Hey everybody!!! You’ve never heard from me in one of these before, but I’m Kaiden, the co-owner in charge of anything plot related! I’ve been here since the start, and I’ve gone by many names and phases, which is a parallel I sort of see within myself and this project. Deltafell is a project that has also gone through many changes, whether it be through many re-sprites, countless re-compositions, or a painful amount of rewrites. Regardless, our baby has survived through everything we’ve thrown at it — and we intend to keep it that way! Without further ado, let us begin the devlog!

[Newi here too helping with certain sections hi guys!! Any comments I have to add will be marked with the [] brackets!!]

OVERVIEW

While we haven’t gotten AS MUCH done as we would have liked (as it is exam month for many of us), we still have made a good amount of progress! 

[We still have had massive breakthroughs this month, as you will soon see. For now though, more sprite updates for the main duo, both spritesheets for them have been updated but there’s examples down below:]

[sprites by forrest4th]

[sprites by snowyboi64, forrest4th, & @Newi ]

SPRITING:

We mentioned a major breakthrough that happened this month, so here it is: the official Swamp tileset, brought to you by the one and only Cozy! You may have seen her posts on Twitter, as well as her former Chapter 3 take Dashdot!

[or from this project if you're really cool]

[Illumoth sprites have also been updated now to reflect the concept art better which is awesome!! Here’s them in game along with a V1 vs V2 comparison!]

[Illumoth V1 by daymations, Illumoth V2 by zafall167]

WRITING:

Of course, the writing process has been very slow, as January has been a busy month for me specifically. However, here are a few snippets we would like you to see!

Here is an example of how the characters would interact! 

[by Kaiden]

In our interpretation of Deltafell, we want to emphasize choice, and how you treat characters really matters. Take this how you will.

[not to say it'll be a complete rehash of things we've already seen, there's many different ways interpretations can go...]

[by magsreturns]

CODING:

[Coding has gotten massive strides over the last month demo-wise, not much I can show publicly other than a few snippets!]

[coding by @_pancakez ]

MUSIC

In our last devlog, we mentioned nearly all music being completed for the demo! However, some tracks beyond the demo are being worked on as well. Because music uploading has been so scarce, we have decided to release one of these just for you!

[First area theme!!]

CLOSER:

While this month has been a little slow for us, we’re glad to have finished as much as we have! Happy new year, and see you in the next devlog!

[Want to apologize too for this one taking longer to come out! See you next month!]

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