Hello again everyone! First of all, sorry this update took a few days longer then expected, a mixture of reasons caused this to take a bit longer then anticipated. Between the issue of me being, well, pretty silly and honestly forgetting, and some personal issues of mine, I ended up taking a few days longer to post this update. But hey, its here, so lets get right into it!

So first of all, I wanna talk about the progress made over the past month, and what I've been doing.

So when it comes to progress on the game, I have gotten done:

-Beginning work on the game's tutorial
-Updating and polishing of the game opener, storyteller cutscene, and Intro cutscene (now more clean, music is fixed, they are skippable, ect ect)
-Game Data Management and Save Data Systems are being overhauled
-Settings are being overhaued, and some new settings are also being implemented
-The Outside has been updated some more, adding in some further functionality.
-Several Small fixes

Not a whole lot, but still, progress is progress. Admittedly, I wish I had gotten more done, but my time has been really split between different tasks with my main projects. A lot of the work has been primarily behind the scenes work, though even then, its not been a whole lot.

Now, before I wrap things up and go back to my own world, I wanted to discuss something, which is the demo. I actually want to expand it a bit. So this would include:

-A few new areas (4 new areas of Floor 1, and two areas for Floors 2, 4, 7, A, and B, with Floors 1 and 2 being in normal gameplay, and the others being accessible in a level select of sorts)
-A few more animatronics (exact amount not decided)
-Full Menu Customization, including Menu Styles
-Some more Easter Eggs
-Some more minigames

It wouldn't be all too much, but I feel like it would really help feel like more of an expansive demo. Now this list isn't final, and there could be more floors or less characters or some other different change in the future to it, we'll see. Point is, I am interested in adding more content to the demo, though I wont decide upon this until I have the demo in a more solidified state.

I've also been considering on actually adding demos for some of the other modes too, in fact, I've actually been prototyping these other modes recently. I'm primarily wanting to create a small GPD Mode demo and Adventure Mode Demo, both of which, while being small, would let you experience a basic form of what I was wanting for the game. I also have been making a Coop Mode Demo, but this isn't actually planned to be public, and is simply a "just for fun" project, and due to issues, likely won't release.

When it comes to these side modes, GPD Mode wouldn't really need much work. It would just need around 1 or 2 months of work to be complete. Adventure Mode may take longer, due to the amount of 3D Art Assets necessary, but I do think it wouldn't take more then 3-4 months. We'll see.

None of this is decided on just yet, but if I do decided to expand the demo, I will probably post about it.

Now, one more thing I want to talk about... Kitty Fazcat...

I made a promise that if ANY guest character dev wanted their character removed, I would do it. Eventually I even just straight up removed ALL guest characters. However, now a new person is gonna have to go, Kitty. Now, this one is gonna be a bit more difficult then the others. The others were minor characters with very little references. Kitty though, yeah a lot more changes will need to be made.

I'll need to do the following:
-Implement a replacement character (Dug is my best bet right now)
-Remove all Posters and objects relating to Kitty
-Change the in-game name of the Kitty Fazcat Child.
-Replace Golden Kitty (I'm thinking maybe a Golden Sugar?)

Whatever is decided, I hope to both make sure Kitty feel comfortable, while also not bothering players too much. I hope this won't be too much of an issue for yall.

That's all for now. Sorry for being so brief, I've been dealing with a lot of stuff recently, so I've been having a lot of my attention away from TRTF5. I hope that in the future this won't be a further issue, but for now, that's all from me! I hope to see you guys in the near future, goodbye for now!