📖 Dev Diary #March '23 📖 (Patreon)

Hey Crew! Time for one of my infrequent and rambling dev diaries! 😃

THAT WHICH HAS PASSED

It looks to me as though the last update went down well - at least judging from comments and the various stats on Patreon 😊 I'm glad, because even after all this time I get a little nervous with each release - spooked by that little voice of doom that lives in the back of all our heads and counsels despair 😅

It didn't help that I had to make a big change to the update about a week from release. It was supposed to end immediately after Reveille, with no First Watch mission slot and no lunch scene [with all the content from lunch at breakfast]. That felt really unbalanced in my early playthroughs, and I quickly had to switch it all round and make a new breakfast scene. It also totally screwed up my update schedule 😝

Enough of me complaining, though - it all worked out in the end, and the next update is already underway 😎

THAT WHICH IS YET TO COME

The next update will contain at least 3 Second Watch missions, and will be out before month's end. I'm currently developing the long-promised Holodeck levels with Anna and Cole, and making good progress on both 🤗 They'll be similar in length, content and tone to the ones with Sam and Fatima... although I did manage to squeeze a musical bit into one of them. Because I literally cannot control myself 😂

We also have a new guest dev mission dropping this month - containing 375 images and three levels 😲. That comes from the amazing Bakaplays - developer of 🤖Cyberlinxxx - and will be the subject of my next post. I'm very excited about this 🤩

On the Patreon side, stay tuned for more information, more teasers, and a planned PLI poll over the course of the month - and the update itself, natch 😉

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