Progress Report #59: March 2023

Greetings Voidlanders!

With our latest VoidBound patch now out in the wild, the team is finally taking a well-deserved breather- "breather" being the key word here. The biggest hurdle might be behind us, but there are still an array of tasks that remained unfinished.

Be it tackling content that didn't make it in time or issues that might have slipped through the cracks, there were no shortage of tasks that needed the team's undivided attention. As is the weekly tradition, let's revisit some of them together.

In our recent patch logs we mentioned that a select few sprite elements were still a work in progress as we ran out of time before completing them fully. Deemed as a priority, our artist continued working on it at full speed making sure all minor graphical goofs and kinks were hammered out. Additionally, with initial feedback pouring in on a daily basis, CGs across multiple events were retouched slightly. In particular, the "prisoner" event was given a detailed once over as our writers also had some new ideas about it. All in all, Doppel's plans to kick back and relax didn't exactly pan out as he had planned.

Speaking of the writers, their time spent this week was comparatively less hectic. No doubt they were on the ball, absorbing all the incoming feedback and making revisions to the dialogues where necessary, but much of their attention was spent brainstorming content for the mysterious upcoming zone called the "Arena World". Details are still sparse, but a vague presumption here is that it's going to be a content rich world separate from Henosis and will be home to Caly's next leg of adventure. Of course, take this speculation with a giant bag of salt because a writer's mind is creatively whimsical and easily swayed by new ideas.

Meanwhile, our coders spent the week with barely a wink of sleep, keeping a hawk eye on the bug report corner. Can't blame them- calling the implementation timeline "tight" would be an understatement. Still, they kept themselves frosty, fixing minor issues like typos and switch misalignment, all the way to addressing a major game breaking combat issue that mainly stemmed from old saves being imported into the new patch. Overall, a very sweat inducing week for our binary boys.

And that's it for this one. We should also take this opportunity to announce that our Patch 0.5.3 Public Release containing 80+ HCGs, a central event of Vas jumping Caly's bones, hundreds of newly voiced lines and much more, is due out tomorrow! 

So, keep an eye out for it! Until then, take care o/

Kind Regards,

Cursed-Atelier Team