Demons Within Update 9 devlog: How's it going and getting there!

Hey hey!

It's been a while. A lot of stuff has happened in these past two weeks, but even though I had some rocky moments, work goes on! I've been on the writing phase of Update 9 and slow and steady, I've been making it happen! Today I'm sitting here to write one of those more... midway through the development kind of devlogs. Compared to the first one from a few weeks ago, I think that now everything the update will have is already pretty much set as opposed to still being in the planning phase, so I can hopefully talk a bit more about that.

How it's going

As you all can see, I structure these devlog completely randomly, so we'll go with that. I'll start with how things are going and lead up from there!

As you all know, Update 9 will cover the very special bath scene that Update 8 left the story off at. If you haven't read it yet, maybe go give it a read! The CG for it is completely done and shared with the preview tier. I might give some small sneaks and peeks of it in the coming weeks as well, but let me tell you all, it's one of our finest works yet, I think! Hopefully people will like the CG and the gimmicks that come with it.

The scene as a whole is completely written as well. It ended up longer and more elaborate than planned, but I think that's good! We'll get some good use out of that very nice CG! There'll be an infusion wheel moment and two branches towards the end that change pretty much the last 30% of the scene in one way or another. Both have a bunch to offer, so I hope people will enjoy either both or whichever one they choose to go with. ;)

What else is coming

As the scene grew big, (at just about 10k words already), it'll be the main meat of this update. I have one more scene coming after that I'll work on writing next and, once complete, I'll move on to covering the next part of the events, which will then lead to the 'major' events that will be the meat of Update 10. I bet none of you will guess what it is, but you'll see by the end of this one! ;)

Alongside that, Blain and I have had it pending to work on some interface improvements for the parts of the game that are still lacking it. We'll see if we can get that done in time for Update 9 as well or what the status of it will be. That'll be a bunch of coding and the time for the 2-month schedule of Update 9 is getting close to an end. So much has happened in these past few weeks that I think it's possible that the update will be delayed a little bit. Nothing major, I don't think, as I always work hard to make sure we're not delayed by much if at all, but it's possible. I'll keep you all updated on that regard, as usual!

For the most part, Update 9 will feature a lot of code changes. The CG works will be quite different visuals from what we're used to for the most of it and, if we do manage to get the interface changes out already, that's also a lot of code work for me to figure out. That can be a bit unpredictable, but as a good ol' software developing wolf, I do enjoy it! I'll get it all done ASAP and I promise the game will be all the more awesome for it. :D

I think this is enough for a devlog for now! Basically, things are going. We're approaching Update 9 in a steady pace and, hopefully, it'll be out before you know it! \o/

Finally, as always, big thank you to all of you for the continued support. I love all of you!

Cheers!