~General Progress~

The story behind the game has been finished in a rough form. One of the intro panels was shown at the end of the last devlog, if you want to see. The game page has been updated, too.

~ACT Progress~

Act 1 is now taking an entirely different approach than what we originally had in mind, we've changed quite a few things for it:

• Act 1 is no longer going to be a side scrolling platformer, it'll be a top down platformer.

• The Act 1 battle engine preview from the last devlog is outdated and being entirely reworked.

• Some music for Act 1 has been made.

• Entirely new Act 1 sprites are being made to suit the new gameplay:

  

And, we've made the choice to get rid of the variations. Incase you haven't been following the game for all too long, variations were going to make it so that the choices that you made within Act 1 would end up effecting Act 2. There were going to be 3 different Papyrus fights that you could end up fighting. The choice to scrap these was made because of the time and dedication it would take to make these, and how slowly progress was being made already. However, minor things such as Papyrus' ATK and DEF will still be able to be affected by how you play through act 1, just not the entire fight. Sorry if you were looking forward to that.

Act 2 has had some pretty good progress recently, phase 1 of it is entirely finished, and work on phase 2 has begun.

Also, as you can see from the preview, I've remade my Papyrus sprite for hopefully the last time.

I'm really happy with how it turned out.

And, to go with Papyrus, @goopman_ made a new Gaster sprite, shown below:

Some assets have been made for act 3, but no gameplay for it has been made yet, so I won't be showing any of it.

~Last Words~

It feels like I've just been showing off the same things again and again with these recent progress reports. Minimal act 1 progress, some act 2 progress, and no act 3 progress. My goal is to put out a progress report at least every 2 months with a decent amount of content with it, but I'm not entirely sure that I can, because I'm primarily working on act 2, which I don't want to show too much of.

Oh well. We'll see what happens.

See you next time,

-DBMP.