November devlog, poll results (Patreon)

Hi folks!

It's already the middle of November (how the time flies, right?) so I thought I could update you on how things are going and what the team is up to.

Branny is working on Lake update at the moment and most of it is already done. A preview build of it was released last weekend, available for Self-confident Stag and Formidable Feline tiers! We hope to have the whole thing ready to release soon.

In the meantime, I (Keo) already started working on the next update after that, for Mikko and possibly Devon too. Right now I'm working on detailed outlines, so it's just the very beginning of the process, but I hope to start with the writing very soon and keep the tempo high. I still have many outstanding tasks from the list I compiled for the brief break I took in October - like small reworks and Steam release of Broken Harbours or compiling a vol.2 of the soundtrack. The Halloween special took a lot of my time and energy that month. I intend to work on these in parallel with the new update, hoping to have everything done before the end of the year.

Haku is working on some small changes to a few of the sprites:- Mikko is already done, with reworked expressions and his elegant attire. The changes already appeared in the latest Patreon and public builds!- Rune is currently being finished, but already got a new, rounder body and his antlers were fixed. The changes made their way into the latest preview build and will appear later in the full update.- Devon might receive some updates as well; after Haku is done with Rune, they'll try doing some new sketches for him and then we'll see if there's anything we want to change.

And now, the results of the last month's poll! I compiled these from the responses I got from our patrons, as your voices are the most important to us. 

The responses perhaps unsurprisingly didn't change a lot since the last poll we've done in 2021. Rune and Lake continue to be our two most popular characters, though they've switched places. Devon and Jørgen gained a lot of popularity since these early days, and Mikko is more liked than back then too.

For comparison, 2021 results:

 Next, we asked you which of the secondary characters you'd like to see more of. Guðrún and Travis both appeared pretty high; we plan on showing more of them to you!

We also asked you about your opinions on sprites. A lot of you seem to be unhappy with Mikko's sprite, which surprised us; we'd be happy if you told us what we could change. The poll was published after we made changes to his sprite, but there wasn't much time to see them; we're also curious if you think they helped or the problems with his sprite lie elsewhere.It looks like most of you are following most of the routes, which we're very happy about! We're writing Dawn Chorus in such a way that routes compliment each other and tell completely different stories, so we're glad you're reading most of what we're working on.

 Then, we asked you about which artists' works you'd like to see in Dawn Chorus next. The most popular answers were Haku and Ghost!

 And, lastly, we asked you about which platforms you use to follow us. We're happy to see bsky being almost as popular as Twitter already! We plan to continue being active on both platforms, but post images only to bsky.