Branded Progress Update - 07/09/2025

Hey hey!

Bit of a shorter update this week as I've taken a few days off for silksongs release. Hope all hollow knight fans are having fun with the new game too!

In actual dev news, I've been working on story content for both characters in multiple ways. Most notably implementing Irellias way of contacting you and making sure you're keeping your eyes on the right prize. With this I've not yet decided if I want to have her only reach out to you (in all senses) on her own terms, or if I want the player to be able to get into contact freely and make some spicy deals if they so choose.

Character wise, I've been advancing work on Jade and Cam's interactions and where that's going, while also starting the Jade and Elora events as well, which have a fun contrast to her and Cams. Elora's interactions will also be helping Jade but without the level of knowledge as to her intentions that Cam has from, well, being a victim of her thievery. Down the line this will also lead to some fun content involving all three should you be progressing Jade's stuff with both Cam and El.

Alongside this, Seren has seen some nice new events starting as well, which of course still links to the "main task" in Cams story at the moment, but will soon reach a point where Cam can freely investigate all the options on his own and Serens content will continue separately.

I've also taken on board a lot of feedback and general talks with fans, and decided to implement a diary system where you'll have an item in your inventory to be able to check the current stats for things like corruption and mana for each character. This means the player will have a much easier time gauging how close they are to certain choices and give much more transparency. I'd aimed to have a custom screen in the new UI to show these details, but seen as the new UI will be pricey and still a ways off, this should act as a nice middle ground for the mean time. Along side this, I'm planning to tie Cam's mana to his classes mana value too, so that it avoids any confusion when looking at the menu and it looks like he has full mana based on base rpgmaker stats.

Finally, I meant to post some sneak peaks and some follower polls this week, but in all honesty, I forgot and took the time when I wasn't doing dev work to play more silksong instead. Sorry about that, and I'll be making sure to post those sneak peaks along with some extra stuff this week to make up for it!

That's all for now! I'm off to start work on some more Jen content for the next update. Thank you all for the support, and have a great week!

-BaconSoap