Update 5 devlog: it draws near! (Patreon)

Heeeeey folk!

Alright! Time for another little devlog to keep you all up to speed on how things are going!

I'm pleased to be able to say that all the writing for Update 5 (up to half or, well, 70%-ish) of Edwin's day is closed, reviewed, and complete! The art is pretty much done as well with Blain and I working on the last few adjustments up until yesterday.

This has been one of those weeks where I work like a madman to try to turn all the material into visuals through coding to get it all done! I did a whooole bunch of it this week and I'm happy to say we're almost there! I only have a few more sections to code up and then tidy it all up before we get to the beta.

When?

I'm not exactly ready to give out dates just yet, but I'm shooting for the beta version of Update 5 to come out next week with the full Patreon version following a few short days later! I'm working hard to make that happen!

What?

I had a whole list of features set to release alongside Update 5 and I still plan on including as many as I can within Update 5 in itself and, whatever I feel isn't fully ready yet, will just be delayed until Update '5.5' that should come shortly after 5.

One thing that I can confirm will be debuting with Update 5, though, is the CG! That part is already mostly done as well with all of the special things surrounding it and it'll definitely ship right now! I hope you all will enjoy it! I know it's not as exciting as it could be given that the moment the CG represents already passed, but trust me when I say that this has opened the doors for a lot of cool stuff in the future! ;)

Along with that, all of the immediate bug fixes and other new small things will definitely come. What I'm not sure will be there is mostly the sprite viewer in the Memorium, as that is *quite* challenging and I have some special ideas for it. If I tried to push it into this one, it'd probably delay it a bit more, so I'll probably leave it for the next one. We'll see, though!

Overall, though, thank you so much for the support, as always! We're almost there now!