OL2: Demo Plans

Hello everyone!

Since the demo updates are gonna be different going forward, I wanted to make a whole post about what to expect. Typically, we'd make little updates to round out what's in the demo better while still keeping it (somewhat) demo-sized. Now though, we're going over the top. We want to use the demo to give our players something fun to spend their time on! If that makes it a confusingly long demo, that's alright.

The next demo update will happen Fall 2025! And that's because it will include all of this:

-The Step 1 Moment "Fancy Fun" (already in the beta)

-The rest of the Step 2 prologue (it's the length of two Moments, not yet in beta)

-The Step 2 Moment "Assistance" (not yet in beta)

That is four times larger than a typical demo update and a ridiculous 110,000 words of new content. Also, this is in addition to what's already there, so in total we'll have a demo with two full prologues and four entire Moments.

So, what does that mean for the beta testing build? All that upcoming content will be released in the beta first before it becomes public later this year. And even after the major demo update, the beta will still have more than twice as much content as the free demo (several more Step 1 Moments and the ending of Step 1) and the beta will continue getting more Step 2 Moments while the demo does not. It's still very much worth the while!

We're hard at work getting more and more programming/writing done each month. Step 1 is so close to being finished, but it'll take a while to make major progress into Step 2 being playable. I'm looking forward to when we can share a bigger picture of the OL2 experience with everybody 😄