Hello people!!

Today is our 2nd anniversary, but you're the ones that will get gifts!

We have a lot of things to share so buckle up!

Team Updates

Since the last devlog, I have put a lot of focus into finishing the outline of the chapter's story, refining some rough edges, cutting unnecessary fluff, and polishing the arcs of the characters, and I'm happy to announce that I have succeeded! We've also made a huge amount of progress on the script as well; roughly 60% of the game's cutscenes and dialogue are fully written.

We have also gathered some new people to contribute towards the game, specifically with coding and music to replace some missing tracks.

We have also made a progression sheet to help us keep track of what is missing from each area. It's spoiler-free of course, and it will be updated from time to time, you can access it [here]

Game Progress

• Assets - Most assets made have been dedicated to NPCs and characters such as the 3 Chips, Bessie and all of the aircenter enemies.

  Here's some snippets, courtesy of Lettuce!

  
  

• Puzzles/Obstacles - While we finish the script, the coders have been hard at work with puzzles and obstacles! However, I'd like to keep those as surprises for now, some of them might be familiar to you...

  

• Concept Work - We've mostly working on a few NPCs, Enemy Attacks and areas! Here's a few Centown NPCs "Sglare, Bruhorn and Helauze" by the ever talented Mistdrawz!

  

New Songs

As a birthday surprise, we have released 3 new songs! Let's take a look at them.

Starting off with a banger, its the new and improved Mugen Arena battle theme! Made by Geefel, this song plays in the endurance battle at the end of the first area.

This one was made by JeeflyMania, it's Metal Max' chase theme! It plays in two occasions during the Daycare segment.

And to finish off this section, we have the new track for Shop & Fortunes, the Matri Yoshka store.

The Future of FOUNTAINTALE

As most of you may have noticed, it's been 2 years and no sign of a release date has been shown yet. This might make you start thinking:

"Is this game ever going to release???"

...Yeah! Duh! We're working on it!

Being totally transparent, when I made this game not only was I an extremely unexperienced and honestly a terrible leader. I also had no idea we would grow so big so fast; after merely 2 months of the team's creation we were already in Underevent!

We spent basically the entire year focusing on getting a trailer done that we ended up not working on planning the game itself, which led to 90% of the content shown in the trailer to be completely revamped or totally scrapped. (Rest in Piss Sellington)

2024 was a bit better on that regard, but we still went through a LOT of rewrites to avoid scope creep, decrease the game's unnecessarily large size and increase the quality of dialogue and the character arcs.

Which leads us to 2025, we already started the year with a defined outline and most of the script done, all the game's content including enemy attacks, bosses, side quests and easter eggs are already planned out, most of the artists are already working on the missing assets and the coders are already getting all the attacks and puzzles/obstacles down!

However, after evaluating the amount of content in the game we came to the conclusion that it's going to be bigger than Chapter 1 of Deltarune but shorter than Chapter 2.

Due to this, I decided it would be best if instead of releasing a demo containing just the first area, we would only release the game once the full chapter is playable.

This is so we can leave a better impression and a long lasting impact on the minds who play it, the full Chapter 1 experience with no cuts as was intended by me and my team.

"What!!?? But I wanted to play this! When the hell is this game gonna come out???"

Calm down hypothetical passionate fan, I...do not know yet! It's still a bit uncertain, but, if we keep up the pace like this, I would not take a 2025 release off the table. No promises though, be patient!!

"So does that mean we'll have to wait even more without ANYTHING to look at from this project?"

Don't you worry curious and passionate fan that I made up in my head!

We have plenty of cool extra stuff to show you while we quietly develop the game, let me show you:

A Prequel Comic Series - TALES FROM THE FOUNTAIN

As preparation for the game's release, we will be making a Spin-Off comic series that takes place before the game starts!

There will be 5 issues on this first wave. Each issue will be drawn by a different artist of our team and will be focused on a different character.

The first issue is called "A Day In The Life Of Stella".
It tells more about her life in the Abyssal Ruins, it's going to be released somewhere around April-May!

Here's a W.I.P. of this issue's cover! (By DairyousMilch)

"Are the comics going to be canon to the story of FountainTale?"

They are 100% canon to the story but they function as supplemental matterial, meaning that you don't have to read them to understand the story, but they give you more insight to the characters' backstory and personality, showing events that are just suggested or mentioned in the game itself, think of them as a little appetizer while the game is the main course!

"How long are these comics? Are they going to have color? How do you read them?"

The comics have around 5-12 pages at most, you read them left-to-right like a regular western comic and they will NOT have color, only the covers will be colored.

"Can y'all make a comic about (X)?"

We have already have picked the first wave of characters that will get comics dedicated to them, but we are always open to suggestions. We plan to make more on a later date so stay tuned for when that happens!

"Where can I read the comics when they come out?"

Now that's the fun part! We will be releasing the comics at...

The FOUNTAINTALE Website

That's right, we are making a website!

Using Neocities, me and Lex3x have been coding a website that contains lots of cool stuff about FountainTale!

Not only will you be able to read our comics here, but you'll also have features like:

• Detailed descriptions of our characters and world!

• Exclusive concept art!

• Character Q&As!

• Unused/Scrapped content!

• Snippets of the game (Screenshots, Videos and much more!)

• Shuttle.

So stay tuned for news and updates on both of these things! I can actually promise a date for once XD

Closing Remarks

With progress going smoother than ever and new things coming soon, I think I can end this devlog on a positive note!

But first, a few messages from our team members!

"hi ive been here for a few months but this team is cool support this shit right nooooow!" - Lex

“hi! I’m l1zardart1stre, and I’m one of the artists on this game this has been one of my favorite projects to work on; the developers are nice, the project’s amazing, and jill is an insanely cool person! working on this has been a blast, and I’m glad I was able to contribute to this project" - L1zard

“Don’t do school and stay in drugs!”

In all seriousness… “I’m VampVam. Thank you all for your support and follow us for more updates on fountaintale!” - Vamp

"Fountaintale comes earlier than full release of deltarune, I'm telling ya- go support it, GO NOW, AND SUPPORT THESE AWESOME PEOPLE" - Bloodmourn

"Been around since rouxls kaard was in the game, it has evolved so much since then, im proud of the people here and I hope we can give you not only new experience but a good one, look to the stars people and they may just look back." -DairyousMilch

"can someone deliver a meatball sub to my house my address is 5396 North Reese Avenue, Fresno CA (93722)" - c_hompz

"been here like a month i'm carrying" - Jeefly

"Very happy to have had the chance to lay the ground work for this project (not figurative) (literal ground) (a large portion of the tilesets)
Fountaintale tomorrow guys” - Lettuce

"Im glad to be working on this game, i found amazing peoples and for my first work with as a team, it was nice! Even in the hardest times that i tried programming stuff for it, lol. I hope this project becomes true to you all see the effort from this team has ever done" - Bryan The Celestial

"MAMA THE TUBES!!! THE TUBES!!! I SEE THEM WHEN I CLOSE MY EYES STARING DEEP INTO MY BEING! PLEASE ANGEL MAY THE BEINGS ABOVE SLAY THE FOUL BEAST FOR IT GRINDS MY STATE OF MIND

my classic frostbee catchphrase" - FrostBee

"I don't work on this game, I'm just in the dev server. It's still a really cool game though." - danimodder

"Hi, I worked on this project doing some concepts for some characters, most of them changed a lot lol We are working hard on this project and have a lot of exciting things coming up, so thanks for sticking with us" - ToltalyHuman

"If you believe it so, Fountaintale will come out tomorrow, but don't trust a tomato more than a team, stay tuned!" - Paco

“My work on this project has been a bit on the small side, but I’m grateful to be on as wonderful of a team as this. Thanks for sticking around, and I can’t wait for the world to see everyone’s hard work! :D” -OctoBox

"Well, two wacky years have passed, and I've been a fan since day one. I don't remember joining the team. I was out one night after seeing a movie solo style, I took a turn down a dark alley. Something hit me in the back of the head, and when I came to, I was in my room on the Fountaintale team. I hear whispers. Always great to be here, and you have everything thanks to me! All me!" -IndieMedley "Indie" IndieMedley

" HI i do like. writing for this game.. it's super awesome hehe. i'm glad to have been invited to help on this because jill and the rest of the dev team are the BEST!!!!!! I LOVE DELTARUNE AND FOUNTAINTALE!!! thank u all for everything <3 " - mommafrosty

"i made a grand total of three songs and two of them got scrapped" - Thrique

“It’s been over a year now since I made the trailer for Fountaintale and honestly it’s kind of surreal to see. I’m so grateful to be apart of this amazing project and great team. Thank you all for supporting this silly little project!" -The Awkward Kid

"cant believe its already been 2 years. im extremely proud to be co-director (even if i suck at it.) nothing will ever make me stop loving this au and this project, and i cant wait to see it finished!" - Rosaic

"im just hapi to be here with all of these amazing people that are casually making peak over and over again hav a nice day" - Geefel

"Have been in the FOUNTAINTALE team for almost half a year, and I'm loving it. I'm really grateful to be in this team, with absolutely amazing people, all helping make an amazing game. Looking forward to continuing programming for it! " - Eribetra

"i forgot what i was doing" - Lemonemy

"Hello I barely done stuff for this project in a while but I'm just popping by to say that yes I'm still working on it alongside everyone else here. Also Jill still owns me 5 bucks. Hold her accountable for it." - YaBoiNando

"I've only recently joined the Fountiantale team, but it's been a blast to work on!!! Jill's an awesome director, and everyone else here is awesome as well!!!!!" - RazFraz

"Been a part of the team as a coder nearly two years now. It's honestly frickin' crazy to think how much time has passed since then (and to think that one of my first contributions was a test room consisting of a gif of Darth Vader crushing a soda cup dfvbnjk). I'm grateful to be a part of such a wonderful team working together to bring this amazing project to life, and hope you'll all enjoy the game when it releases." - J.A.R.U

"i had a really cool message in mind but it was so cool i couldnt send it" - Arlee McIntosh Ipkiss

"i don't even like fountaintale" - Soul of Thrique

"10/10 experience... oh wait i thought i was writing a review for the game" - Sparkdoubt

"fountaintale made me trans" - Soul of Awkward Kid

"WHERE AM I? WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE???" - Krutch The Sprite Missier

"look behind you." - Soul Of Paco

SHIT IDK WHAT TO PUT IN MY DESCRIPTION YET - MistDrawz

“Hi” - IsaStuff

I belive I talked enough for today, so I'll just say thank you, both to the team who has sticked with me for these years, helping me improve and make my dream fan-game, and to our audience who's always enjoying what we make, we hope you like the comics and the game when they come out!

Thank you for reading, we hope you have an amazing day!