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Hey there, been a while hasn't it? Well except it hasn't since this is the 3rd devlog we have had in the past 4 months lol(blame underevent and christmas). This devlog isn't going to be too big or anything, you guys already got a lot of content recently. We mainly will be focusing on smaller things and how progress is going/the projects future.

SNOWDIN ENCOUNTER

Before I say anything, heres the progress on it in percentages:

Coding - 90ish%
Complete, Sprites - 90% Complete, All battle sprites are done, needs some sprites for the ending sequence
Music - 100% Complete
Writing - 95% Complete, I literally only need to write a little bit of its end of the fight dialog lol

As you can see, Snowdin Encounter is almost complete! The fight is essentially fully playable minus the final attack, and the team has playtested it a few times over the past few months. This fight has been our main focus for a while and will likely be the biggest part of the games demo for a lot of people.

The song is also fully complete, and works amazingly well in game.

"So that means we can listen to the song now, right...?"

Uh, well, no. We believe bigger songs like this deserve to be heard in full first when playing the game itself. This adds a lot more weight and emotion to the song, and the song itself actually has spoilers to the fight believe it or not. A lot of direction with the song is based off the events of the fight. This project is also a game, not a OST au, and theres several other tracks you guys haven't heard or won't know about until the games demo and full release.

However, we do have 2 smaller songs which will be mentioned later.

You may noticed that a game demo was mentioned, and while it's been talked about in a few places on discord, we haven't "officially" announced it.

Team Delusional's DUSTTALE will have a Demo containing all content up the end of Snowdin releasing in 2026.

While I don't know what part of 2026 the demo will release in, I wouldn't be surprised if it was during the first half of the year(don't count on that, though.)

Progress has been extremely good lately. since Snowdin Encounter is almost complete, work is beginning a lot more on the rest of the demo. Heres a few screenshots on a few random things that have been working on.

Ruins Borders, by Zalcuzidk.

Sprites by Ocas, Candi, Ava, Styph, Nick.

Sprites by Ocas, Nick, Styph.

Music

While we aren't releasing Permafrost, we still will be posting smaller tracks every once in a while. This time around we have two, "The Ruins", and "NYEH HEH HEH!"

Song by Fazzy

Song by Baughy

Also the soundcloud page has had a little bit of updating if you haven't noticed, mainly just thumbnail updates.

This devlog has been mostly just talking about progress, which future updates will probably be like. It's important to not show too much of the game since its much funner to see things for the first time in game, so don't be surprised if we don't show as much until the games demo next year. Thank you guys for the nice 2 years this project has been around, see you guys on the next post!

Or our discord server, you guys should join that:

https://discord.gg/gMgAQvPzDZ