Hey there! I don’t post dev updates here often, but I figured if I post them on reddit, I might as well post them here, too. So here’s my update for December!

As I feared, December was not quite as productive as it could have been (it never is) but it was still a reasonable month in terms of getting things done. The good news is that we’ve finally got everyone together and are ready to go ham on the Arc 2 assets.

Production & Programming
Julian, our composer, said that he’d be happy to return to compose a few more tracks for the game. It won’t be a ton of new music - just enough to break it up a little - but knowing Julian, what we get will be great. I’ve gone back and forth with him to hammer out the details of the agreement and the new tracks. Unlike art, the music won’t be filled with spoilers so I may be able to share a bit before Arc 2’s release. No promises, though!

Simon, our CG artist, is abroad and unfortunately cannot contribute to Arc 2. However, he referred me to his colleague Evan as a replacement. Evan’s a great artist and you can check out some of his work here.

The current plan for Arc 2 is to hurry up and finish episodes 18-22 (or 23 depending on how I break up some of the writing) and try and get those out as soon as possible, then enter a development again and get the remaining episodes finished up by end of year or early next year. I’m going to keep everything in a single binary unless something catastrophic happens.

Writing & Puzzles
I went back and wrote some more of chapter 21. It’s still not quiiite done, but I still have today and tomorrow to finish it and I think I should be okay. Puzzle design also took a backseat this month while I worked on some personal stuff that’s due in February. It’s not Exit/Corners related but getting out of the way now will save time down the road.

Art & Music
Character Sprites - Anodesu has been working away on some more sprites. It’s the holidays, so it wasn’t super-duper productive, but she’s still on track to get everything ready in time for Arc 2.

Backgrounds, CGs & Music - See Production. Now that the team’s all together we’ll be moving forward with these other assets. I will hopefully have more to share with you soon!

That’s all for now! For those curious, the original copy of this blog post can be found here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ExitCorners/comments/7n36qe/arc_2_development_update_december_2017/

I’d recommend following the game on reddit/twitter/Discord if you haven’t already! Those three platforms generally get news/updates before any other.

‘till next time!