Saturday Devlog (August 6)

Hi, everyone! I hope you're all staying safe and healthy.

It's been a little while since I've done one of these, but it feels good to be back on the development track once more. It's been an eventful week so far, what with Book I being released just a couple of days ago--I'd thought that once the drop was over I could focus straightaway on writing Book 2, but it turns out there's quite a bit of work to be done in the aftermath! Nevertheless, bar a couple of bugs that need squashing, everything's mostly squared away for now--and I can finally focus (almost) all my attention on the next update.

With that being said, progress has been a little staggered in this first week. I've completed the storyboard for the next update in full, and written somewhere in the ballpark of 3-4k words--not quite where I was hoping to be at this point, to be honest, but I'm eager to make that change soon. The bits I've already written are kind of enormously spoilery, and perhaps better reserved for when the demo drops in full - as such, I'm thinking of suspending the sneak peek this week in favor of a double feature next week. I hope you understand TT

In terms of the art rewards, I've reached out to my usual artists for commissions, and am currently working on the briefs that I'll need to send out. Unrelated to Patreon but related to AMR, to commemorate the release, I'm also messaging potential artists to draw a celebratory art akin to the one we did for AMR's one-year anniversary (but featuring the Arcadian cast instead). This was intended to be posted right when the game dropped, but the hiatus put a rather speedy end to that plan. 😅 All goes well, perhaps it can be done in time for the game's one-month anniversary!

That about wraps it up for this week's update, but I would be remiss not to mention how overwhelmingly gracious everyone's been in response to Book 1's release. If you'll allow me to be candid, I had been prepared to live every last bit of the starving artist stereotype if it meant I could bring AMR as a series to fruition. But this process has shown me that my passion can genuinely be a viable career path, and as the ones who helped make it all happen - I cannot overstate how much you have changed the course of my life for the better.

Please understand that I mean this from the deepest depths of my heart:

Thank you for supporting the development of A Mage Reborn!