Chapter 5 delayed until December, and progress so far!

Hi everyone!

How were you these last few months? I had to endure a hellish July and a muggy August, but it's been going alright overall other than some health hijinks as usual.

My original plan was to release chapter 5 in September. That might have been optimistic, but nothing could have prepared me for how incredibly cursed the recording for chapter 5 would be.

I'm not talking cursed as in painful memes and laughing. I'm talking car accidents, near-death events, general sickness, people quitting voice acting, a hurricane, having to rerecord several parts because of recording mishaps... to the point that it still is not yet complete (there is very little left, but it is not complete despite having scheduled all recordings to be complete before July)

So yeah. If I can have at least all the audio ready this month, that'll be a victory. Then that will only leave my greatest enemy: scripting all the animation and each single scene.

Which will then leave my other greatest enemy: making all the necessary art.

Please wish me luck. My new self-imposed deadline would be 8th December 2023, my birthday. I don't have all the confidence in the world I'm going to get the game out before I turn 28, but I'll try.

If you happen to be headed to Indie Dev Days Barcelona next week, make sure to say hi! I won't have a table, so just keep an eye out for the short pale black-haired dev in a blazer with massive dark circles under their eyes trying not to perish.

Hope you have a lovely September! See you soon!