Heyo~
First update of 2024!
Starting off our year, we participated in February Steam Next Fest 2024. It was a really great experience with lots of new players checking out our game, posting their impressions, and giving us lots of feedback. Among the people playing our game includes GlitchKat, who created a pre-recorded video of their playthrough for our Steam page! It's only available until the end of April, so if you'd like to check it out you can watch their playthrough here.
We've also been looking over the game script for editing. Tentatively, the script looks approximately 50-55k words before editing/rewrites, codex entries, and item text, but that number is expected to shift around.
Sprite Work
As a small but big milestone for us, all the game's sprite work has been completed! Every major character has a sprite or is represented in some way.
This allows us to focus on completing CGs and backer death photos.
Gameplay and Polish
We've also shifted focus into looking into our mechanics and finding places where we can improve the overall experience. One of our first big pushes has been to look over quick-time events and how they're currently working.
Among the pieces of feedback we've received have included that it can be difficult sometimes to tell if you're meant to wait or do anything during scenes, which can be confusing. We've considered using different coloured timed bars to help better signal that to players. Likewise, we're looking into carrying over your remaining time between interactions where possible.
Thank you for reading, and have a good day!