I've been adding fast travel warp points across the map and kinda want to do a aaq after release date to show or help find some of the secrets I'm hiding like I've been asking around a bunch of subreddits for item ideas for dedicated items to YouTubers who inspired me and a lot of the YouTubers and games I could figure out what to have as there dedicated item

But it's not really a weekly update so I'll save most of the details for Ben but I'm thinking of a March 16th launch day for the demo AKA chapter 0 I'm not promising on March 16th launch day for the demo it might come earlier at the rate I'm going I estimate I can get the demo done by February 25 and I don't really want to sit on a demo for a few weeks when I could be getting useful input about a stuff I might have messed up so I guess it's up in the air when the demo will launch as I just need to do a few playthroughs of it to make sure I didn't mess anything up or break the game after that I'll post the demo and be open to feedback and any questions about some surface-level lore

Happy weekly update this week has actually been productive I went ahead and added firebombs

A fast travel system

Some character tweaks and balances

Started going through my 50 page Google design document / Bible for the game and checking stuff off that list of things to add

I have decided to leave it up to a Reddit poll if I should release a demo of the first dungeon slash chapter 0 I'm calling it chapter 0 because it's more of a prologue / tutorial than actual plot progression

Other than that it's been smooth sailing I've also been prototyping it crafting system to add that would allow you to get summons for a character who I've yet to add

Expected news and bad news be expected news is I haven't been able to work on my project because of school stuff cough cough trying to make a Source Filmmaker movie for reading class hacking up a lung and the bad news I decided to make renders of the characters or some of the main characters in the game but I couldn't find for the life of me any character creation software that wasn't tied to some terrible cringe-inducing subsection of the internet so unfortunately I use the gachalife to render some of the characters

So don't crucify me but here are some of the vendors I deliberately leprechaun actors Rarity at 0 stars because I don't know how to rate characters based on rarely

But if anyone can tell me any better character creation software I am willing to take suggestions because I don't want my game even a in the same sentence as this cringe-inducing fandom

Ignore me relationship personality and occupation parts of it I forgot to change those from the preset I used to help make the characters

Also d.e. means during Edge because I plan for the timeline of events throughout the story to take place over multiple years and thus the characters age would change at different points

Happy weekly update this week has honestly been quite eventful I completed the after dungeon 3 cutscene and have started work on the branching paths and I had a little bit icing on the cake I had a survey or did a poll on Reddit to determine which dungeon set I will put into the game first I also did two of her polls about some of her stuff but no one answered those two

So I'm just going to follow my gut on that one and the roadmap is looking good might have to cram a little bit but it's looking like but summer launch date it might be happening if I actually spend some time to work on it and on that note I am currently working out the dungeon order kinda and will soon blbe tile mapping Eventing all that good stuff the mines and the ancient city now the next order of business is to decide if I should do an episodic release and put a demo out this month or next month I could easily turn the first three dungeons or technically to as one is more of a root but I haven't really thought about it yet the third dungeon still needs an absolute can of Polish like I might have to get a gallon of Polish and it's going to be a nightmare I have to deal with soon and I guess that's all for the weekly update oh wait this is one of your thing

A hint for you all involving the demo I might or might not release

"For those stupid or brave seek out the skeleton within the park if you seek a nice lark beware of him though his Wares are fine but they come at a cost not listed on the tag"

For those who either don't want to figure it out or just want the answer the skeleton Merchant is in the park in the starting town and he will sell "rare" items or challenge orbs

I've already implemented a few of them but challenge orbs will be optional equipment that will make the game harder but give some really nice Rewards I'm planning on making the Challenge orbs come in a variety of flavor ranging from minor things like higher enemies spawn rate or some really crazy stuff like no using items in battle.

I asked reddit To decide if which story i should program in first

THIS CANNOT BE UNDONE

nextup on the agenda is to decide if I should release it in a episodic format or all at once?

I freaking finaly finshed the cutscean (baring the stuff immediately after it)

[episode select] as the story "branches" ( you will get to pick which team you follow the story of after the cutscene) and It will be structuring or naming the different stories that Branch off from it that all come together at the end

so the next major thing I'm going to do is work on episode 1? I haven't decided the numbering of the branching paths

But each episode will follow a different team each going after different shards of world Edge within the end them all coming together So currently the number of teams in question is 5 so teams one through five will be the first five episodes each of them napping two shards hopefully although I have no clue which of the five teams to follow first or to make their levels first and a suggestions would be much appreciated

Team 1 ancient castle and deep woods

Team 2 mines and the forgotten city

Team3 great glacier and fire island

Team4 the void and the ather

Team 5 abandoned mansion and sky islands

Please note the actual names of the locations aren't that generic just put the generic equivalents there to avoid spoilers

Edit: in comments

Sorry for not making a weekly update ive been swamped by life and school and havent got much work done on the game

Happy weekly update pretty much nothing got done this week unfortunately due to technical difficulties with the computers I had to move my files with source code off my old computer and onto my current one and I am at the time of writing this I am working on the third dungeon cuz I decide to put the can of Polish in it now and the cutscene that has been bugging me down I decide to just use the region tags to tell where all the NPC's will be during the cutscene and I would like to share some progress

and i am still looking for beta testers please dm me on newgrounds I have also decided to set up a Wattpad or archive of your own I still am deciding between those two where I will write a few short stories that take place in the universe and I was working on the game is taking so dang long and hopefully the short stories can fill in some gaps about the universe this game takes place in and shows some of the characters because edges kind of smack dab in the middle of the timeline

Merry Christmas

There's not really that much to report as in nothing got done except I checked a few ideas at the Google Doc I keep up my ideas does my computer has not been out of commission by the same time in the shop because I decided it would be a good time to work on my projects other than the game because it's Christmas time and I've been away from my computer for a whole week as 99% my Steam games needed updates and it took an entire dema-dang

But everything is back up and running and after Christmas I'm going to be working on it and finally get that dang cutscene between the ferry dungeon and fourth dungeon also I have been shopping around for a place to hopefully upload short stories that take place in the same universe as the game but I haven't found any good places to upload said stories so if anyone has any suggestions please comment or PM them to me also I am still looking for beta / Alpha/ [insert shrugging dk here] testers

Also I made a 0 IQ move and accidentally replaced this announce Miss weekly thing with last week's by was able to save last week's

also I use Google Speech to Text for this so yeah so blame Google for grammar

Welcome to this week's weekly update this week I accomplished very little to nothing but I did however, a few scripts for sections that I ever want to make into optional Side Stories in the game or release the scripts as small stories that will serve to help World build and show that the stuff happening on the main planet is not all the events going on throughout the Galaxy I also started working on a world Anvil page for the game that's been fun and I got my Twitter account mostly set up and my plan is to advertise for the Alpha / beta test there so more people can see it

To do.

Finsh meating after dungeon 3

Looking for testers

Looking for place to publish short in universe storys

Ps I used speech to text for this update so blame speech-to-text for the grammar errors