Saturday Devlog (Dec 25)

...except it's the Sunday, post-Christmas edition! Hope you've all had a lovely December 25th, and here's to a better 2022 for us all. :)

So, updates on the game! Writing is going smoothly thus far; I'm at 20k words at the time of this post, and I'm in-gear enough right now to reasonably believe I can exceed the 25k goal come update day. Further, I've also figured out a structure for the next update that I'm 100% happy with! Scenes will be separated into two 'stages', with the first stage being the festival and the second stage being what transpires after. In the first stage, you will be able to pick any two of Eli, F, and Yu's scenes, while in the second stage you will be able to pick either the scene that begins Yu-F's polyamory route, or a scene with the mysterious character from last week's sneak peek!

You will also be able to skip one or both stages simply by choosing to sleep through the whole thing (which, well, mood).

Onto the bad news: unfortunately, there are some health-related hiccups in the art department, and I'm currently unsure if some of the artworks will be ready in time for the new year. The artist's health takes priority, of course, and so currently what I'll most likely do if the artwork is delayed is to suspend charging for January and have AMR on a bit of a break. I'd be using the time to iron out the absolute cavalcade of errors that has been reported both by readers and by beta testers, which I've thus far been putting off in favor of writing new content.

However, if the artworks do get finished in time, then January will be business as usual, as I'd prefer to take that break at a more conclusive plot point than the end of the current update. I'll be sure to keep you posted once I'm certain what the case will be.

In the mean time, I'll also be posting a Sneak Peek soon, picking the scene up from where we left off last time! It'll be a small, dainty peek so as not to spoil the whole thing, but given how strong the reaction had been last time, I feel called to at least show a little bit more. x)

That about wraps it up for this update. Thank you for supporting AMR, and see you when the update drops in a few days!