Weekly Update - 3 February, 2025

Hey all!

This week, as I mentioned in the last update, was mostly editing and testing for the BIP release, but I did also get 4,000 words in on the Pyri scene, which I expect might be just a little under halfway through. The last scenes of Chapter Three do vary quite a bit in length, generally depending on how many branches there are, which is dependent on the pacing of the individual romances. For example, the PC can already be in a relationship with Hermes or Hekate, so those scenes look different from ones like Pyri's or Charon's, where that's not quite established yet, so there are fewer branches to account for.

I think they should all read as about the same length, though, since obviously with all those variations, there's only one branch shown on any given playthrough. All to say, I'm thinking the remainder of the Pyri scene and Hades's shouldn't take me more than a couple of weeks to finish, so I'm hoping to begin the early access cycle for Chapter Three sometime in the middle of February.

This month's progress might be a bit slower for me overall; my partner's dealing with some health issues at the moment, which means I have to go to appointments and procedures and the like from time to time, but overall I'm expecting a steady month, and hope to be stuck into Chapter Four by the end of it.

I'm also working on the user interface for Project Crystalline, so it might be that the bonus content this month is a look at some progress on that, rather than anything directly FoA-related. It won't be like that all the time, of course; I'll only preview the new project when there's something significant to say, and otherwise bonus contents will remain Asphodel-focused for now. I do hope to be able to bring you all an exclusive demo sometime this year, but for now it's very much on the backburner, as BotL remains the focus of my creative energy.

Anyhow, that's the overview for now. I hope everyone's doing well, and that February treats you kindly. :)