Saturday Devlog (June 5)

Hi everyone, and happy Saturday! Hope you're all staying healthy and safe.

It's been a pretty productive first week of development so far, with two major things on my to-do list having been checked-off. Betrayer, Ilya's side story, is now up and running, and the game-breaking bug that prevented me from releasing the Spirit Gate path's last bit has now been addressed.

Its implementation brings the last update's wordcount to 23k words, which means the game has now hit the 150k-word milestone! We've more than tripled our wordcount since the project's initial release in February, and that's only been possible due to your support. So thank you so much!

A bit of bad news, first: unfortunately, progress on the main game has been a bit slow due to Betrayer taking up most of my writing time this week. I'm still mostly in the storyboarding stage, though I did knock out 2k words of writing for the next update. The good news is that I turned in my final project for this semester just a few hours ago, which means that I have the rest of this month free for nothing but writing!

I'm setting pretty ambitious goals for this month due to this very reason: 25-30k words of progress on the main game, and another side story coming near the end of June. I'll be awaiting requests from Arcanists before tossing up a poll for the side story--same goes for the monthly features as well!

The main content of the next update will be an expansion of the pre-resurrection arc, specifically transpiring after the royalty's identities are discovered but prior to Sister's Murder Ball (tm). The main goal of the arc is to 'show, not tell' the oppression Arcadians have faced under Param's rule, which will hopefully make the Arcadians' cause a little more resonant.

I'll do my best to implement a way for you to import characters from the end of the current build to this new segment, so that you won't have to restart the game to play through the new content. I'll keep you posted on how that effort goes--in the meantime, I hope Betrayer and the most recent update will tide you over!

As always, thank you for supporting the development of A Mage Reborn.