Hello, everyone!

This is Lucky Cat, the solo dev behind The Silent Kingdom.

During the past two months, I mainly focused on the very first task for chapter 3: the script.

Ch.3's script is over 150 pages now and I'm already on the very final arc, very close to the endings.

Sometimes, it hits me that I'm so close to finishing writing this story and saying goodbye to these characters. It feels lonely, somehow.

Another task I've worked on during these past two months was the English translation for chapter 2.

355 pages out of 540 have been translated so far. More than half done!!

There are still many CGs from chapter 2 I have pending to draw, but I won't touch that until the summer heat is gone. The room where I draw is pure hell.

I hit several blocks while writing chapter 3 script, as I must carefully weave every detail together. Writing a game is different than writing a novel, where you can come up with an idea and go with it. In this game, every idea I have for a scene might be both possible and impossible, depending on player's choices. That makes me rack my brains hahaha.

The biggest block for chapter 3 was this scene where the princess is placed in a difficult situation, which could only be solved with someone else's help. There were several NPCs who could actually help with that. However, it was possible that players had alienated all of them, so the princess would be on her own for that scene in particular. Naturally, having no allies is going to have ugly consequences, but I can't allow it to be a dead end in the story. Even with bad consequences, I must give players the chance to still move forward.

I managed to survive that scene in the end, and luckily it's done now, but it was such a pain hahaha.

Another point I'd like to comment, related to the script... When my sister tested chapter 2, she enjoyed it and gave me very interesting perspectives about how her princess regarded the knight, and how willing she was to "make mistakes" just for him. This made me modify parts of the script in order to allow for those possibilities to exist, and for those "mistakes" to not be the end of the romance.

It's not the first time someone tells me an interesting and well thought perspective, and I add ways to make it true. This is why I really love hearing about people's journeys in the game. It is true when I say that they inspire me.

Last but not least, I tend to post monthly on Kickstarter, and every two months here on Steam. I wonder if I should make monthly Steam posts too. I haven't done it due to several reasons: I don't know if many updates would bother people, not all entries would have new images, and posting on Steam takes time that I could be using for working on the game. However, recently some people seemed worried that I hadn't been communicating, so I wonder if I should post monthly instead.

In any case, for this month I'd like to keep working on the script and translation, but I might actually start mapping and programming the existing script instead.

Thank you very much for your patience and support during the years, while this game takes shape. I still don't know how players will feel when they play the story, but I believe they'll enjoy it. That makes me very excited and eager to continue.

See you at next update!