December 2023 Monthly Update (Patreon)

Hello lovely patrons!

November was a very busy month, but now that we've hit December we're starting to wind down for the year. It's a great time to look back at what we've done all year and appreciate that all the hard work is worth it!

Lets jump into a quick update on our progress:

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Art

Our lead artist Sinran just finished up on her holiday break and is back to working on CGs. We're still hoping for all art to be complete by April, the month we plan to release in!

We can't show a preview of Ivan's final CG for now due to spoilers, but you can expect to start seeing some Kaine previews soon!

Writing & Editing

I've received the final edited script for Kaine's route from our lovely guest writer Ebihime. We're really pleased with it so far and it's about ready to start being programmed. At the moment, the two of us are working on simultaneously programming Crow and Ivan's routes. We hope that both will be near completion at the end of January.

A Date with Death

A Date with death is releasing in LESS THAN two days! We're working our little butts off at the moment to make sure it's as free of bugs as humanly possible.

Just a reminder - this game is totally free to play! If you want some extra customization, choices and one extra ending though, you can grab the expansion DLC which will launch at the same time.

Click here to wishlist it on Steam! 

Art

All art for the game is complete as of... right now, actually! All base game art was actually finished over a month ago, but since then we've been working on the additional DLC options. Here's a small preview:

Writing & Programming

I can't even begin to stress the progress we made in only a month on these, haha. I was finished combing through day 2 of the game this time last month, and now I've completed my editing pass! All 6 days + endings (day 7) are now complete, edited and working in game. All room activities have been programmed, too.

Basically, writing/editing/programming on the game is complete! What a great thing to be able to write. Lucky, too, considering the game releases in less than two days...

As you can see above, the new character creation screen is now in game, as is the bio maker:

It's been probably the most hectic work month I've had in a long time, but I'm very proud of our effort and what we managed to get done in such a short amount of time.

Makeship Collaboration

We just announced our very first collab with Makeship for a Grim Reaper plush to celebrate the launch of the game!

We're very humbled that they were interested in creating a plushie for a game that's not even out yet... look how cute he is!!!

It'll be available from the 15th on their website, and will only go into production if we get 200 orders. If you're interested, you can sign up to get notified about when it goes live! Once it's gone, it will unfortunately not be purchasable again.

Focus for the next month

We will work minorly on fixes for games/small tasks, but mostly we will be taking the festive season off! Posts here will still be as normal, but dev wise we'll take a well needed break :)

• A Date with Death - Release 7/12/2023

Thanks once again for reading, and I'll see you next month! To those that celebrate, have a fantastic festive season!