Development Update - 20th of September 2025

Side Paths

The animations are now all rendered. We'll complete post-work on them over the next few weeks, including the colour grading/adding sounds.

The still images for Kali are all rendered. The ones for Ley are almost ready to be rendered, and should be in the next few days. The remaining paths should be a bit quicker than these two were, as Shoe_Lac3 has gone ahead and optimised the models for all the paths, ahead of lighting them, so he doesn't also need to focus on these optimisations, as he finalises the lighting and camera, etc.

Although I completed the coding of the side paths some time ago, I plan to review them next week to confirm that all variables are accurate and everything works as intended. This is to ensure that once the stills and animations are ready, we can simply drop them into the game and release it.

We appreciate that you've had to wait much longer than we initially expected for the side paths to release, and we apologise that it's taken as long as it has. I know we've said it several times already, but we do appreciate your patience so much. We're very excited to be getting that much closer to launching them!

Realm 4

We've seen the same sort of progress on Realm 4 this week as we have over the last few weeks.

More facial expressions were posed for Update 3. A couple more animations have been worked on, and we've prepared a couple more outfits for different characters.

We've also started work on the soundtrack. We have two tracks completed, including the main theme for Syren'Hal (the mermaid realm). We're very happy with these so far, and we'll likely share some previews of the new soundtrack closer to the release of Realm 4.

Regarding the soundtrack, we've had numerous requests for us to release the soundtrack separately. I have explored a few options for how best to do this, such as releasing the soundtrack as DLC on Steam or uploading it elsewhere. We'll probably do this by creating a compilation of the tracks and uploading them to YouTube. As we're currently working on Realm 4's soundtrack, I will probably look to launch this on YouTube once we've completed the new tracks, and have the compilation features Realms 1-4 :)

That's all for this week. Thanks so much for your ongoing support. We truly appreciate it!