Demons Within Update 13 devlog: So many things at once!

Hey hey!

It's been a while, so you guys know what time it is: devlog ramble time!

I wanna start by saying that I should have probably made this earlier. I've been juggling a bunch of things and at this point, it has already been a full month since Update 12 came out! Time flies! In the spirit of keeping a... at least close to 2-month schedule, I'm shifting my focus heavily into Update 13 now.

Usually, this happens a bit earlier than this. However, I feel like my attention has been heavily split in this post-update period. More so than usual! After each update, I usually take some time to catch up on all the things I left hanging while I worked hard to finish up the last update. This time was kind of the same, except I have a lot of exciting threads to follow! I'm trying to get it all done and, well, I wanna talk a little bit about it all so you guys know what's going on. I've been working hard on:

The crossover with Shelter
I assume here that most of you have seen the awesome announcement of the Demon Within Shelter crossover we have coming soon! The prologues on both sides were being worked on and planned while I was working on Update 12 at the same time. After Update 12 's launch, I coded up the visuals for the entire prologue and started working on writing Chapter 1 of the crossover, as our plan is to launch it with the prologues in both games and at least Chapter 1, continuing them, already available. The prologue on the Demons Within side is about 5k words long (about half an update in Demons Within standards). The first chapter, however, I just finished at just about 9k words. That's uh, that's almost an entire update's worth of content to go through in Chapter 1, not counting the prologue! It was a bit bigger than planned, but just as with the game, I make things as big as I think they should be to be the best they can be. Hopefully, you all will have fun with the content of this crossover! It's coming soon and, as I said, even though that's not part of Update 12, I hope it'll pay off the extra time I took on it!

The Lust side game

I hope most of you haven't forgotten about the special side game I announced a while back! I certainly haven't! Progress on that is going smoothly as well, slowly but surely. There's a LOT that goes into this and when it comes out, I think it'll be a bit of a revamp of the game as a whole. Well, in a way. The story and VN side of things will continue as they are, but I really want this to be a fun thing integrated into the game as a whole. I have a lot of cool plans for that, but there's still a lot to do. This will be a huge coding endeavor that I'm already working on, and at the same time, I have to spend a lot of time working closely with Blain in making sure all the elements look good and are ready to be used as they should. Just as before, I'll give you all a special preview of the current state of things (evolved from that announcement) right here, right now. At least on the visual side! Have a look:

Just as before, keep in mind that this is a SKETCH MOCKUP. The elements are planned, mostly in place, and most of them are finalized, but this isn't exactly a faithful representation of how the game will be and work. It's kinda-sorta there, though! I'll give previews of specific elements and talk more about them in future preview posts coming!

I think it's shaping up pretty well, and I really think it's gonna be a lot of fun! Some of my time has been spent making all of this get into shape, and now, as I mentioned, I'm coding it all up. It's gonna be a lot... but heck if it won't be worth it! ;)

Some of the elements of this screen will be fun to share and talk about. ;) More on that soon!

And finally, Update 12

Whew! I haven't even begun speaking about Update 12, and this is already a really long devlog! Well, hopefully, you can see why my attention has been a little split. However, I'm confident that all of this will pay off in the form of awesome new stuff we'll get to enjoy alongside the updates! I'll talk more in-depth, specifically about the content of Update 12 in the next devlog. I have a lot of image previews to show, and I'll be showing some from Update 11 that I didn't want to show before it came out because they were spoilers, too. I'll get to those little by little in the next few weeks as the update takes shape!

All I can say about Update 12 for now is that, predictably, it will continue right from where Update 11 ended, and then we'll keep moving on with the story. Things are starting to change and move on to, well, big events. We have a REALLY big event coming very soon, since it's been a while since the last big story event by now. Everything is culminating to... well, we'll just have to see. ;)

Exciting things ahead!

Thank you all for your patience and support, and I hope to have so much more to bring to you all very soon! I'll keep you all posted!

I wish you all a great week!

Cheers!