Branded To Fall Dev Update 02/08/26

Hey hey!

It's August already! (Where does the time go?) Which means we're getting ever closer to the update. I'm in the full testing swing now which is always an exciting and fun time as it means I get to see the people I test with reactions to the scenes and everything that's gone into the update itself! So far the testing is going great in catching my usual dyslexic mess of spelling and also a good few bugs due to the sheer amount of new triggers and event squares on maps that there was bound to be a bunch of little bits we'd find.

The main writing is all done for the update, but there's a few small extras I still want to get added in this week. I don't expect them to take too long or be too much of a hassle, so I'm not particularly worried about any timing issues.

Art wise, Zutte has been smashing it, and I have all of the still art for the update complete. She's working on the last two animations now. I expect all my testing and last little extras I want to sprinkle in, will be done by the time I have the animations, so once I get those, it'll be go time on releasing the update! (After I've implemented them into the scenes and tested them of course.) This does mean I'm in a bit of a Schrodinger's update situation where I cant give any specific date other then, it should drop a day or two after the animations are finished, which I'd estimate at roughly a week or two baring any issues. (Fingers crossed).

I've tallied up all the CG's and animations for this update and it's a hefty one for sure. I won't go into too many details yet as we're so close to the finish line I don't want to start dropping spoilers now, but I think everyone will be very happy with a hefty helping of content to get their teeth into. There's also going to be some extra surprises in this update to look forward too, but again, that's all I'll say on that. Just want to be a tease and build the hype XD.

Finally, I want to give a huge thank you and shout to one of the supporters, skinny, who commissioned the amazing banner art you can see on this post from the super talented Prof Lambeo! I was not expecting this at all, and to receive such an awesome and amazing bit of fan art is genuinely incredible, so I wanted to share it with everyone here as well!

That's all for this week, I'll be getting back to the testing mines and into writing those last few extras I want to squeeze in. As always, thank you all for the love and support, and have an amazing week!

-BaconSoap