Hi everyone!

Chapter 4 will be released in 6 days! I honestly can't believe it myself but I'm excited for this big release. This will be the last post before Chapter 4 is released.

Graphics and game optimization:

Last time I talked about working on better optimization. I worked even more and the results are even better! I was talking about 80-100fps results before but now it can be up to 130fps. Of course very weak and old hardware will still have problems but I hope the game will work better on your computers now.

I also took care of the graphics of the game. I think Henry's Son has pretty good graphics, but I'm still aiming for the best possible results. I'm sure it won't be a huge graphical leap, but rather a refinement of what's already there. The game now has an even better atmosphere than before :)

What you can expect from Chapter 4:

Chapter 4 is another chapter in the story of David. The size of this chapter is similar to that of chapter 3 so it will be a big chapter!

In chapters 1, 2, and 3 I focused on the gameplay and atmosphere of the game. Chapter 4 continues this focus, but now I will mainly focus on the storyline. In terms of gameplay, I can say that there are a lot of new mechanics, such as item creation, walking in vents, and repair mechanisms.

I wanted Chapter 4 to be playable multiple times, so I also added choice options. I'll admit right away that there aren't a lot of them, since I'm the only person working on the game and have to take care of every aspect of it. Still, the choices are very important to the gameplay. Depending on what you choose, you will visit different locations, solve new puzzles, and fight for your life with other characters. Oh, did I mention new characters? Yes, there will be new characters. Additionally, I can reveal to you that there will be more escape sequences that you know from chapter 3. The ink demon will not be your only concern.

Final teaser for chapter 4:

Other things:

I will soon start the testing phase of the game to make sure that the game will not have any bugs or errors. (Chapter 4 fixes many bugs from previous chapters anyway).

It's more of a technical thing, but I removed many files that weren't used in the game.

The game with chapter 4 will take about 900MB on gamejolt but I'm not sure about that.

Chapter 5:

Due to the game being broken for over a month, chapter 4 has been delayed. Almost 3 months ago I said that I was working on chapter 4 and 5 simultaneously. Unfortunately this has changed. Now I'm only working on chapter 4 so there won't be any further delays. As for chapter 5, I was working on it for about 3 weeks at the time, but it's not much.

Thank you for your patience :)

I realize that a lot of people want to see another chapter of Henry's Son. I know that chapter 3 was released at the end of August last year and so it has been a tremendous amount of time since the release of that chapter. There were two updates along the way but they were just fixes/improvements and didn't bring new content to the game.

Well see you on March 30th with the next chapter of Henry's Son!