Saturday Devlog (January 14)

Hi everyone! Hope you're staying safe and healthy.

My apologies that this devlog comes one day late. Despite churning out content at a healthy rate, I'm still finding it difficult to produce prose I can be satisfied with. The happy news is that the next update currently sits at 30k words altogether; the sad news is that they remain far from being refined enough to see the light of day. As a result, I had a difficult time picking a scene to present as a weekly Sneak Peek. It's only after today's process that I could polish a scene to a presentable state, thus resulting in the delay of this devlog.

It's a bit of an odd spot right now, where I have most of the update already written mid-month through sheer brute-force writing, but my mind's not really all there for the necessary step of editing it into something on par with AMR's usual fare. I'm unsure if it's the post-Covid brain fog or just plain and simple writer's block, but I hope to slowly soldier through it as January progresses. If nothing else, if I make as much progress editing for the remainder of the month as I did today, I should have the full update ready by the end of January, with a bit of time to spare.

In other news, I've received the second batch of December goodies in the Arcadian squad's class-swap feature, which I'll post shortly after this post goes up. A Murder of Gods's artist, Fulminaire, has recently been stricken with illness himself, which has unfortunately delayed progress on Satria's artwork. However, he has since recovered from the ailment, and has again begun intensively resumed progress on the project. Hopefully, I'll be able to show you his handiwork very soon.

As for January's goodies, we've begun a new series of Arcanist+ artwork in the form of character tarot cards! I've found a new, promising artist to work on the feature, and they've begun work on the first order. Yesa--our usual artist for Retainer+ features--unfortunately could not open a slot for AMR this month, but AMR's character artist Khutilust has kindly agreed to fill in for her instead. The features will be a bit different from our usual fare, but I hope you'll look forward to them all the same!

That about wraps it up for this week's update. As always, thank you for supporting the development of A Mage Reborn!