March 2025 Devlog - Shelter v44

Awoo, mates!

I thought it would be cool to let you know how my work on the upcoming update is going!

The new script is nearing its completion. I'm at about 13000 words right now, but there are still a few scenes I'd like to cover to reach a nice cutoff point. I would prefer not to cut corners on that, so I think I'll just let it grow as much as it needs. I hope that will make it a much more enjoyable read for you.

I have a new CG for it already prepared with a bunch of alternative pieces, a piece of new amazing music from Hughhh (althought I'm 95% sure that will need to wait for v45's content), the PATHS cover ALL the nodes now, I changed a whole bunch of code to make it easier to implement alternative language options into the game, and now we have Chinese and Russian language option in the startup. More languages may be added later, after we make sure everything runs smoothly.

Completing PATHS was what took the most extra time, and the main reason why I doubt I'll manage to finish the build in March. I knew I should have spread that expansion over v44 and v45, but I got too excited and really wanted to see all of it in its full glory. I think it was worth it! I'll still tweak it a little in the future, make it prettier, add extra info in the nodes, and fix up all the bugs you guys will surely report, but all of that will be just small work. The biggest part is already over, and I'm super happy with how it turned out.

Other than that, I spent a few of my less busy evenings learning about shaders in Unity, to make sure our side RPG project is as visually pleasing as possible before we finally start sharing screenshots, clips, and such. I'm really excited to finish Shelter the VN one day to finally join my coder friend in building our Unity game full-time. It's turning out really special and the battles are fun already (at least to me uwu). Since I already officially shared all of the character teasers on Patreon, the next devlogs I share about SheltRPG will finally start covering the details of the actual game, the gameplay mechanics, and also our WiP assets, so look forward to that!

I think that's it. I'll take the rest of this Sunday evening off to relax a little, and I'll get back to writing and drawing as soon as I wake up. I hope you'll enjoy the night adventures of Alon and the Rat <3

Your Dog,

Raus Vuffski