Branded To Fall Dev Update 12/06/26

Hey hey!

It's dev updat- WAIT! It's Friday? This isn't dev update day! Well, I'm doing it early as honestly it's a busy weekend and I may be crashing in bed early on Sunday evening, so I figured I'd get ahead of it all and post my update early this week instead.

So this week I've been deep in the sauce as always, progress is coming along well on the Charlotte and Jen update! They've both been very interesting to work on due to both being much more "bold" then before based on where we left off, and also for how this now shifts their relationship with El and Cam, and also El and Cam's perspectives of the "relationships". A prime of example of this you can see in sneak peak I posted in the banner. It's a bit more of an expansion of one I posted before to give a little more away at what's happening. But you can see that Charlotte is certainly upping her game, and upping the risk with how close our favourite Elf is while she's enjoying some time with Cam.

Speaking of Cam, I've been thinking of some ways for him to earn money as well, as at the moment most of the jobs are on El's part due to her needing the money for her main story. However I failed to account for people who only play Cam in this situation, and how they now would have very limited money access with the treasure and hidden money around the map not offering quite enough. Now this did offer me an issue, as Cam is supposed to be finding the tome for Irellia, and if she learnt he was slacking off and shelving some stock at a store for a bit of gold... Well, let's just say she'd have a bit more then just stern words for him. I also can't see Cam thinking it's worth doing some random mundane job just to get money when he see's himself, El and the town in danger, so I've come up with a few ideas that would work for Cam's situation and allow him to make a bit on the side. I'm currently messing around with ideas of him working on contract for the guards to help with patrols or escorting merchants. This would earn him a small bit of cash, and allow him to work in a way that can be seen as useful for both looking for the tome while patroling, and also keeping the town and people safe (along with some potential fun interactions and events along the way). Along with this I'm also thinking he could get some jobs from Darius. While these would be a bit shadier in nature, they'd be presented in a similar, "doing this to help the town or get info" way that would make sense for Cam to accept. The way these work in my head would be a little more involved and possibly limited though, so I'm not entirely sure how to work it as I don't want to basically be implementing an entire smaller games worth of just side gigs to sift through (damn you scope creep!)

On the topic of new systems and scope creep though, the dating system! So, I've planned out a lot for what I want from the system and how I want to make it work, but it's going to be a hefty update given pretty much every corruption route is also going to have potential to be involved. This means art, coding and writing is going to be quite complex as I've said in the past, but it will be more then worth it in the end. The only issue with this then comes the time dedication too it over other content, especially given the next side content poll winner was more bar content. I've mentioned in the past a poll about doing a future omegaupdate again or chipping away at these slowly in the background, but at the moment I want to keep my focus on the current omegaupdate, so I'd expect that poll (along with one about which of these to focus first) after 0.7 drops. I still don't have a set date for that as my lord is there a lot going into this one atm, but I will say if that if it's taking too long I will do an early release with less content then I want in order to make sure the wait isn't too long. Though with progress going as it is, I don't think that will be an issue (fingers crossed).

Finally, I wanted to get a little sappy as I missed making a post about my one year anniversary. I started work on these games as passion projects to make something that I would want to play and only hoped that other people would enjoy them. But over the just over a year I've been doing this, the love and support has been incredible and far beyond anything I ever expected. It genuinely means the world to me to see how many people actually enjoy and look forward to something I'm making, and I can't thank you all enough. Not just for playing my games, but for the community on the discord and forums, the dev streams, the genuine happiness reading peoples comments gives me. I'm just truly grateful for all of you, and thank you for joining me on this adventure. Here's to many more great years and games to come! As always, thank you all so much for the love and support (again!), and have an amazing week! (and weekend!)

-BaconSoap