karras

September Update

Hello everyone!

The last month or so has been a hard time for both myself and Nerton. That said, I now have a good first draft of Day 3 (technically, splitting the game up by days starts to b...

August Update #2 plus apologies

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I'd like to thank you all for your continued support! I acknowledge the lack of concrete updates and in turn, I understand if you feel I am being unduly quiet or lacking in up...

August update

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Thank you for your continued support! August has been a very difficult month on account of my day job. That said, I have written much of the script for Day 3, but more than th...

July Update (Spoilers!!)

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So June was an intense month, although I did have a two week leave during which I made a lot of progress on outlining the next act, which is, to put it lightly, a big one. It rep...

Asset progress (spoiler warning!)

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My workload from my day job has cooled recently, plus I have a two week holiday starting from the 10th. I intend to use this time to translate my outline into a script for day 3 that c...

Garret CG WIP

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Commissions continue apace, this one being in response to feedback I've received that the player doesn't get enough of a look at our  MC, Garret. This is a sketch for w...

May Update

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So April and May have been, to put it politely, murder for me. Most nights I am working late, up to 8 or 9 pm, waking at 6 or even earlier for remote meetings. I have booked off ...

Approach to story

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So in my last update I mentioned how I was pondering how to proceed in light of the fact the story currently has unfinished paths and how I am planning on having multiple branching sto...

May Update

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To put it mildly, the last couple of months have been mental at my day job, frequently requiring out of hours work and irregular meetings. Working on a 7-10 schedule on a semi...

Surprise from Nerton!

So Nerton surprised me with these, totally out of left field and I adore them so much I decided to share them with you! At some point I may try to sell these as stickers or merch but that is someth...

March Report and postmortem (sort of)

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So the release 0.2 was a long time coming and I'm doing my utmost to ensure the next update won't be as long in the making. However, the next update will involve the end of the s...

0.2.1 Public release

So the stable public release is finally out! Work on the next build is already underway but as before it's difficult to give a time frame due to the need to commission the backgrounds required. The...

It's ready! 0.2.0 available to download!

It's been a long time coming, but I've finally got a release candidate!

As I said in the last update, there are still placeholder backgrounds, one of which is a sketch rather than ...

Next build imminent!

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Thank you all for your patience! A build candidate for patron-only release is almost ready. I will be adding all patrons to a special backers screen, which I will complete tom...

Poll results

So the poll has been up a couple days and I can't imagine it's going to swing a different way short of an act of God, so it's official: I shall keep the Patreon as-is!

Words can't describe ho...

What we saw at the Ninth

A fantastic track provided by Hop Skip and the Chew Toys! This is now integrated into Day 1 and Day 2. I cannot describe how wonderful it is, how it captures a windy, frigid theme.

Please, gi...

Future of Patreon

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So as you know, I kept my job and have been getting on with programming day 2. it’s been slow going with my day job, but musician Hop Skip and the Chew Toys made an amazing track for...

February update

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So first things first, I survived the redundancy  process. I still have my job!

I’m trying to get back on track but the uncertainty left me unable to concent...

January Update

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I had intended to aim for a patron-only update for Day 2 at the end of January, with a public update in the middle of February, but I have learned the past Wednesday that I am...

December update and happy new year!

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It's been quite a year, not just for Polar Night but in my life in general. I started this story (in its initial form) as far back as 2020 and went through a number...

November update

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It's been a while, apologies. Just thought I'd update everyone and give some peeks at some assets that are finished and underway!

So back in September, my health took a ...

End of September update

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This month has been quite a ride. A very heavy workload, illness and my birthday all in one month has made it very difficult to work on the script, but I am happy to say the first draf...

Update 9/9 - Day 2 first draft

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It's been a while, apologies for being quiet!

So a status update, day 2 first draft of the script is almost complete, along with parts of day 3. I've also gotten the first of sev...

Some behind the scenes

So welcome to recent new patrons! Thank you for your support, it really does mean everything to me!

Because this project does not have set updates on account of the need for assets, I've deci...

A note about builds

My workflow has been a bit chaotic as I learn how to manage a project like this, so I am organising the builds I provide to patrons onto a google drive folder where you should (hopefully) be able t...

0.1.0 Released!

Please see the devlog for a full feature update!

So for the avoidance of confusion, I don’t have a release schedule or ETA for the next major update. While I am working on it as ...

Build 0.0.2

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Build 0.0.2 is now available for patrons. There is no new story content, but it does contain a lot of script polishing and some rewriting of certain scenes. Nothing major, but I would ...

Garret CG + Update

So it’s been quite an amazing week. I‘ve been taking a break since launch to recharge after an intense year and change of writing, planning and commissioning the sprites. Nerton has provided th...

Garret ref

So the first build has no visual depiction of Garret, I thought I'd provide a glimpse to his appearance. The ref of course done by the lovely Nerton who captured his essence wonderfully.

Even...

Welcome patrons!

Thank you to our new patrons for your support! It's been humbling to get support so soon after launching the demo, particularly with how long and difficult getting it to this point has been! <...