Demons Within: December devlog and progress

Hey hey!

First of all, I'd like to thank all the new patrons that decided to throw a few bucks the way of this project. I've been working on it with all my passion and seeing people start to enjoy it, especially enough to give it some support, means the world to me! The support is very much what's making me work on this pretty much full time still possible and I'll keep doing my BEST to continue to put the most of me into it! As I've said before, I have many plans for awesome things in the future and I couldn't be more excited to get it all done! :D

That being said, let's move on to the two main points of this post...

Life updates

The first is a life update. I know this is a bit personal and usually I don't like to be this personal in here, but I also like to be as transparent as possible! 

This very week (on Wednesday!) I'm moving. In real life! I'm moving from my country of origin, Brazil, aaaaall the way to the cold wastelands of Canada in a more permanent fashion (hopefully). As you can all imagine, it's quite a big change! I've been juggling things around even while still developing Update 2 to get it all ready for the move, but now that it's here... oh boy. It's been keeping me quite busy, but hopefully once I successfully get there and all is settled, things will calm down and I'll be able to focus more on work. Of course, there'll be the process of, well, discovering an entirely different life there, but I have no intentions of slowing down my work regardless! I'll do the best I can to keep going.

Still, I wanted to let you all know. This plus the end of the year might delay me some, but I'll get through it!

Game updates

I'm sure that most of you are reading this for this section! Update 2 for DW was already a resounding success in my book. I'll release it to the public in a few weeks sometime in January but in the mean time I've gotten a lot of awesome feedback from you all that tried it in Patreon.

I've been thinking and sketching out Update 3 pretty much since... well, kinda before 2 was even finished! I'm already working on it, I already have it planned and I already settled with Blain to start working on the new artwork for it (WIP previews soon!). It's on its way! It likely won't be as grand as Update 2, but Resnick needs a little break! I'll share more details about the content of the update itself as they get done. The story has its own pacing, but the game has many areas that I still want to improve.

In the update 2 devlog on itch I detailed a few future things I want to get in the game and, while of course I can't do it all in THIS next update, I plan on starting to get to them ASAP and put as many in as I can alongside the new story in order to make things better and even more awesome. Some of the things I got planned are:

• A 'memory' gallery that allows the player to:
  • Review any memories they have 'unlocked' through the game from the menus
  • Re-watch scenes, especially spicy ones, recalling them from Resnick's memories once they've been seen and unlocked so that the player doesn't have to reach that part of the game to see and read through it again.
  • Access bonus content and unlockables
• Further improve the game's interface with more visualization and information that is relevant, especially involving the Essence Wheel
• Implement an autosave feature that saves automatically at key points of the game so the player has easy return points even if not manually saving
• Improve the bad ending screen, results and further build upon them (big plans here!)
• Improve other interface elements that are either not very practical or not looking very good in either version of the game

Keep in mind that, as we go, plans might change, but for now this is the start of my ambition! The more urgent improvement I'm looking to do is the 'memory gallery' as I feel like that's gonna be an important part of the game. I still don't know if I'll be able to manage to build it up entirely for Update 3, but I plan on trying! I have some ambitious plans for it and I hope you all are going to like it. I'll give previews of it as well as I build it to see what people think!

Conclusion

Welp. As usual, this post has gotten big enough, I think, so I'll wrap it up here. I hope you all enjoyed the small update on what's in development and what's coming. Again, apologies for getting personal, but I'm going through a big change in my life and I thought it fair to let you all know it might affect things here a little bit, even if I'll try to keep it to a minimum! Update 3 is in the works and it'll continue to be. x)

Again, thank you all for supporting me and making Demons Within and everything else not only possible, but also increasingly more awesome!