Happy Halloween everyone! It's been a while hasn't it? Fortunately I come bearing good news!

Nocti's development has picked up a lot since I last posted! I've got more time to work on the game now, and I even have some days where I can work on it almost all day! It's a great feeling to be making progress again. I think the last real screenshots I shared on this dev blog were of NPCs for a now fully mapped* area. I've since started on reworking "Tiny Town", that weird purple place with all the trees and small buildings.

 
I'd say it looks a lot better, wouldn't you? The buildings may not be as small but the idea still comes across. 

I've also been working on spriting more effects and planning story beats. There's a lot to do! Next up is the forest connected to Tiny Town, and then on to the beach area, which will be the final area from the demo. The rest of it will be all new. After I finish those tilesets work on eventing the beginning of the game will begin, and then I'll start working on adding in the ~new areas~.

My super optimistic and probably foolish plan is to have a demo out by sometime early next year. January or February. When that happens I'll replace the jam version of Nocti with the demo. As much as I'd love to keep it up the demo really is a mess of a game that has all sorts of issues and it doesn't feel worth the effort to fix it up when I'm already working on the better version. Plus I don't want my itch.io page to be just different iterations of Nocti. These updates have always been cross-posted to the tumblr blog  so if you want to read the older ones when the demo comes out you can do so there. 

That's all I really have to say for right now! Don't forget that I post little screenshots of stuff on my twitter if you want to see more. 

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*there is one more map to make for the area but it's going to be a doozy and it's not going in the demo so I'm putting it off for now lol