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Demons Within Update 9: New interface changes preview

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Small previews today! I know that previews of something as technical as settings menus aren't as exciting as new character sprites or CGs and such, but as part of Update 9, Blain and I worked hard on finally making these menus work in tandem with the game's theme as a whole.

Although in menus functionality precedes appearance, I believe that having nice menus that work with the theme improves the game experience as a whole and is an important step to making the game as go...

Demons Within Update 9 devlog: We're getting there!

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Time for another devlog of the progress of Update 9! I'm happy to report that the writing for Update 9 is pretty much done and closed. There's some reviewing left to do, but it closed at around 15k words which is... a substantial update size! I think our largest one has come around 20k and the average is around 10k, so I think people can expect a fair amount of content.

The content itself

Most of the new content is centered around what happens in th...

Demons Within Sprite preview: Helen the escort

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It's been a while, but while I'm steadily working on Update 9 and with its beautiful CG already finished, we've been working on other things on the side as well!

This is another piece on our initiative of 'simpler sprites' for characters that aren't as major as some others. I'm sure you all remember Jen the librarian, who made her debut on Update 8 retroactively in Ludwig's day! Well, here we have Helen, who many of you might not remember as much as Jen because, well, she...

Demons Within Update 9 devlog: How's it going and getting there!

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It's been a while. A lot of stuff has happened in these past two weeks, but even though I had some rocky moments, work goes on! I've been on the writing phase of Update 9 and slow and steady, I've been making it happen! Today I'm sitting here to write one of those more... midway through the development kind of devlogs. Compared to the first one from a few weeks ago, I think that now everything the update will have is already pretty much set as opposed to still being in the plan...

Discord hack resolved, everything is safe (relatively)

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It was a very rough weekend for me. As most of you know, my discord account was hacked on Friday and that compromised everything. The hacker attacked the discord server and banned a few people that were active at the time, but thankfully, Discord restored my account relatively quickly. I didn't interact with the hacker in any way and, apparently, he let go of things pretty quickly after that.

I spent most of the weekend reinforcing security in everything and always watchin...

Warning! Hacked discord account and access to Demons Within Discord server

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Sad news today. My discord account apparently got hacked and with it, access to the Demons Within Discord server.

I'm sending this message real quick to warn everyone not to accept contact from my Discord account or anything from the Demons Within server.

I'll look into what I can do for the server and account both. I'm very sorry for any inconvenience or worse that this could cause to anyone. I'm doing my best to figure out as fast as possible.

I've already un...

Demons Within Update 9 full CG preview

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As promised, here you go. The full-fledged, complete CG for Update 9 for your previewing pleasure. ;)

I say full, but I think that's still an understatement. There's value in this as, while I do very much intend to make an in-game gallery to review CGs at some point, we're not quite there yet, so in-game we won't have a chance to gaze at the complete version of the CG quite like this.

At the same time though, while I tried to bring the best of everything into this ...

Demons Within Update 9 devlog: The usual first devlog!

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Time for the first devlog regarding Update 9! As always, it's been a little while since Update 8 and most people from Patreon have probably gotten a chance to play it already. It'll be going public in a few weeks and, as such, we're already set and working on Update 9!

In this devlog, as usual, I'll ramble a bit about Update 9, what will be in it, what I'm working on, etc. It'll be the initial rambles! The 'what I expect', if you would. Things always change midway throug...

Demons Within Update 9 CG preview 2

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Quick and dirty this time. I mean, what is it there to say? I think that everyone can see it, yeah?

The progress of the new CG is going smoothly! I'll post a devlog this week talking more in-depth about Update 9, what will be in it and the progress as a whole for all of Patreon, but for you preview tier fellas... we have good stuff this month, huh? :D

Blain is doing a stellar job as usual! There's even more to the CG than meets the eye, and a lot alrea...

Demons Within Update 9 CG First Draft preview

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With Update 8 done and released, it's time to start moving on to Update 9! And we'll start off with the promised treat of the scene that didn't make it into Update 8...

As you can see above, we have the first draft of the CG that will feature in the scene and today, as we get to see it, I'll talk a little bit about it as well. :D

While initially the scene in the baths, which includes some meaningful conversations involving Commander Brigham, was going to happen in n...

Demons Within Update 8 is OUT!

Update 8 of Demons Within is now officially OUT early on Patreon!

As always, to get the new Update files, you must connect your Patreon account to Itch.io to access it. If you already did, you can get it right NOW on Itch's Patreon page at:

https://sleths.itch.io/demons-within-patreon

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Demons Within Update 8 Patreon release date!

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As promised, I had some more time to finalize and finish the build, even tweaked it and added a few extra stuff from the beta I thought it was missing! :D

I feel confident enough now to announce that...

The full Patreon release of Update 8 is coming this Wednesday, June 12th!

The full release will feature music, a few sound effects, and an extra memory I think was missing from the beta as well as a few small fixes! Stay tuned! It's coming! :D<...

Demons Within Update 8 screenshots

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On Update 7.5 (and I think 7 as well), I didn't share screenshots because well, in 7.5 the CGs were everything and in Update 7 every single screenshot would be a major spoiler!

This time, however, we're back to normal and you guys can enjoy some slick previews of what's to come very soon in Update 8!

The beta just came out and I have the sounds and a few adjustments and increments I want to do to the build, but the screenshots are there! I'll announce the proper Pat...

Demons Within Update 8 previews: New Sam variations

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Good news for the Sam lovers out there! Given the situations in Update 8, we finally get to see Sam from up close in some... new situations!

Nothing groundbreaking, but he didn't have any of these variations as opposed to the rest of the team and now, at least in this regard, he has caught up. Are there any other regards he still needs to catch up on, I wonder? Hmm...

Anyway, two previews here and, as usual, an extra special preview in the Discord WIPs gallery cha...

Demons Within Update 8 BETA release date!

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Alright, after a whole bunch of work on the new update, I'm happy and confident to be able to announce, even if a little early/late, that the BETA version of update 8 is coming...

This Thursday, June 6th!

A usual reminder that the beta is the first, more barebones version of the build for those who want to see it at its earliest, available to the highest Patreon tier! It has the complete content of Update 8 with most visuals, but lacks...

Demons Within Update 8 devlog: We're almost there!

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Devlog time! Time for more rambling! :D

I'm pleased to be able to say that the development of Update 8 is going smoothly. Writing is finalized, all assets for Update 8 are gathered, inserted into the game, up, running and working. :D I'm working on the update's visuals now putting it all together and there isn't that much left. This isn't the largest update now that one scene was cut out of it, but it's still a little over 10k words, so it's about the size of your usual u...

Demons Within Update 8 previews: Russel and Commander Brigham

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Alright, well, you guys have already seen previews of these two several times as they reached different levels of completion, yeah? As we draw closer and closer to Update 8's release, I'm pleased to be able to present... The pretty much finished version of both of them!

For now, Commander Brigham actually got way more variations than our boy Russel. I'm showing some of them here for you all to see! That might change later on, but we'll see. ;) No spoilers!

I hope yo...

Demons Within Update 8 previews: Jen the Librarian

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As many of you might remember, one of the extra things coming in Update 8 is the new incentive we're trying out of making simple, more straightforward sprites for some minor characters in the game in order to make the experience better while, at the same time, sparing the effort and budget of a fully-fledged sprite for it!

I mean, I think that on the end result it's barely noticeable, if at all, that this type of sprite is simpler in nature, which is a good thing! The fir...

Demons Within Update 8 devlog: Steady progress, unexpected additions

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It's time for another devlog where I dump my thoughts about how the work is going under the excuse of keeping you all updated on the progress. x) Well, I guess it serves that purpose too!

Since we're in the middle of development, today I want to talk a bit about how it's going, a little bit about what'll be in Update 8, and about some changes and additions that might be coming in it that were new even to me. One thing at a time!

The Content

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Demons Within Update 8 previews: Commander Brigham

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Do you like lions? Who doesn't? If you do, you're in for a treat!

Mind you that, while this is more complete than the draft of him shown a long while ago, the Commander here is still due for some big changes. I'll share the finished version with you all when I have it (as well as some bonuses, maybe!), but for now, I wanted to give you all an earlier, colored preview!

Commander Brigham here is the second new character we'll see in Update 8 that's coming soon. I don'...

Demons Within Update 8 previews: Russel

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It's time for another preview from what's coming in Update 8! We'd seen the Russel before when he was still in his sketch phase and now, even though this is still not his finalized and complete version, I thought it was definitely cool enough to share! I thought I'd also share some minor thoughts about him.

As Resnick's older brother, we tried to keep the similarities between the two apparent. Russel is several years older than Resnick, though, so maybe looking at him we ...

Demons Within Update 8 devlog 1: Story stuff + demonic expression sheets

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It's been a while since I released expression sheets, hasn't it? I think that with the addition of the Memorium to the game, they're not as needed anymore. You can literally see all of these expressions on the sprites in the Memorium if you've unlocked the right scenes! Still, I thought it was cool, so here they are in case anyone likes to see them. :)

At any rate, let's move on to the good stuff!

Update 8 is in writing right now. I've already planned and mapped out...

Show your Demons Within fan art INSIDE the game!

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You heard it right! Starting today and following the cool process of some other cool visual novels out there, I'm starting a program to display all the beautiful, inspiring, and amazing fan art we get from Demons Within inside the game itself!

As a game in development, all of you know that I release Demons Within in builds, which are small installments of content one at a time. After each new piece of new content, I also write a few thoughts about the update and future st...

Demons Within Update 8 previews: New minor character sprites

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Well, after all the delicious previews of Update 7.5, we're back with previews of new stuff that's more on the story side, as promised! Today, as you can see, I bring you a bit of an extra. A preview of the first of what will hopefully be a series of minor character sprites we're adding to the game as well!

Most of you have already seen the previews of the major new characters that we'll be seeing in Update 8 (before 7.5 stuff!). I'll bring you guys more on that soon as w...

New surprise Gunther Discord sticker!

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Some of you have already seen it, but I know that not everyone keeps an eye on Discord all the time. The release of this sticker was also kind of hidden in the Announcements section only, so because of that, I'm sharing it here as well!

Though the initial plan was to make a sticker only for the first place of the last sticker poll (which Resnick won!), Gunther here was the second place with a lot of votes. Blain had a good idea for a sticker for him and since we had an up...

Demons Within Update 7.5 is OUT!

The special Update 7.5 of Demons Within is now officially OUT early on Patreon!

As always, to get the new Update files, you must connect your Patreon account to Itch.io to access it. If you already did, you can get it right NOW on Itch's Patreon page at:

https://sleths.itch.io/demons-within-patreon

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Demons Within Update 7.5 Patreon release date!

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Quick announcement today! Been working on applying a few fixes here or there pointed out by the beta testers and on sound! I feel safe enough to say that...

The Patreon release of Update 7.5 will be this Thursday, April 4th!

I'll be making an event on Discord where you can see the rough time of the release adjusted to the appropriate timezone as usual!

It's almost time, mates! Almost time! Just a little more! ;)

Cheers! :D

Demons Within Update 7.5 devlog and BETA release date!

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Though I've been making a whole BUNCH of Patreon posts lately, I know a lot of them are WIP image previews and whatnot and it's actually been a while since I've done a devlog!

This special update we're heading to, which I boringly named 'Update 7.5' for coding purposes, already had all the art assets done and it was mostly writing. Well, even if it was 'just' that, I tried my best to live up to the artwork with it. We have just about 10k words of writing, which is the len...

Demons Within Captured Ending previews 4 + New Bad End screens

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This is it! The fourth and final preview of the new bad ending CGs! As we approach the release of this brand-new update, I'm finally sharing the last little bit of juicy things you'll be able to see in it!

I hope that seeing all of them beforehand doesn't sate anyone's hunger. There's literally ten thousand words of very thorough descriptions waiting to help bring these to life. Some people in Patreon used to support me before when I was just a writer. Some have read some...

Poll results culminating into a brand new Discord sticker!

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Today I'd like to write some about the polls we had recently. We'll start with the most obvious one...

The STICKER poll on Discord! Honestly, I was surprised. I didn't expect Resnick to rise in the polls so hard and fast given that he already had two stickers and other characters also had more time to shine since the last one. That made me extremely happy! As the guy we possess/follow, knowing that people are taking a liking to lil' old Resnick makes my heart soar! I lo...