October news post #2 (Patreon)

If you haven't seen our previous news post to kick off October, you can check it out below! ^^
https://www.patreon.com/posts/october-news-1-57073387

I'll give a heads up, that this post won't be very big. Right now there isn't a ton to say or go over that hasn't already been addressed in the previous post.

The main thing you're all here for is probably the question of when v0.20 will be out exactly, right? :P

I'm not purposely trying to make it sound like I'm stringing anyone along, as it can be a bit difficult to pinpoint the exact date we want for release, unless we're near finished with editing and having it in the engine. We normally go on a rough estimated guess and that's why things change for expected time of release.

With that said! Our rough guess for v0.20 to be ready was Oct 15-22nd period, but I'm going to say this and some can take it with a grain of salt if you prefer, nothing wrong with that. ^^" Expect v0.20 by Halloween night, it might be late enough where it actually could be Nov 1st for some of you out there around the world. But that's my deadline date I have set and I won't be pushing it past that.

Right now as I type this out, the episode 5 script is about 95% done. I'm currently doing my rounds of double checking through it as a whole to fix up any adjustments and working on additions of choices before it's all passed along to Artie for editing/engine phase. (Which normally is expected to take 7 days tops, just due to his own schedule.)

So as long as I have everything passed over to him by the latest, Oct 23rd. I should have v0.20 in my hands for testing and getting uploaded, ready for Halloween! ^^

Once again, I am sorry about how awkward our schedule has been this year as a whole in development. With the release of v0.20, we'll be shooting to have v0.21 released within around 30 days and from there. We'll be doing our 45 day development cycle for releases moving into 2022! That way we can properly deliver fresh, new content similar to how we did things during 2020.

Honestly, that's really it for this mid month news post! <.< One thing I do hope to include with v0.20 is a new character sprite that's in the works right now. I don't know if they'll be ready in time, but it's a character that shows up towards the end of ep 5 and should be a big moment coming for fans! :P (If they're not ready for v0.20, we might do a mini v0.20.5 release that adds some bug fixes and the sprite a week after initial release.)

With that all said, from all of us at Messy Studios!
We hope your spooky month is going well! ^^