Progress for the demo is going extremely well. As stated in our previous post: Aldertune has finished writing its first planned part!

WHAT'S TO COME?:

Well, for the most part, we're trying to make sure everything's at the utmost solid before we start showing everything. Yesterday, we finally worked on our first set of shopkeeper sprites and textboxes, haha.

Lots of silly things are planned. Curious, though-- do you folks like rhythm games?

Ah, no matter, hehe.

Seems that our CHA stat kinda sucks regardless.

WHAT ARE YOUR CONCERNS WITH SUCH AN AMBITIOUS PROJECT?:

Me, like any anxious newb head dev, worries about one thing:

Getting to see what you've wanted to make becomes popular, only to lose steam midway. It's why I don't wanna rush these things. Since the game is projected to be longer than, say, UNDERTALE and DELTARUNE itself ( longer 'chapters', more to explore. ), so it's gonna take a while for everything to come out. Our demo's projected to come out Mid-2024 with the sheer progress we've made, but compared to other longform fangames, we're shortstaffed.

Furthermore: I'm worried that people won't like some characters, or they'll compare some folks together. A shopkeeper we're meeting in our projected demo might get compared with someone who isn't even in Aldertune as a cameo (...yet.), or Aris might get compared to Frisk. ( It's happened before. )

BARK-BARK!:

That...isn't a question.

...:

Ah, I'm running out of what to say.

With love,

-- ALDERTUNE DEV TEAM.