Hello! It's been a few months, hasn't it? Let's get right to it, then.

New Branding.

Yes, your eyes aren't playing with you; we've rebranded Hypocrisy to a much more fitting name. This name was submitted by none other than @Fax0086 , who has been given a position in the team for her interesting ideas. From now on, this game is no longer Dustswap: Hypocrisy, it's now DUSTTRUST: Deluxe.

Now, onto gameplay.

Phase 1.

First of all--Phase 1 is almost complete. All the attacks, dialogue, music have been made. And, as you can see, the background got a mini-glowup inspired by one of the official DillyWolf-era Pre-Leak battle concepts, shown below.

(This can be found in the official Dusttrust discord server and this concept was made by Nik2656!)

We're currently working on fixing the current Hypocrisy sprite, but if there's a demo build, (which I'm absolutely considering) it'll more than likely use the one shown in the start of the devlog.

All of these attacks have been confirmed no-hittable by the one and only-- @QuinUT ! The Hypocrisy team applauds his efforts and he has earned a Puar. (None of you know what that means but folks in the team will understand.)

Long story short--Phase 1 is complete! Onto Phase 2.

Phase 2.

Decent amounts of Dusttrust Pre-Leak takes scrap Maniac's Revenge and the elements that lead up to it. I'm a huge fan of Maniac's Revenge (if that wasn't made painfully obvious several years back) and believe it's a crucial part to what makes Pre-Leak identify itself as Pre-Leak.

So, the form of Phase 2 has been kept unaltered, but we're finding ways to make it as good as people felt it was in 2020, without scrapping the theme that I felt made it scream "Hey, we're in phase 2 now! You're gonna die!"

The current Phase 2 is very bare-bones in terms of actual graphics, as the current sprite is a placeholder (made by yours truly) in impatience to the actual Phase 2 sprites production. Maybe Phase 2 will be more complete by Update 3?

Phase 3.

This one's a toughie to work with, we're stuck in conceptual phase since we're intending on a 3 person collab for the song.

We don't have sprites or any coding progress since we don't have music.

In short:

Phase 4.

We still haven't even started on this yet.

Once again, in short:

Conclusion.

All in all, we've been cooking a bunch of stuff since our last update, and we're already 30% complete! I expect a demo release at some point between Christmas and Valentine's Day, so stay tuned!!!

While you wait, consider following object-based games like: LIMELIGHT, UNDER DREAM ISLAND, and it's SEMI-OFFICIAL DISBELIEF COUNTERPART! They may be based on object shows, most of which are targeted to a young audience, but I promise you they have so much to offer!

Anyways... Have a great night!