Hey all. It's been a while, and today is FNaF's fifth anniversary, so why not celebrate with a new devlog! This will be fun! Looking back, I have a crud ton of devlogs. I'm not going to delete them, but I don't want to spam them going forward with new games. It's little things like that which show on how much you learn as an indie dev.

I'm working on a new update for Redacted, and I'm calling it Update 3! I know it's not official, but I hope it's something I can achieve!

To tell you the truth, I wanted to get the next update out today, but it's clear it won't happen. I have something fun in mind that I don't think anyone is expecting, but it's really under-developed right now and is far from being finished. I also wanted to add in more stuff for the extras menu, but that'll take time to put it all together. I don't want to rush it either or promise release dates, because you can't always be sure if everything will turn out fine or if you'll get it out as promised because SOMETHING is bound to go wrong.

So, what things I have in store for Update 3 that I can show you for now? Well... not much. Here's two screencaps of what I can show you and what I'm very excited to show off for now. I didn't think I could make it possible, but take a look!

What do you think?

As a heads up, I will update the party members again, but I'll put up a change log for them when I do. One oversight I made back there is making Happy Jam 2 unused (oops), so it'll be brought back in this new update.

Speaking of being brought back, when I was cleaning up the battle code for the game, I somehow got Mystery Box to work again. So yes, I'll be putting that move back into the game along with Hocus Pocus, which will be tweaked!

That's all I can talk about for now! Oh, there are some things I should discuss. Some FAQ stuff, here we go.

“What happened to the Android port?”

I took it down and honestly, it was really old and outdated compared to the PC version. I haven't spoke up about it and I apologize for being silent back there. As you may have seen, there were some bugs that only showed up on the Android port the moment I exported it and it got annoying to export it again and again to make sure this and that go right. It's just a waste of time.

That, and I don't own an Android device, so I have to use a emulator for it which is really clunky. I might be using the wrong ones but I use BlueStacks for it since it's the most stable and feature rich for me. If there are any better alternatives then let me know!

Sadly, for the time being, I have to shelve the port. I'm not expecting to make future games be on Android either for these reasons either. Sure, Clickteam helped Scott into getting UCN and FFPS on mobile just fine, but I don't have that same luxury. That, and these are official games sold for money, not some fan project that falls into a legal gray area.

“Why won't you add X characters in Redacted?”

I never intended for Redacted to add in new characters. It's a remake of the original game with bug fixes and improvements, not meant to be an expansion pack upon the original until I added in the Ice World as a bonus. That, and I haven't tackled the animation aspect yet, so I can't add in any new characters for now. Even if I did, I rather put these missing characters in a new game since I have other ideas for them.

That's all for now! Hope you catch you soon!

~GB