Introducing: Underswap: Puppeteer

Hey. We’ve been radio silent for a while now and I’m sure the more attentive of you have noticed a drastic shift in soundtrack tone, as well as the soundtrack being purged completely.

Although the writing has overgone a massive overhaul if not complete rewrite, As many assets as we could possibly salvage were kept.

A solid 80 percent of the Sprites will remain in place as of now. However, EVERY main character will have a major redesign.

Now, as for the story, the most we can really give out without spoiling anything major is the main premise, so here it is:

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What if the seventh human soul never fell down? What if the true lab experiments continued under funding of the queen and the royal guard as a result? Five years later, Papyrus is a scientist working on the experiments and Sans has finally become a member of the Royal Guard. But Papyrus isn’t happy with what they’re doing. He didn’t know what he was getting into, yet the experiments and their contents caused him to grow more and more traumatized by them, his relationships becoming strained, even with his own brother. In an attempt at “heroism” he began leaking the details of the experiments to the public, causing public outrage. But then, it all went wrong. Monsters were taken off the streets and forced into the experiments as a result of the amount of fallen down monsters decreasing. Citizens, Royal guard members, and even scientists were taken. He went off the deep end after that, detaching from any relationships he has as a precaution for when they may be taken, too. He became cold, manipulative, seemingly uncaring for anyone else’s well being other than his own. And then, he had a plan. If public outcry makes it worse, then maybe he’ll just have to weed out the source of the problem: The Royal Guard, The Scientists, and Queen Toriel. And he might just get his brother involved.

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Now, I know that seems like a lot, but we’ve had a lot going on behind the scenes to make the game new and interesting! So, say goodbye to Dusttrust, because Puppeteer is your new friend and we fucking killed dusttrust sorry.

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Onto the new designs. As of now we only have 3 of the characters' final designs, and the rest are being conceptualized.

The 4 we have consist of

PAPYRUS

SANS

ALPHYS

and ANGEL, the new 7th human soul, who falls down 5 years after CHARA should have fallen down

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On top of this, every area will have at least one new section to explore, such as the city in the ruins and a new pathway in snowdin with a more fleshed out snowdin town based on the concept art from base UT

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And lastly, to go with the release of the devlog, we dropped 2 new songs, both of which are for phase 1 of the final encounter!

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That's all for the devlog this time, see you whenever we have enough progress to make another one

-Factual