Yikes, time flies by - Weeks 34-38

November 27 - December 31, 2022

I am long overdue on a dev blog post and I couldn't end the year without one, so here it is!
Since most of what I'm working on now is not part of the demo and mostly contains spoilers, I'll be going down to 1-2 posts a month.

Here are some of the stuff I've been working on this past month for chapter 2:

• I've got all the puzzles outside of the lighthouse done.
• I did half of the puzzles inside the lighthouse.
• You can now talk to all npc outside the lighthouse and I wrote all the dialogues for them.
• I finished another scene which I will not talk about... :)
• I continued working on the lighthouse scenes design, which is almost finished.
• I did some sound design (sound effects).
• I did some work on the cutscenes.

So what is left to do in chapter 2?

• Finish the puzzles inside the lighthouse and the scenes design.
• Add all missing hotspots inside the lighthouse, with corresponding dialogues and texts.
• Some in-game animations for Mikey and Grover.
• Finish the cutscenes.
• Write music and make demos.

I plan on finishing all the puzzles, hotspots and scenes in the lighthouse during the next week.
Then I'll move on to the cutscenes.

Since I'm still not an expert in pixel art, I'm not sure how long it will take me to finish the cutscenes.
But, once I'm finished with it, I will release chapter 2 for alpha testing, while I continue working on the missing in-game animations (nothing important to the story, stuff like climbing stairs, rowing the boat, etc) and the music.
Hopefully I'll get it all done by the end of January 2023.

I'm really excited about going into act 2, as the story really opens up and expands in it.

Stay tuned, cool things are coming!