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Hi!

Today I'm publishing a new devlog post. This post is published late again, and there is an objective reason for that.

As I said before, I've been very sick since mid-December. As soon as I started to recover a bit, my kids got sick. Of course, I couldn't devote as much time to game development as I did before.

During this half of December, I was tired in a way that I hadn't been tired in the entire past year. And on the last day of December, New Year's Eve, my fatigue peaked!

Nothing boded trouble that day, December 31... Now, while writing this phrase, I suddenly realized that it is with these words that many thrillers begin...

In the afternoon, as usual, I put our dinner on the gas stove in the kitchen. I had a few minutes to spare, and decided to just lie down on the bed in my room to relax my back a little... I didn't notice myself falling asleep!

I was awakened by my screaming and crying children! I instantly realized that something terrible was happening! And the smell of burning from the kitchen confirmed my fears!

My fatigue was gone!

As I flew into the kitchen at supersonic speed, I was horrified to see the kitchen furniture on fire!

I still can't understand what caused the fire. Perhaps, after all the water had boiled away from the food being cooked, the pot and pan had gotten so hot that the countertop of the kitchen cabinet adjacent to the gas stove was ignited. This was despite the fact that the kitchen furniture documents stated that all cabinets were made of heat-resistant and fireproof material. Apparently, the fact that my furniture is among the cheapest, and its description does not correspond to reality.

Luckily for me, I keep several fire extinguishers at home. I never imagined that I would ever need these fire extinguishers. But it was these extinguishers that saved us from a bigger trouble.

I was able to put out the fire in seconds. Now, a few days later, I am amazed that I was able to pull myself together in an instant and not panic. After all, I am very timid and indecisive in normal life.

I put the fire out with my own efforts and I didn't even have to call the fire brigade.

There were no serious consequences. But, unfortunately, the furniture and wallpaper in my kitchen were in disrepair.

It took me two days to repair the damage. Of course, I didn't do any game development during those days.

Now all the consequences of the fire have been eliminated. The whole kitchen is cleaned and can be used. A little later, when I have saved some money, I will renovate and buy new furniture. And from now on I will always be more careful so that nothing like this will ever happen again!

It's time to talk about the good things. Before the accident happened, I had time to do a little work on the game. I started adding my old images to the game. These images are scarce now, and so are the locations. But there will be more and more images in the future.

I hung pictures in all locations of the new version of the working build. As soon as the protagonist approaches one of the paintings, a cylinder with an exclamation mark appears above it. At this time, you need to press Enter (or the corresponding button if you are playing on a gamepad) to see the enlarged size-difference picture.

Let me remind you that now I plan to create the World of this game, i.e. build new locations, without adding quests and game mechanics. Such images will be found in all (or almost all) locations.

Last week I was also able to create a new size-difference image. It too will be added to the game at someday, but that will happen much later. I'll add my old images first. Also, in the not-too-distant future, images of the new NPCs that will soon appear in this world will be added.

Unfortunately, I didn't have time to work on my second game again. I'm not going to interrupt the development of my second game at all, and I'll get back to it when I've solved my current problems.

And, I hope, very soon I'll have some new features that will be interesting for everyone who likes my activity.

The working build of the game has been updated. The link is available to active paid subscribers.