SLARPG: General update August 2022 (Patreon)

Hi everyone! Just a quick one for this month. I'll have more news to share very, VERY soon - not a release date or a trailer just yet, but something important and exciting nonetheless. In the meantime, here's a smaller update!

While this has been a busy month, my work on the game itself was mostly relegated to fixing small bugs as private Alpha playtesting continues. That's been going well, although it obviously takes a while for my friends to play the whole game in their spare time. While everyone tests the game and Bee wraps up the last two songs she wanted to punch up for the soundtrack, I've been working on some of the other stuff necessary for release. There's much more to successfully releasing a game than simply making the game, after all!

For this game, that includes the prologue comic! I bet a lot of you forgot about that, huh? As a refresher, I promised to put out a SLARPG prologue comic as a stretch goal waaaayyy back when I launched this Patreon. For a while I was planning on releasing it alongside the demo, but I set the 90% finished script aside to focus on making the actual game. Well, now the game's almost done. The time has come. I dusted off the script, finally finished it... and sent it off to the artist.

That's right! I'm enlisting the help of someone else who actually knows how to draw comics, as opposed to me spending two months trying to do everything myself. (I'll still be coloring it, though.) I'm pretty stoked about this collab, but we're only at the thumbnail stage, so I won't say more just yet. Regardless, I plan on releasing this 12-page comic on Twitter and Tumblr to help introduce people to the main cast and build hype in the days before the game is released.

And that's all for this month! As always, thank you for your continued support, and stay tuned for something more exciting in the coming days.