Demons Within Update 14 BETA release date!

Hey hey!

Devlog time! Sort of! But most importantly, I've been working hard on Update 14 stuff and I finally feel confident enough to set the BETA release date to...

This Friday, January 30th!

Reminder that the beta version is a super early release for the highest level of Patreon to see the content while I'm still ironing this out!

Things are going pretty well in this update, but the major thing to note is the Ren'py version update. I had updated it early in this update cycle, made several adjustments and improvements in the game to make it work in the new version and tested the entire game myself. However, this week I was forced to update Ren'py yet a little further due to a problem testing the Android export of the game. Though this was just a small version update without many changes, I'm not 100% sure I've tested every single detail of the game for bugs or problems. I'm confident, but you never know! We'll see how things work and the beta is the best place for that. To make sure that the full Patreon release will come out without frustrating bugs for people to deal with.

Regarding the update itself, it is a nice, chunky and healthy update sitting at 12-13k words. Not gigantic like the last one and more regular-sizes. I reckon it will feel a bit smaller for people when they play as some of that comes in the form of branches and variations of dialogue based on previous choices. Some dialogues change based on:

• If you went with Edwin or Ludwig in the first spare day at the beginning of the game

• If you went with Edwin's day, if you had Boris or Jayden join you in the action with Edwin

There's variations taking all of the different previous outcomes in the stuff Edwin, Boris and Jayden do in this update. We'll be seeing all of them and more!

Right now, I've been polishing the game, making some improvements I had pending and adding some sprites and memories that were missing (like Brigham's). The only thing still missing is the new CG we will see in this update, as Blain is still working on the final touches of it. I'm pretty confident it'll be done by Friday, though! We also have a very relevant background in the works that will probably not make it to the beta version, but will probably be done for the Patreon release! It's gonna be awesome. :)

Whew. Every update is quite a lot to handle, but we're almost there!

Cheers!