It's been a long time coming, but the Advent Heroes demo has finally been updated! Yes, that means you can now sample the game prior to release with four distinct scenes to choose from:

• Estarke: Venture into the fortress of Remment Estarke in search of Watson, whose departure for the fortress may have placed him in an unintended predicament.
• Bunnyback: Locate the missing sacrificial subject Cera, who suspects that her fate may not be as it appears with relation to the appeasement of her region's sacred guardian.
• Depths of Fate: The elven king's son has gone missing over a matter of forbidden love, and the consequences have resulted in the placement of a curse upon the Order of Wukong. His last known whereabouts were in the underground caverns near the hidden village, which demands an urgent investigation.
• Devil: Separated from the rest of the destined heroes en route to their ultimate goal, Alan Larson finds himself facing up against his worst nightmare - a menacing devil machine with the ability to split itself into pieces to unleash a massive swarm attack.

Although I intended for the demo to be based around content which is currently being redeveloped as part of a jam project, that content is not quite ready yet (and there are also circumstances which prompted a much quicker availability of demo content that I will not be mentioning at this time). Nevertheless, I am releasing content which is known to be ready so that the demo can be out in the public forum quicker than I originally planned for. Rest assured that the originally planned content will be released upon completion, but as an addition to the demo that I have prepared in its place rather than being a standalone experience.

As a side note, I no longer have the files required to detect the user's system compliance and will be reprogramming them from scratch at a later date. With that said, for the purpose of the Steam version of the Advent Heroes demo that provision is now automatically accommodated as the Steam client is no longer supported on the affected versions of Windows. Therefore, I will not be enforcing the stated requirements until the compliance runtime is rebuilt so for at least the time being I will support the demo on any compatible version of Windows until such time as the compliance libraries have been reimplemented, after which it will cease to function on Windows 8.1 and earlier.

As always, more information on Advent Heroes will be released as it becomes available.