Hello everyone. Sorry that it's been 9 months since my last development update on Requiem - Since I lasted posted I was under a lot of duress, but fortunately development has been able to get back to it's normal pace recently!

In the last few months I have now finalized the story and finished the last of the games mechanics. This included some fairly intensive User Interface work to create a proper threaded conspiracy board, a whole lot of time spent making dialogue boxes for the daytime, and a nice chunk of carefully stacked Jenga Towers of code to support the fact that I didn't have a way to script narrative events during the night before.

Now, will the game be done in time for Halloween?

No.

Will it be done in time for the FNAF2 Movie?

Quite possibly.

So, what's left?

1) Toy Chica, Golden Freddy, and "The F.U.N. Gang" 3D models, rigging, and animation

2) Extras Menu (Dev Notes, Cheat Codes, Custom Night Challenge links)

3) Re-Do the first two nights to be a better tutorial

4) Music Overhaul

5) Voice Acting

6) Menu Icons

7) Bug Fixes

8) Polish

Fortunately, I am certain that all but step #1 will be finished by December. The framework for most of these is already completed. Voice actors are decided for all roles, TaylorCaptAl has been contributing an original soundtrack to the project (I've posted a sample of his music for the game to the GameJolt page), The Extras menu just needs to be linked to the custom night challenges for unlocks, BriaKitten wants to finish the UI that they built already, and fortunately I've managed to avoid any form of high instability in the night segments, leaving almost exclusively glitches in UI, lighting, and typos.

So, what does that leave for models and animations? I'm not a skilled 3D modeller or animator and as such it takes me about 2 weeks per character to model, texture, rig, and animate them - something that can't be done for 3 of them in time for a release by December while finishing out the rest of the game. As such I've been looking for help on the finishing out the models for the project.

Fortunately this project has never been truly solo and both JeffTheHamster and Clover want to help with completing out Toy Chica and "The F.U.N. Gang" respectively. While I might be able to finish Golden Freddy in time for December as well, if anyone has a Golden Freddy model that they would like featured in the game - or to create a new one - then feel free to message me. ^_^

With the confirmation neither I nor the project are dead, have a wonderful Halloween everyone!