The first episode of our game came out on 29 May 2020. A lot of time has passed since then and weve decided it was time to share some news about the updates making process. Maybe we should have done that way earlier, but I wanted to be super sure about what changes the second episode will get. Were currently working on making new content and editing the technical part of the game. Your feedback helped us a lot, thank you all for your reviews, both positive and negatives. This all helps us grow as developers. However, I think its time we get specific. Combat system will get a huge overhaul. Many of you told us that the combat system wasnt satisfying, that the game would be better off without it. Theres a grain of truth in these words, the combat system was indeed too simple and sort of boring. Well try to fix that by making the system deeper, adding a tactical aspect to the fight while making the fights less frequent. Those of you who played our first game know that it was visual novel. We dont have that much experience with creating a game with RPG elements, but we like it and well try to get better. Hopefully, we can make the combat system more engaging and interesting. The UI will also be changed. The UI is mostly the main reason why I avoided making any news posts. To the very last moment I hoped to demonstrate all the planned changes, but sadly the new combat UI wont be drawn any time soon, not till next year. However, I can already show you how the trade UI will look like:
The main menu screen will be changed too, including the main menu of the first episode. Weve fixed some small bugs, typos, UI fixes, and now were testing it all.
The music will be changed as well. We have a few written tracks on our hands that, in our opinion, are more fitting for the game. We could use more of them, but the girl whos writing these songs takes her time to do it. However, we love the final product. I cant give you any estimate of the second episodes release date. On one hand, the money we got from sales allowed us to buy new hardware which in turn allowed us to increase the pace of work, but on the other hand, the second episode is just technically way harder than the first one. Were now devoting more time to script and staging the scenes. With all that in mind, I must ask you not to expect much of us. Were only learning to make good games and I hope you can help us with this demanding task. Wed like to release the episode sometime in autumn of 2021. However, keep in mind that its not an announcement of release date, its just the time wed like to finish working on the update. Respectfully, Novel.