(copied from Patreon, will start posting my dev updates on itch too!)

Hello! This will unfortunately be the last status update for January, because as I mentioned in these past 2-3 weeks, there's a lot of irl stuff to do soon.

I'm planning a "relocation" later this year and it's pretty ambitious (going to move a very long distance away), so next month I'll be searching for rent/properties around where I plan on moving and I also want to see what it's like out there during the winter.

I realized that I'd rather be working rather than be on the run, away from my PC, because I've been productive lately and I can come up with more creative/comedic dialogues (at least according to me, hopefully you feel that way too 😅) but I can't really cancel this trip because it was booked about 6-8 months ago and the plane tickets are very expensive, so I'll try to make the best of it.

I hope you can understand this and because I feel bad about going away for almost a month I did a lot of extra work this month to feel better about myself, not leaving you in a content drought. (and as such we now have Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 released with only Part 3 needing a bit more side content like minigames so it won't be too short compared to the rest of the parts, which is why Part 3 will officially release in March even though the scene and most of the relevant content for it is already released in Part 2)

At the same time this month I believe we actually have a relatively "smooth" experience as players are managing to reach the end of the current content and there have also been optimization improvements to help reduce battery life usage on mobile phones and help slower devices reach a consistent 60FPS thorough the game as well.

So this will be my status update for a while, but I will release a poll soon and I'll continue planning content for the city while I cannot directly work on the game. One of the other things I'm working on right now is adding more expressions for the crew.

I wish you a great end to this month and I hope I'll get some time to write more from my phone while I'm away, maybe I will make a breakthrough for the planning of the game and keep you updated with it and possibly even seek feedback for future content! (such as the incoming poll)