A look back on the week that was...

Current game word count: 46 912 (+ 4146 since last devlog)

Productive week! The game's soundtrack is done (and boy is it ever boppin'), and all the background artwork is done as well, since Alisa finished the last one just a few days ago. In addition, I'm approaching 50k words, the theoretical halfway point of the game. I say "theoretical" as it will probably end up being more than that... oops.

Lots of writing left to do, and CG too, so both me and Alisa have our work cut out for us. I'm hoping for a Summer release, but no promises...!

Now, milestone time!

This calls for a celebration! I'm removing the demo next week. Wait what?! Insanity! Let me explain.

For those of you who follow my progress, you may have noticed that the game in its current form is very different from the demo. Larger things, like the UI, the traits system, the soundtrack and quality of life options have all been either added or changed. This also goes for many "smaller" things  (which together make quite a substantial whole), such as rewrites to make the script tighter, more player choices and volume adjustments for sound effects and voice acting.

All in all, the demo is now so far away from the current game's quality that I can't justify keeping it online anymore. I've gotten so much lovely feedback, which has been super helpful in shaping the current build of the game, and it's clear that the world of Riva and its quirky characters have already resonated with a lot of players. I couldn't be happier.

However, now the time has come to look forward, to the release of the actual game, a much better and more complete experience. A new demo will launch together with it, of course, but when? I don't know.

So if you're at all interested in finding out what's going down in Riva City, you have until the end of Sunday to download the demo. 

It's still worth the visit. :)

Once more, from the bottom of my heart...

Thank you *so* much for 100 downloads. <3

/Tymedust