a lot more of the game before then, development is going a lot faster though now and while i cant promise a complete game overnight i can say that you wont be waiting forever
On that same note the dificulty has been updated so you can have easy or hard mode and it effects the scaling of the escape games, this is optional but a lot of people were asking for easier or harder escape scenario's, there's also been some more optimizations in the escape system
The bad endings are something i will do a LOT more of, i hate it when it just says game over in a video game so i figured that for every single game over in Escape from Blackwood manor i could have a cutscene play out and have all of them be different, some of the bad endings may turn into "Bad Routes" but no spoilers, same with the Beatrice encounter seems everyone wants to stick it to her and i cant spoil but there will be a few different ways that will play out
Still working on Discord, been a bit preoccupied working on the next section of the game at the moment so haven't had time, thanks for messaging always welcoming feedback