Anniversary News #10

(Image unrelated to the news, it's just a little study I did back on April, I do a lot of MaM study, I just don't post them anywhere).

Hey guys Axl here, I'll be quick since I've already updated you a little bit earlier this month.

Due to the ear infection I lost around 2 and a half weeks worth of time which is not that much really but it's the time I needed to get the update in time this month.

Even if I could work a couple of hours during that, it just wasn't enough, I'll tell you how the progress currently is and what's left to do:

• As it is right now, I'm completely healthy again, no need to worry about that.

• All the scripts/dialogues are done; just doing some final revisions and improving some flavor text.

• Right now I'm working on the last full voiced script with Alice's VA and after it we'd only need the small fixes for some lines.

• All the art has been done and it only needs the different expressions and VFX's for each.

• The custom assets are almost done and I only need the last tilesets for 2 maps, althought, some may need some final revisions.

• As for the programming, I just need to put all the events into engine, all the main programming is done; it'll be boring work but doesn't take that long; so it shouldn't be a problem.

In this moment my biggest concern is music and playtesting.

As for the music: There is not as much variety as I would have liked to have, mostly because for a while I had in mind hiring people for this but that'd take way too much time and extra money, so the demo may have limited music... sorry about that, I'll improve it later, I just want to get this demo out.

As for play testing, it just takes time, I'll do it a bit for myself and give it to some extra friends to speed it up, but I can never be sure if it'll break or go flawlessly; I'm hoping the pacing of the game feels right so I don't have to do major changes.

I really want to say that it should come around the 14th-21th of September since that's the time gap I lost this month but I'm expecting anything to happen at this point... at this point I'm even expecting to get run over by a car while going to buy groceries.

I've made some cuts to the content I had in mind since it was taking too long, my vision for MaM has only kept growing bigger, and while I'm still working on the full thing I'll just release something right now and patch it if necessary.

I'll announce when the demo is in playtesting phase since I can't give an exact release date; I'll try to not get sick or anything anymore.

And if some of you had any questions about the commissions, I've only delivered the rough layouts for confirmation on the posing, which didn't take more than 2-3 hours away from the game; on that regard I'm still according to plan at least, I'll commit to that once the demo is out so I can do that while I fix anything that may have gone unnoticed during playtesting phase.