Hello dear friends,
I'm going to publish a new version of the demo. This version greatly improves character creation with many more options for hair and misc. You can also completely customize the color of every option which gives characters a lot more variety. I hope to add even more options over time.
I also improved the targeting stickiness - in short, it feels a lot more responsive. You can also right click to quick switch to the appropriate tool which makes the game a lot more convenient to play.
You'll have to start a new save file - old saves will disappear (well, they're still on your computer, but won't be picked up by the game). I've put in a system that will update old saves to the latest version. Hopefully that will be the case going forward but it may slow me down a lot so we'll see how it goes. Definitely after release I'll have to support that but for the demo, no guarantees.
I also shortened the demo. I'm a little afraid of people playing for a long period of time and then having to start over when the full game comes out. You should be able to update your save file to the full version but I'm not sure how achievements would get handled in that case so I'm a bit worried that people will just have to start over anyway. Although I like people being able to try the game for free, I don't want people to give me a negative review because they had to start over when they bought the full game. In any case, for now you can play until just after the Firefly Festival which is quite a while. I might shorten it more in the future when the full game comes out.
As far as what's next. I'm trying to get new character portraits completed, then work on the trailer. A little more work on the Winter Festival and I think the game will be ready for early access.
As always, thank you so much for playing and take care, everybody.