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TS!UNDERSWAP [Undertale Fangame]

Team Switched @teamswitched

1 year ago

Progress Report - February 2023

Hey there!

Welcome to our very first progress report of 2023!

In December, we celebrated the 2nd Anniversary of the TS!UNDERSWAP Demo v1.0 release with our very first "Dev Update" -- sharing our development progress and priorities, some sneak previews, and a Community Spotlight! While we decided against having one last month so we could focus on development and personal responsibilities, we're ready to go for this one!

Let's start!

Progress Updates

In December, we reported our then-estimated 80-90% functional completion of Starlight Isles (likely closer to ~83%) and a potential 26% functional completion of TS!UNDERSWAP!

Over the past several months, our development priorities for Starlight Isles have shifted towards focusing on the major content of Starstruck Village.

We're currently:

Focusing on the script for the final major boss, and implementing everything in-game.
Implementing attacks based on concept art with finished assets.
Creating overworld, environment, and battle assets as-needed for cutscenes and sequences.
Finalizing the second to final major boss fight in-game, including post-fight sequences.

In terms of our general progress since December:

Writing -- We've nearly finished all 3 major route variations of the final major boss's fight script! 2 are completely done, while the 3rd needs a few more lines.
- All pre-fight and post-fight cutscenes are written, with the exception of reset and rematch-based variations.
- Various minor scripts still needed for Stardust Woods have been written.
- A great deal of progress has been made on an interactive character sequence in Starstruck Village.
- Some progress on needed village writing has been made.
- Some progress on needed writing for the transition between Starlight Isles and Crystal Springs, including for each route, has been made.
- Planning and development for Crystal Springs script.
- There's been some preliminary Boreal Bluffs outline work, and important planning for future areas (character information, story events, etc.)
- Partially rewrote an encounter in Ruined Home for better consistency with an important character arc, and Crystal Springs content.
Artwork -- Various overworld, environment, menu, battle, and concept art assets have been made as needed.
- All visual assets currently needed for the Crossbones fight are complete.
- Something very important* was made
Soundtrack -- We estimate that only 7 tracks are left to finish for Starlight Isles!
- Not much progress has currently been made, mostly just discussions regarding what we're going to need -- both for the rest of the area, and some for Crystal Springs.

Programming -- The entire Pacifist / Neutral Crossbones fight has been implemented! There's still some polishing and balancing work that'll come later on.
- There's been a bunch of general polish occurring all throughout the game over time (not actual polish phase content, mostly just random lines of dialogue getting added where needed.)

(*This is the very important thing mentioned.)

That's it for now!

But, before we go... our project's birthday was this month!

The project that eventually became TS!UNDERSWAP (formerly just "Underswap") began public development on February 16, 2016. Seven years later, we're still hard at work!

We've learned a great deal since our initial days, seeing many changes in our design philosophies, project goals, team composition, and knowledge of what game development takes -- and since 2018, we've finally been on track to put a whole fan-game together.

Thank you so much for supporting us! We really look forward to seeing people's reactions to everything we've been working on, when the time comes.

- Beethovenus and Team Switched