Week 40, 2026 - devlog (Patreon)

Hi folks!

I wish I could say I'm back to normal functioning after September saw me travelling to Iceland and then co-organising a con, but I can't yet - the cold or a flu or whatever it is I caught while recovering from fatigue still isn't all gone. I've spent the last two weeks mostly at home, in bed or on the sofa, writing and focusing on getting better.

The Waves is further ahead than I expected. Today I finished writing chapter 5; what I had in my draft as Chapter 6 will have to be divided into two and greatly expanded - the total number of chapters will therefore be 7. Chapter 4 is coming out exactly one week from now, and on the same day the first 3 chapters will also be released on Itch. The next public update will come out after the whole 7-chapter VN is released here.

I wrote the story back in January 2024, and managed to include a wide variety of references to it in Dawn Chorus in the meantime. In a way, the story itself served as a backbone for Lake's development later in Dawn Chorus. It doesn't stop at Anders being mentioned - I'm curious how much of it you'll pick up on.

After coming back from Iceland and releasing Chapter 3 of The Waves, I also started working on the next update for Dawn Chorus - this time for Devon only. I thought that'd be fair - with both the Iceland trip and The Waves taking up weeks of my time, I'd rather release the next update sooner rather than later. The whole update is already sketched out and all the scenes are ready to write - which is also true for the rest of Devon's route.

Devon's whole story should be finished in two updates, plus one for the epilogue. Whether that's good or bad news, I can't say - but it's clear that things are slowly but surely coming to a conclusion.

-Keo