Demons Within Update 5 devlog! (Patreon)

Hey hey!

It's time for another devlog and update on how things are going with Update 5!

Edwin's day will have a lot to offer and, as cover for this, nothing feels more appropriate than some doodling (courtesy of the amazing Blain) of what you might find in Edwin's notebooks. Beer is great!

Edwin's doodles aside, let's get on with what really matters! The update's content and its developments!

I'm happy to say that things are going well enough. I'm not sure if I'm late or early in the development this time, but the public release of Update 4 is already crawling in to happen next week! Time sure flies!

Update 5's progression and tidbits

Regarding Update 5, we're still in the writing phase, but things are going smoothly! I can say that Edwin's day will be following a similar structure to Ludwig's day... but at the same time, completely different! Don't think it'll be predictable because of that. In fact, judging from what I see in talks around and what I think people expect, I think a bunch of things will be surprising! I hope you'll all enjoy those. Especially when it comes to the spicy parts... ;)

Alongside the writing, however, the artwork needed for the update is going well. Previews are already going out of the two new characters and they're quickly reaching their completed stage to be all done and ready for their place in the Update!

This includes the two poll winners, first the hyena and second the boar, who will be appearing as new characters in this update. The hyena, Jayden, is the soldier from unit 57-J that, allegedly, found Resnick when he passed out after the ambush. The boar, Boris, holds the role of medic in unit 57-J as a counterpart to our dear Ludwig, and we'll see some of him around as well. I'll say this much, but leave the rest of what they'll be doing to be seen in the update itself. No spoilers! ;)

Now, though these two will certainly twist things up, the focus of the update is still Edwin. This is, after all, Resnick's first opportunity to spend some off-duty time with his tiger buddy ever since all this crazyness started. I wonder could happen... Still, expect a bunch of new expressions and stuff for Edwin as well, just like we saw many things for Ludwig! That's still in the works as well.

Update 5's bonus stuff

Though this time I'm not planning on having anything MAJOR come alongside the update like the Memorium did on Update 4, I'm always trying to add in some improvements that I feel are beneficial to the game little by little alongside the big story updates! For this one, I have a few things planned, but the major one I'm going to try to push alongside this update is a sprite-viewer in the Memorium.

My goal is that, once you've unlocked someone's memories, you can peruse through Resnick's memories of that person in a more visual manner. That is, the ability to see their sprites and variations in the characters' respective memories for those that have them. I wanted to add this WITH the memorium itself, but this is a bit challenging on the coding side to get right and the memorium itself was already a huge ordeal, so I delayed this! I would very much like to get it out this time, though! I think people will enjoy it. ;)

Update 5's super extra bonus stuff

Aaaaaand there's one more extra thing that might just ship with Update 5. As many of you know, before Patreon removed the goals thing, I had CGs as a goal when it grew large enough so that I could afford to have the art budget for it.

It's something that I think makes a game like this cooler and that I've always dreamed of doing! We're going to start slow, and I'm not 100% sure it'll make it into Update 5 just yet (pretty sure though!), but... there's a possibility that we'll be seeing the first CG for Demons Within coming out alongside this update. ;)

For the Edwin lovers, I'm sorry to inform you that the CG will not be of a scene of this update in particular. There are a few major scenes already in the story that I feel would very, very much benefit from a CG! BUT, as a consolation prize for the Edwin lovers, one such scenes IS one that involves Edwin, so you might just get some tiger greatness soon anyway ;)

I'll talk more about this and give previews once we have something more solid, but Blain and I are planning very special things on this regard and I hope we can pull it off as we want to. I'm pretty sure we can! It's gonna be amazing. :)

Alright, I'm gonna cut this devlog here! It's long enough as it is, whew!

The tl'dr is... Update 5 is going smoothly and heck, it's gonna be amazing! Edwin's day has much in store!

Aaaand, as always, thank you SO much for all your support! Couldn't do this without you all! <3