Demo ver 1.6 is now live! (Patreon)
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Hi everyone, and Happy New Year! Hope you've been staying safe and healthy, and that the holidays have been treating you well.
Happy to report that Demo ver 1.6 has now been uploaded. The update is 35.5k words in total, covering the bulk of the Aulain arc (it ends just after the big Arcadia flashback scene towards the end of the arc - you know the one). As alluded to in previous devlogs, the earlier parts of the arc have been completely overhauled, and basically written from the ground up. Personally, I'm very pleased with Aulain's new ambiance and plot beats have turned out, and I hope you will be, as well. The later parts of the update retain much of the old demo's content, but have been refined and edited to better fit the new demo's frame of context. In particular, the dialogues have been revised heavily, with the goal of it becoming less anachronistic and juvenile.
The next update should fully complete the Aulain arc. In the original demo, only about 8k words were left there, with the bulk of it being denouement sequences like Father Gerian's funeral. The plan for the new demo is to expand the last leg of the fight significantly, taking advantage of Aulain's new ambiance, and resolve the new plot threads introduced in this demo. I hope you'll look forward to it!
Click here to play Demo ver 1.6!
Unfortunately, owing to my lack of foresight regarding my artists' availability around the holidays, the artworks I intended to commission for this month have yet to be completed. For the arcanist art rewards, I have a couple of backup artworks prepared ahead of time featuring Falco and Yurui's signature spells, which will go up shortly after this devlog. For the monthly features, however, I'm sorry to report that I don't have that failsafe prepared. The commission is in the pipeline, and I should be able to post them in the first half of January. I have also included a (currently empty) imgur link to the end of last month's Monthly Features post, to which I will be uploading the artworks upon their completion. If you intend to unsubscribe to the Patreon for January, please save/bookmark that link, so that you will be able to access the artworks when they are finished. I do apologize for the hassle!
I'll be back tomorrow to answer comments, questions, and address potential bugs. As always, thank you for supporting the development of A Mage Reborn!