OooOOoooOOoo!

So, time for an update on the next chapter. Work is progressing, though not as fast as I'd like. I was sick for most of one the last three months, and lost all of this week to holiday and extended family stuff (will probably lose one in November too). I was especially freaking out due to how little I had to show vs my first update post for GutterTrash. Then I realized that one was FIVE months in, and we're only three, and I need to chill.

All that said, I have got SOME stuff done. A lot of it things I can't really show off: continued refining of the story, the theming and mechanics for this first section (I was bleh on it at first, but I'm really starting to get into what I've got now), and starting to gather a few odds and ends like new tilesets. I've also FINALLY settled on a name, though as usual I'll save that for launch.

I have been working on art assets as well though, and I do have ONE thing to show you all from that. Fair warning though: as always, I encourage ignoring these drops entirely and just going in blind when the game launches. But a lot of incredible people support me on a monthly basis during development, so I have an obligation to show my work, and prove I haven't dropped off the face of the earth etc. Long story short, your choice whether you want to spoil yourself or not. If not, you can leave now. If so, keep scrolling!

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A lot of people are doubtless excited to see answers to a number of things raised in the last game. Who's the mysterious individual talking to Mahir and pulling strings? What does the tower look like and what are its denizens like? What techno horrors lurk within? All of these questions will be answered-

In Chapter 4.

Chapter 3 is a bit of a detour. Without spoiling too much, through an odd series of events, Mezz suddenly and inexplicably finds himself not in the ruined shopping district he was digging through, but a strange and vast mansion. A storm rages outside, and inside things seem odd, doors where they shouldn't be, passages that loop. Eventually he finds his way out, to another, also strange place. But before that, deep in the heart of the mansion, he meets someone. And of course, rather than keeping things simple and just doing a standee, I made the thing a whole scene.

This is what I've been calling "Panther" in my notes. He DOES have a name, several actually. I just don't know them yet. He also has a way with words, and a very...piercing gaze. Mezz has a very...interesting conversation with him.

That's all for now though. I hope to have most or all the art assets (aside from the cg) done in the next two months, but we'll see. That's alll for now though.

Yup.

Oh wait, what's this? Is there something else here in the upload folder?

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Huh, look at that.

Happy Halloween!

OOooOooooOoo!