Hi there!
Sorry for the clickbait it's just a normal update (but every update is important, so...)
I know many of you out there have been eager to receive information from me so allow me to break the silence by using a recent quote from another Australian dev team:
"Windswept is real, progressing, and will release."
*mic drop*
There you have it folks, worry not!
But seriously, I'm sorry I haven't been as active with these news updates. It's hard being Mr WeatherFell in every facet of the development process and I've been super busy just making the game and trying to garner more attention for it on socials.
The FACTS!
Windswept is "done"
Yep! Every stage in Windswept has been made, the beginning of the end starts now.
I was given instructions back in July that I should get all of Windswept's content made by the end of January in order to ensure the game has a smooth porting/localization process (that's next week OH NO).
Content in this context means I need every stage, menu, overworld, minigame, etc. functional and playable from start to end.
Anyway, since July I've been on a 6-month crunch to get everything done in time, I've had to take holiday hours off work, cut back on all my hobbies and put some other life events on hold in order to get to where we are right now. I'm not saying any of this to garner pity or sympathy, it's just how it turned out and I did what I deemed necessary to ensure things stay on track. In addition to this, I've had to fulfill my Kickstarter responsibility of releasing World 3's beta in September and World 4's beta in December to eligible backers, that latter update was so riddled with bugs due to this content crunch I simply didn't announce it here just until I could find the time to fix them all up first
So yeah, that's why my updates haven't been as timely as they used to be, I've been grinding!
You: Show me the stuff!
Me: Soon! Eventually! Promise!
Gathering screenshots and video footage is another time sink I unfortunately don't have the capacity to manage right now, sorry!
The best I can do for now is drop some of the "is this marketing? 👋🦋" footage I've been posting on Twitter and Bluesky.
It's truly all I can manage for now, I just wanted to touch base and keep you all in the loop! Next update will possibly be a release date announcement. Or maybe it won't. But it could be... Unless it isn't!
And if Silksong drops in our release window so help me!