Branded To Fall Dev Update 29/03/26

Hey Hey!

It's Sunday evening which can only mean it's dev update time! Progress wise, we're looking at quite a few scenes in this one! The new side quest is giant and multiple "quests" long, with several puzzles and gameplay instances. The dark elf in the woods has many new scenes in order to build up his content and learn more about him and what's going. And Balthus is swooping in also with multiple quests/events to really get his content rolling as well. Though Balthus will be a bit more of a slow burn due to the "restrictions" Cam has already negotiated him to be under, I can guarantee you the payoff down the line will be worth it. That also doesn't mean he's not getting in on some fun times still, as you'll very much see this update also. There is more content for more people also, but these ones in particular are chonky so I wanted to give them an honourable mention.

Now, in an act of killing my own updates finite hype economy by talking about the update after this one, let's talk about the recent polls for handling Charlotte and Jen's content over the next two updates. For those who didn't have access to the poll, I asked if people would rather this update be delayed a bit until I finished a new scene for Charlotte and a new scene for Jen so they'd both get content this update, or if they would rather have what I described as an omegaupdate for both after this. The omegaupdate option overwhelmingly won, so that's what I'll be doing. This means that we'll be getting 0.6 in April with all the content I'd already planned for it, and all the content I've already finished, and then after that 0.7 will have a very large focus on Jen and Charlotte content, which I expect will excite a fair few people.

I also now finally have a plugin allowing me to make things bold and italics in the game, which is great so I don't have to keep using * and () for 101 different things! As such you'll notice this used in some of the new scenes (those I wrote after it was implemented). I will go back through old content to use bold and italics in the appropriate spots, but I'm not sure if I'll get time for that this update or not.

Finally on the art front, my wife has again outdone herself with some amazing custom and edited pixel art sprites that look incredible and add so much to some scenes. Especially being able to actually show a dead sprite for some creatures that currently didn't have any. I also figured I'd leave a nice teaser for part of a CG for the dark elf story line which you can see as the banner for this post!

That's all for now! As always, thank you so much for the love and support, and have an amazing week!

-BaconSoap