Heyo~

Happy summer! 

As we mentioned in our previous update, we've made some big progress. We completed an overall editing pass of the game, inked out all our backgrounds, and we're even finishing the final touches on our zoom-in images for items and puzzles. As such, the last few months have been mostly dedicated to implementing as much of that into the build as possible.

Currently, the entire game is playable from start to finish with all the critical path text and gameplay beats! What's left is to finish assets still in various stages of WIP, continue implementing assets like SFX and sprites, test, and polish, polish, polish. It's the period of the project where we start focus less on "Is this in game?" as much as "How does it look in game?". We start looking at things like scene transitions, screen shake, and timing.

Next up, we're aiming to do a big testing pass to see how the game is currently playing to help us catch any major issues before we start locking parts of the game down.

UI:

Speaking of how the game looks, Camera Anima's undergone a massive UI update! The entire game's gotten a make over, including dialogue, exploration, and menus screens.

There are still pieces left to work on, but if you'd like to see how things currently look in game, check out the updated demo on Steam and Itch.io! The content is the same, but it has a refreshing new look.

Additionally, since we're half-way through the year, we wanted to update you all on release windows. With our current progress, we're targeting late 2025/early 2026. While the hope is always to aim for sooner, our priority remains for us to get out the game in a quality state while maintaining the team's health.

However, there is a light at the end of the development tunnel every time we load back into the game. 

As always, thanks for reading and have a good day!