HOLY MOLY, A REAL LIFE TRAILER?!

It's been a crazy ride, right? So let's talk about the Pal Percy in the room, or... I guess, WAS in the room. We have a trailer out now! This reveals a plethora of things, such as some wicked cinematic shots by yours truly (alongside the help of @jennybastard and @SoggySoup ), new snippets at gameplay, and, well, you probably already know the last one, we just can't exactly talk in detail about it!

This is probably going to be the only trailer for awhile, hence why we're announcing that you can expect to see the game sometime in 2023! It's a bit far from now, but we're confident that's what we'll get done. Speaking about that...

CHANGES SINCE YOU LAST SAW US

We've made a lot of improvements to the actual game since you've last (properly) heard from us. While it was a bit of a bumpy road, it's been smooth sailing for the game! I'll present some of the changes we've made with handy images, so firstly...

Here's a more proper look at one of the new menus! This one is the Custom Hour menu, initially revealed on the launch of the game page. We just generally wanted to remove the cluttered feeling of the menu, so we made it a proper "sub-menu". But even then, the new menu looks like it could fit some more slots...

Another good one is the changes we've made to the Post Night sections of the game. This one (which is named Auction Automation, by the way) was probably the one to get the most changed about it. Among some obvious changes like certain UI elements, there's also some other, brand new changes that we added. We did these changes to make each Post Night not only feel different from one another, but to make them less "Do X while turning around to deal with Y". So we did. There are now threats in front of you.

The last change I want to show (or that you've already seen thru the trailer) is the new jumpscare for Percy Poodle! We took a lot of the feedback from the "Devlog 2" post I made featuring it, as well as from other places like Twitter and my Discord Server. We're generally happy with how this new one looks, and we hope you guys liked it as well. The best part is though you only saw Percy in action, we actually have 4 / 7 jumpscares fully DRAWN, I'll let you decided who those 4 are, you already know one of them!

THE FUTURE OF PERCY'S

This one is complicated to talk about. I, personally, understand the bumpy road this game has taken to get this far. From the juggling of weather to have voice acting or not, dropping Fangame Direct to then only rejoin it, and other smaller things that kept pilling up into some big clump of mentally insane shit oozing different colors, primarily the color green.

All of this sounds cliché, I know. But it's true. While I'm better now and a lot more happier, I wasn't before. I shouldn't have let my emotions get the better of me through out certain instances, I should have known my place and not instigate stuff, and I shouldn't ESPECIALLY had have that seep into the very active development of my own passion project me and my friends are making. All of this to say, that I am eternally grateful for the (honestly shocking) amount of support I've received since the publication of this game. All the fan-art, videos, and works are honestly super incredible! Even if you think I'm "faking" what I mean by this (I know someone is), it's true! I always go out of my way to express how much I care about this community I've grown, and here I am doing it.

Playtime with Percy still has a long way to go until it's fully finished, but we're slowly chipping at it every day. This January is actually going to mark the 1 YEAR since Percy's has been in dev, crazy right? Anyway, all I ask is for people to hopefully check it out when it releases. We have a lot planned, and I'm trying my best to make sure this game is as good as it can be. I have a lot of beta testers, and a lot of them love how the game is turning out, we hope you do as well.

That's about it from me, I don't know when I'll post another update, but I just wanted people to know how the game is coming along.

But that's all, make sure to keep your PAL, Percy in check.

• Fazie Funbear