Project Red Update (Patreon)

Project Red has been radio silent for a few months, and with good reason.  That is to say, there is no playable build I can share right now lol.  At the moment I've been working on implementing new features, and for testing purposes I've just placed a bunch of NPC's in the witches yard that will change my stats, give me items and launch battles with specific enemies to test highly specific moves and concepts.  HOWEVER.  I believe I am now done with this phase of development, and with that, it means it's time to launch into making the game properly now.

That being said, there have been some changes since the previous update.  Originally, Project Red was going to be a full fledged game telling the entire story of Red.  That is no longer the case.  After watching a very unreleated video about FNAF fan games of all things, the commentator really struck a cord with me when he mentioned how many of the devs run head first into games that are far too big for a solo creator or small team to reasonably be able to create, and it kind of made me take a step back and realize that I was doing the same thing.  I've NEVER MADE A GAME BEFORE.  And jumping into something that would have been like, 8 hours of play time with hundreds of art assets all created by me would have taken an enormous amount of time.  And frankly, I can't say I would have seen that through to the end.  So I've decided to break that one game up, into 3.  Red was always set up to cover 3 chapters to begin with, so making it a trilogy works well for the narrative already.  It also is a much more feasible project for me to create this way.  So the new title of the first game is "Project Red Chapter 1: The Witch and The Wolf that Howls my Name."With this change also comes a much bigger change to the narrative.  As I've worked out ideas in my head, I've settled on the overall story I want to tell across ALL of the Lost Girls Fables series.  So after Red chapter 1, the next game would actually be Alice In! Chapter 1.  A game which will feature Red and hints as to the truth of her story.  And following Alice would be Dotty's first game, until we loop back around.  Each game building on the lore and setting of my version of Wonderland.  I'm very excited to share these ideas and concepts with everyone and to see people play the game, so I'm happy to say that starting today I'm going to be working on a demo build of Project Red that I will be sharing publicly for free once completed.  Of course I'll pry have a build with sketch art up on here for you all to try out first, but my point is that you should be playing a new version of Red with all the added mechanics before the end of the year, and I'll be working on final art assets on a regular basis from here on out.Once Checkmate ends I'll probably be switching focus to a share a lot more about these games and the stories and characters, but for now, I hope you'll be patient while I finish up Checkmate.