Howdy ya'll! Keeping on track so far with progress, its looking like I'll be able to announce a release date next week! I'll want to do a playtest myself this weekend, but stuff is feeling more cohesive and complete.

Feedback on the full game balancing and story is greatly appreciated right now!

Here's whats in this update:

New:

• Basic Controller Support: It has some places that are a bit inconvenient, but you should be able to play the entire game including the blacksmith minigames with a controller. Feedback in this area is super useful!

• Finale now has a notice from QuestCo on the door

• More lore letters relating to Elm / the main story, including an epilogue letter after the credits

Changed:

• Tutorial updated to have a smoother flow, additional guides, and preventing some common issues

• God rays in bedroom now shift in the evening, environment gets darker in the evening

• Twitch integration updated, chat now shows up as a purple kobold, and can pet the cat

• Twitch integration moved to the main menu, also shows successful/error connection messages

• Torch puzzle updated with visual hint

• Debug menu has a confirmation dialog just in case

• "Progress to indie adventuring party" now shows up correctly during the finale

Bugs:

• [FIXED] End of Day order form was triggering the "Open Book" quest

Thanks everyone who has been submitting bug reports! I will be tackling more of those next week. The current list of to-dos that are required for launch are as follows:

• Upgrade photos

• Tutorial for the book

• Tutorial for throwing

• Re-connect side-puzzles

• Final dragon door puzzle

• Write/edit/import NPC dialog for 5 more characters

• Throwing gallery mini-game with prizes

• Lava room update

• Steam Achievements

This all feels reasonable to get done in the next few weeks, but I gotta remember to leave myself time for polish / unexpected stuff. The list of things I want to add to the game is extremely long, but at this point I gotta be really selective with what makes it in.

If the game does well, I would love to do a DLC or some big updates. But those would likely come later this year after I snag a new game design job.

Thank ya'll all so much for the support, feedback, and hype! We're in the final stretch!

-moss