January 2022 Monthly Update (Patreon)

Happy new year, everyone!

Last year (or well, the last two years...) have been a serious trial, and you've all been very patient.  We really appreciate that!

That's why we're so pleased to finally announce that The Divine Speaker will be released in March 2022. We'll be updating various social media to reflect this.

However, this isn't without some drawbacks. At first, TDS will be released without voice acting, and we will be adding it once it's complete. As it turns out, directing, editing and coordinating such a big cast for our live sessions takes a lot of time, and we still have Fawn and Leos route scenes to record.

We'll be trying our hardest to get it out as quickly as possible. At the moment, the full common route (120,000ish words) is complete, as well as Cyne's route (another 60,000ish words). We're still deciding whether to release that voice acting with the initial build, or to cut it until it's all complete.

Anyway, the full game should soon be in your hands!

About time we got onto an update:

Art

Fuyuure is still working on CGs for the three routes, so lets look at some non-spoilery previews:

Programming & Voice Acting

Cats on a Lilypad Studio are currently finishing up the editing for Cyne's route. Now that we're in the new year, we'll start up the recordings for the Leos route next!

Once we're handed back the complete Cyne build, we'll be adding in a bunch of new CGs + working on the final credits, and then it will be released as a beta before the March game release.

CuriousCat

We can answer any questions you have about the game or game development through our blog and Curiouscat.

You can leave your questions here!

Focus for the next month for TDS

Here's our focus for the next month:

• CG creation
• Audio editing

Amelie

In December we launched Amelie on Steam! Knowing very well our audience is here for BL, the fact we marketed the game very little, and it's a short game, we didn't expect any HUGE sales or anything, but we're so happy to announce we've already sold over 400 copies of the game with great reviews and made our money back and then some! We're super thrilled about this.

If you've purchased the game on Steam, please leave us a review!! They really help, and we get extra visibility once we hit 50.

Check it out here! 

Other projects

In 2022, we want to work on many more games, especially ones that will release faster! Trust me, waiting for TDS to be complete makes me very impatient myself. Working on our YuriJam project and completing a full game in two months was an amazing experience. 

So, in 2022, our goals are to release TDS and start work on a new large game, which we hope to have finished in much less time. Alongside this, we plan to create some shorter games as well, some for game jams, some not. We plan to enter YaoiJam this year, too!

With TDS at the stage of "waiting for work to be complete by others", we have a lot of time to think and plan for the future, so we'll have some really cool things to show very soon ;)

Thank you all!