Trembling Essence:💙Cleaning up the game.💙

Hi guys and welcome new followers! This update post is fairly late and might be a little short but here's how the game is going so far! Enjoy this lighthearted thumbnail now that I can draw again! :,]

I also want to clarify this but when I said that "the pathing won't play out the same from the [Extended Demo] anymore" I mean the endings specifically not the way to figure out how to get to Noah, I like it the way it is.** :,]

"Cleaning up the game? What happened?":

Yes! Unfortunately I wasn't able to do much of anything and didn't have access to drawing until recently. I was going to wait until the following week to post but I really want to get this out of the way since it's still fresh on my mind! :]

While this was going on it gave me a lot of time to just think about the games progression and what I would like to do and change moving forward. It's not much but once I was able to get back to working on the game, the main thing I did was clean up more of the pathing for the choices you can make leading up to the cabin. I really took my time with this and made sure the dialog flowed correctly and corresponds with how the player(Y/N) is feeling during parts where time passes wondering around. There were a couple of misplaced sentences and grammar I missed that got fixed too.

Big quality of life change:

A path in the game where you can run into Noah again has been adjusted, this is from the [Extended Demo] and not new content. I want to keep it vague for those who haven't gotten this 'Neutral Ending' but the 'Endings Guide' is available! I noticed it took a long time to get through this so I cut one of the two exploration sections so it stays balanced with the other parts of the game. One thing I really want to add is a unique CG here. I have an idea on how I want it to look but I'd have to adjust the wording to make it fit. I might do a perspective pose but since I haven't had much time to draw my style is going to fluctuate again. :,]

I also added more parts where Noah talks to you a bit more but I still have to go back and fix some of it because some of the writing isn't where I want it to be and this was while I was brainstorming. :[]

Kept the progress bar the same since only a small amount of stuff was done. Right now I want to continue fixing up stuff and most of what my play testers recommended already.

If you like what I create, please consider supporting what I do on kofi! All donations and tips help tremendously while I continue to work on the game. Thank you to those that optionally bought the [Extended Demo] and the March 2023 demo on itch.io. :,]

Q&A / Ask box is open:

I'm going to get to a couple of them this week! I need to practice drawing/coloring again. :]

If you have any questions about Trembling Essence/Noah feel free to ask here or on itch.io please. This makes it easier for me to see and answer accordingly! I enjoy hearing from you guys!

Overall, thank you everyone for the continued support, the progress has been small but I appreciate the uplifting words and the recent influx of interest in the game! :,]