Unlike other posts this will be a more specific in-depth explanation of what we have been doing and what's left.

Since the last post we made a ton of progress! I improved the camera animation inside combat - now it's much more epic/dramatic and pleasing to the eye, this was something that was definitely in need of more work because it was dull. Me and Azyunote have also been working on combat VFXs in general - we managed to make (and animate) VFX for all of Ethel's skills the next step to work on Nema's. I have been showing these VFXs in action to supporters with WiP access on discord. Azyunote has also been providing valuable QA information, pointing things that could easily be improved that I overlooked while also helping me improve those.

This week I'll be revisiting the already finished mechanics such as the world and local map, I'll be testing them to make sure they are working properly and bug-free while also replacing the placeholder artwork that was being used.

Moisesf (the secondary artist) revamped Ethel's skill icons (samples bellow) and is now working on VFXs for the enemy's skills.

ZheroMusic (sound engineer/musician) has been working on ambience and SFXs for the dialogue scenes, he is almost done with those and after that the only things left audio-wise would be the skills in combat.

Akaonimir (main artist) finished all the artowork we will need for the demo, now he's working on CGs that will be used in random events you may encounter while exploring, those events will not be present on the alpha release but might make it to the beta one.

Our failure to meet the dates provided in the past have made it clear that I underestimated the amount of work that was left for the release, however this does not mean progress has slowed down! Development is still going at a reasonable pace and we are still doing our best to get the demo done as soon as we can. To avoid putting pressure on me and my team I will no longer be providing release dates, I can only assure you that it will be soon™. Regardless I'll continue making the progress reports so you can see for yourself how close we are.

This week we got the dialogue UI done and set up with all coding in place. I also continued porting the scenes to Yarn (Yarn is responsible for controlling the flow of the scenes - which ones are shown the player and so on).

We're almost done with the tooltips and after that we will have almost what we need in order to make the game intuitive for new players.

Akaonimir has been doing a great job with the CGs and portraits - However I can't show most of them here due to spoilers.

That's it for this week - we'll be back with more news on the next.

In the last 7 days I have been working on testing and fixing the bugs I could find while also improving some things (such as UI response) along the way, today I finally managed to get it to an acceptable state and released the test/alpha build to the testers.
In the meantime our main artist Akaonimir has been working on making portraits for the dialogue scenes and also a CG that will be needed on the first quest.
We also made a lot of progress writing wise, Kattlarv and Elizzy both wrote some exciting new scenes that we will also need on the first quest.

That's it for this week, the public roadmap has also been updated with our current progress, feel free to check it out on our public Trello.

After fixing all the bugs I could find I finally managed to get the build out for people to test/give feedback. It's still in a rough shape in many areas - lacking most sounds and such but we will keep improving it as time goes by. Anyone with the "An Apple?!" tier or above has access to it.