Development Diary № 34 (Patreon)

Friends! I recently had a post about the futility of existence. You wrote me a lot of nice words. It's very inspiring. Thank you very much! I'm working on the game with great enthusiasm again. I have a lot of plans and ideas! Now I want to tell you a little about global and local plans.

I thought a little about the priorities in my future work. As you probably know, Bright Past is already close to version 1.0. You often ask when this will happen and whether this will be the end. I'm also slowly working on another project. So...

Bright Past.

I decided that for the near future my priorities will remain here. In the first half of 2025, I plan to release version 1.0 on Steam (exclusive information for you). This does not mean the end of the work. I want 1.0 to be functional and have endings. Then I plan to support the game, add new content and fix bugs. For you, my patrons, everything will remain as before. You will get the latest version every time, and the Steam version will be public.

Short-term plans: I am currently working on an event that will conclude the story of Ash and John. I conceived it as a simple small quest, but in the process the story acquired a scope, including a prison, a cemetery, plot twists, etc. I am a little excited when I think about what will come out in the end.

I also had an idea to reward the oldest and most generous patrons. There are already 2 people who have donated more than $ 1000 over the entire time! This is some kind of madness. Each of these patrons will receive a cameo NPC in the Bright Past. These will be random background characters with a couple of lines. I hope the heroes will enjoy it.

New project.

Working title "Project Esterium". Last month, I spent almost 2 weeks on it, taking a break from the Bright Past. This will be something completely different. In real life, I like to play tabletop RPGs, and I always wanted to create something fantasy. The result is a text-based RPG with an open world. It sounds big, yes.

I'm going to distribute the new project on a separate Patreon page. Firstly, it is very different from the previous one in every way, secondly, other people will help me with it, thirdly, Patreon is very unstable, and any page can be banned at any time, so this will be a little bit of an insurance policy. I hope to present you the first demo of this game soon.

For now, this will be a "free time project". My main focus is still on the Bright Past.

Thanks again to everyone for the kind words. Thank you for the ideas you send. Believe me, I read and think about everything. Sometimes interesting thoughts come across. And thank you for still staying with me!

Kosmo