Beta Demo Update

This is just a little update--no updates online yet!--but I'm just excited to let y'all know that, time and fate permitting, the beta demo will be coming by the end of this month!

What does full beta demo mean? It means both Princesses are written--front to back--and we're moving into rounding out, bug-fixing, and editing phase!! This is not mean big changes may not happen between the initial beta demo and the final release, but it does mean that most princesses will be playable and it shouldn't feel as if some stuff is just waiting for content (& if it does, I'll try and change that!).

What's being done right now?

I've been focusing a LOT on bug fixing and polishing right now. I fixed a lot of lingering bugs, both from engine rewrites, and ones that likely go back even longer. In initial play tests, I've been able to reach the end of every sequence through normal play! I keep expecting this bad boy to break in half, but many of the engine rewrites have really paid off by making a lot of bug fixing extremely straightforward.

The polishing is nice too, since the general gameplay should be smoother, and the CSS has been improved even more--specifically, the save menu is actually styled, and everything overall should be more consistent!

I think the difference speaks for itself! (I'm obsessed with the new borders, they're so nice!)

Anyway, that's the most of it. The editing & last bits of writing (side events, one or two places where I accidentally forgot to fill out scenes) will take a butt ton of time, but that will all be taken care of in time as I will also be implementing updating emotive sprites & animations (probably not all done for the initial beta demo). 

Editing will likely reflow quite a few things since I have a goal to cut a lot of words so that the strongest content can shine better, but that's a matter of improving pacing & length of scenes, not adding or removing ones that already exist (there's a LOT of remove scenes & sequences, but none of them have seen the light of day in the demos doing to just... not working with what needed to be happening).

I look forward to y'all getting your hands on the Beta demo! In addition to that, that's when I'll officially be asking for beta testers for the final game.

Hope you're all doing well!

I'm been tweeting about a lot of the progress with bug fixing & writing, so feel free to check out my twitter if you want to get a better sense of how things are progressing.

Leah ❤