Friday Rambles and Game Dev Update 2023-04-28

It's Friday. Sorry, keeping this short because I'm in the middle of the busiest week of my entire life.

Here's what's happened with Endless Monday Game since last week:

- Finished remaining art and dialogue for the entire story except for the endings.

- Submitted build to Steam for review and approval for going live. This was the biggest unknown, as I mentioned last week. And I'm very pleased and relieved to say that Steam has approved the build for release. Whew! Just gotta finish the game now.

- Did playtests with a small group of testers. It went well, in that they found a hundred bugs and ui issues and crashes. I fixed every bug and issue they found, and everyone's now completed multiple full playthroughs without encountering any issues, so now the game is pretty stable, without any super obvious problems as far as I can tell. As in, most players shouldn't encounter issues during a normal playthrough. They also had feedback about the story and difficulty of progression, so I went through and tuned that too. I'm so glad there weren't any major showstoppers here that I wasn't able to fix quickly. The game is now way more polished than it was even a week ago.

- I'm wrapping up the endings now. I have... about 4 days at most to finish them, because I need to also spend time adding polish elsewhere. And making a release day comic. Cutting it real close, there. Send me energy.

I wish I had a lot more time to tweak it and add more secrets and lore and content and other features and polish, but I just straight up cannot delay this game any further. Because of real life. But still, without this deadline, I actually don't think I would have been able to buckle down and actually finish and release it lol. I definitely am planning to keep updating and adding all the stuff I had planned but didn't have time to in future free content patches. You know, assuming the game isn't a total flop. Even still, right now I think it's something I can be proud of releasing.

Well. The next ramble will be a day after release, which is still planned for 5/4 (barring any catastrophes). I wonder what next week me will have to say. I hope he's happy.

Thank you for your support, as always!