Falling Undercover: Nox Syndicate - [Episode 06] Status Update & Announcements

Hey everyone! 🙏

Hope you are all having a good September! We’ve been hard at work on Episode 06 and today we’ve come to present you with a status update and a couple of other pieces of news. We’ll start with a breakdown of our progress:

• Writing: 60%

• CGs: 4/5

• Animations: 2/?

• Additional Art: 0/2

• Coding: 60%

• Music and SFX: 50%

• Proofreading: 0%

• QA Testing: 0%

The writing on this one was slightly more complicated than previous episodes, so it had a bit of a slow start, but the pace should improve as we get further into the update. The art has been coming along nicely. The CGs are almost complete, and the animation process is in progress, although there is still a lot to do. In addition, there are a few new custom backgrounds we have commissioned directly for this update, which we quite like and hope you will enjoy as well!

The next piece of news is regarding our Patreon. We have been very flattered by the generosity that people have showed to us. Especially in recent months, people have been really going above and beyond, both as a group and individually. A growing number of people have asked if there was a way to support us even more, which is a very pleasant surprise. To cater to those people, we have introduced a new tier: Supernova. We want to make it clear from the beginning that it doesn’t provide anything special, as we do not want to make people feel pressured to give us large amounts of money on a monthly basis to get the complete experience as a fan of our work. It is a tier that is there solely for those that can afford to give extra and want to do so!

…Also it was a nice excuse for Operae to draw cute Luna face 😌

Finally, we want to highlight a very special person, whose work you have probably been admiring for a while: CyCaDeLiC.

If you have been hanging around the Azienda Discord the last couple of years, you might have encountered him. He’s friendly and passionate, and was always very encouraging to us, even during some of the leaner times later in TTP’s development.

In fact, it was in that period that he first approached us about perhaps helping us with… some of the areas we were not very good at. To be clear, those are our words, not his! We were never very good at advertising ourselves, so someone offering to do some pro bono video editing to help promote our new project was something we were cautiously interested in.

Well, we’ll cut to the chase. You’ve seen the results here every month promoting each new episode and we think that they have been outstanding. Exciting, mysterious and sexy, they make us excited for the release, even after a month of eating, breathing and sleeping FUNS.

So his help with that has been completely indispensable, but it didn’t end there. If you enjoyed the character bios or the look of the Status menu in FUNS, that was some of his graphic design handiwork. In addition, you may have noticed that over the last few updates, the number of animation variations has pretty dramatically increased. That is another example of Cy’s growing contributions to Azienda.

So, all this to say, CyCaDeLiC has been a major addition to the Azienda team for some time now, and we just wanted to take a moment to make that official! Thank you Cy for all of your help, and we look forward to continuing to work with you in the future!

Now, as we say goodbye for now, we just want to circle back and thank all of you for your continued support. You guys allow us to put food on our plates and, even more than that, now allow us to compensate other artists of all kinds that help make FUNS a special game. As things continue to grow, we hope to use those resources to make our projects even better. Things that have forever been on our wish list, such as more robust animations and translations, are now a reality, and we hope that other exciting possibilities we have dreamed of could become a reality as well. Only time will tell, but your support has brought many dreams within our grasp already, and we look forward to seeing what the future holds.

Until next time,

Furoshiki, Operae, Mint, CyCaDeLiC,

Azienda