Recap: October 2026

The road to the Demo continues! So..

🧱 Core

Two-thirds of my month was shamefully sacrificed to an unexpected apartment change. Still, from between the boxes, I managed to work and squeeze in a few tiny little things.

First, Shroomlings.

These little guys are spawned by a Myconid when she enters Rage. Compared to Ifrit’s fire, they’re pretty harmless. They’ll occupy your precious floor space, steal some mana, spread a bit of Nature aura around, and patiently wait for a Maid to deal with them.

Also, with a mighty slap, you'll be able to make them run... until they die.

Nature is beautiful.

The new Save/Load system is also here, which means we can finally keep multiple saves.

Does that make a lot of sense when we currently have one level and old saves often become obsolete after updates? Not really.

Will we absolutely need it later?

Yep.

And then there’s Censorship.

The feature everyone has been waiting for since day one.

You can finally show the game to your family, neighbours, coworkers, priest, tax inspector, or whoever is standing behind you right now.

It comes in two modes:

• Brutal

• Family Friendly (which is even more brutal)

I have no idea if that will be enough to escape the ban hammer on social media. That’s why we’re going to run some tests :)

Lastly, we've done some Toon Shader optimisations. It looks like we managed to squeeze out a few more FPS and may even be able to bring the outlines back.

You know, the feature that looked a little nice when up close aaaand occasionally crashed the game horribly.

Fingers crossed.

🎨 Models & Art

More future creatures have entered the concept phase:

All four are planned to make it into the game. The only question is what exactly they’ll do once they get here.

Pixie and Minaura are still being brainstormed.

And if you missed it, here are the recent brainstorming Quips: https://www.patreon.com/cw/ekiekieki/quips

P.S. Going forward, I’ll probably switch to regular posts for brainstorming. Unfortunately, Patreon doesn’t provide a way to highlight Quips on the main page or add them to collections.

🏃‍♂️ Animation

In short, we were completely surrounded by mushrooms.

At the reception

And in our special rooms

🔮 What's Next

This month I should finally be able to sit down, focus, and work through the remaining list.

Hopefully, we’ll finish all the major tasks from the public roadmap, then spend another week on final testing, fixes, and small adjustments.

If all goes well...

(and when have my estimates ever been wrong?)

...the Public Demo should be live before December 10th.

We’re getting very close to the point where anyone can just press Play and see what all this is about. That’s a big milestone, people.

And that feels pretty damn good ❤️ Thank you all for helping us get this far!