Happy weekend fellow campers! I hope that y'all are well. My apologies for the long silence. As discussed before as I've had to priorities development these past few months, alongside real life challenges.

THE PLAN within the next few weeks is to have Chapter 3 go into beta testing so during this summer Chapter 3 will be released. Once Chapter 3 is released, with a genuinely deserved rest included (Did not have one since Chapter 1 was released), Chapter 4 will begin development.

Chapter 3 has not been without issues. I've had to make a lot of adjustments, do some cuts and also the biggest issue, finding an entire new soundtrack (after the licensing I've paid for for a few years is now invalid), which we're not going to go into the drama of explaining that. Having to search for license free music for the prologue, chapter 1, 2 and 3, (until in the future I can hopefully afford to pay artists individually) is very time consuming and very burning for an individual.

But we're at the point where support has to increase now.

You can read more about it in my prior blog here:

~~ Those of you who continue to support me, who have prior, or will in the future, from the bottom of my heart, thank you. You're all helping keep this game alive and with it allowing me to work towards my dream career when I need y'all most. Much love for y'all.

Chapter 3 has over 4000 still renders. Have had to cut down and remove various existing and planned animations for Chapter 3, but those are over 2000 animated frames as well, bringing the total "new" render count of Chapter 3 well over 6000, which well surpasses the total count of Chapter 2. As I discussed prior, future release updates may have less total new renders pending on the contents of that Chapter, which will make sense in the point mentioned next below.

To help get more regular feedback and to give fans an incentive to continue to support me and become a sub, from now on future chapters will be segmented into multiple parts, in smaller, more regular releases. What does this mean? That means that Chapters will be for instance in "Chapter X - Part 1, 2, 3" etc. This also as a dev will help me reduce personal burn out.

Minus any additions/fixes, rendering for Chapter 3 is done, script is done, music is being wrapped up today and the beta testers will do their best to smooth out the rough edges as much as they can before release when I hand it over to them in the coming weeks. For me, it's all post work now, coding/scripting, variables, achievements, unlockables (that need to be done), UI/guide changes/additions etc. Those are all time consuming, but not as much as the flaming music hunting.

I want to again thank you all for sticking it out with me, and I appreciate those of you who've gone out of your way to reach out to me, give me praise, as well as support me. You guys/gals rock. Until next time, when we all return to camp!