WE'RE BACK!! AND FASHIONABLY LATE!!!
(Considering my track record, this shouldn't be too surprising..)

Wow. It's been, what, around FIVE MONTHS since we pushed out that original demo for Halloween? What terrifying secrets could we have crafted in that time?!
Not that much, honestly.

RADEELNUT (referred to henceforth by its internal name of EELS for sanity purposes) has mostly been on pause since then. A few ideas have been tossed around, a few even got put in. But starting soon, we'll be back proper. We got plans.. big plans.
So why the wait? Be prepared: while these devlogs shall be a monthly-or-so occurrence, this first one will be especially ~~thiccque~~.

I'll mostly be talking the same talk when people ask where other projects are:

1. We're working on other stuff too! A LOT!
In the period between the original EELS demo and today, members of the team contributed to and released:
• FNF: Starlight Mayhem Rebooted (Week 1 Remaster + Bonus Week)
• The Ultimate Group Chat Game: Reposted
• Makeship CJ Plush (no, seriously. we made a plush. you can't buy it anymore though.)
• Your Painfully Average Self Insert FNF Mod: Vs. TheMaskedChris

And do remember that we're working on EELS ALONGSIDE many other projects like WDY: Aftermath and plenty of other things that I'm not even allowed to talk about yet.
Also.. we're human. We have lives. Most of us are still tackling school and such. And most importantly, good god, do we get exhausted quickly.

So now that that's out of the way, what the heck are we planning to do now?

Once we start up development again, first order of business is porting everything over to the latest version. When we did the Halloween demo, we worked off the assumption that Deltarune wouldn't be updated again until Chapter 3.
We were wrong.
So now we have to MANUALLY port everything over from 1.8 to 1.10.. very slowly.

BUT! This is a good excuse to do something I wanted to do anyway, and that's a lot of cleanup. A big issue with distributing mods through Game Jolt is that any copyrighted assets can and often WILL get your mod banned (another overhaul mod, RIBBIT, suffered a similar fate with its demo, but it made it out alive in the end. you should play it by the way! it's alarmingly good). Reorganizing everything - putting all new assets into a single spritesheet instead of multiple, etc. - helps both reduce the size of the mod to make it easier to download/upload, but it also greatly reduces the risk of getting the mod banned, as any copyrighted material like sprites or code would be kept to an absolute minimum.

AFTER THAT.. we can get to the fun bit. New stuff!
There's a lot of polish to be done on Chapter 1, including adding in things originally scrapped for time.
Once Chapter 1 is in near-perfect shape, we're thinking of sending it off to another streamer just like we originally did on TheMaskedChris's stream. We're still thinking about who, and they have to agree to the stream of course, but if you have any suggestions (or better yet, if YOU want to give it a shot), feel free to get in contact with one of us through Twitter or Discord! Be warned - we're picky.
Of course, we're not ONLY doing Chapter 1. There's Chapter 2 content as well! And its only gonna get even more unhinged.

Please note that everything shown from this point forward is VERY much work in progress, so expect everything to change a bit.

Puzzle masters! Don't get demonetized.

We redid the intro cutscene. It's definitely a sight to behold. No idea if its a good sight or a bad sight.

Chapter 2! No, they're not Garfield.

If you've seen the previews on my YouTube channel, this replacement for Swatch should look familiar:

Wait, how'd HE get here? This doesn't look like its from Chapter 1 OR 2? What's happening??

One final thing.
This entire mod is a passion project from just 4 or so people who thought it'd be a fun gag for a single livestream.. and now we're here. It's a bit terrifying!

(art by Fatigued_CPU)

If you want to go ahead and follow everybody, here's your chance:

MAIN TEAM
@KiwiBurd (twitter) (youtube)
@Fatigued_CPU (twitter) (youtube)
@KyleTZZFF (twitter) (youtube)
@pokeizel (twitter) (youtube)

ADDITIONAL HELP
@TheMaskedChris (twitter) (youtube)
@Nikaia
Hoshdcool (twitter)
And chances are this list WILL grow with time.

It was super fun to develop this mod even in the one-month time limit we had back in October. Now that we don't have any more time limits, we can take our sweet time and polish everything up to the standards that you'd expect.

These devlogs shall be a monthly thing! So come back around the same time next month for.. well, I haven't thought that far ahead yet. Maybe one of us will even throw an image or two out early. WHO KNOWS??? I DON'T, AT ALL

Thanks for sticking around. Hoping the mod will be worth the wait.

-KiwiBurd