Weekly Update (9-1-2025)

To start, happy Labor Day to those who celebrate!

Things are on track for the public release this Friday. I've replayed most of the game and made a lot of fixes to early content. May or may not get through the rest before friday, we'll see, but even if I don't, I've been through the parts that are old enough to be most in need of re-checking and improvement.

I had some disruption in my other work this week. Nothing that actually should change my situation right away, so I'm not super worried about how it will affect me, but it is something that makes me a little more inclined to see if I can get that side writing project I was musing about off the ground. We'll have to see how that goes. I will say, I'm pretty happy with the ideas that I've had for it.

In other news, as I alluded to before, I've hired a publicist/PR person on a trial biases to promote this update. I'm not sure how much is reasonable to expect of this, but they've started doing some creator outreach, so should be interesting to see if we can get anywhere. Given the importance of word of mouth in spreading awareness, I feel like even a few new "seeds" may be valuable, but we'll needs see.

Regardless of all of this, though, I'll be getting back to work on new content pretty soon. I'm hoping that v0.17 will be a faster update, but it's hard to be sure exactly how long these things will take in advance. Obviously v0.16 got way longer than planned, hah. XD Still, I have a reasonable expectation that that won't happen again. Unlike last chapter, where I didn't have a name in mind until the last minute, I can say with near certainty even now that the next chapter will be titled "The Feast of Vaelian."

Anyway, for now, back to my polishing work and plotting.