TLDR: Patron build in the next two weeks, public build aiming for end of January early February! (depending on art being finished)

So got some really exciting news today: we've managed to hit our internal goals and we're currently aiming for some close release dates! Today we wanted to show off a little bit of what we're working on, and explain a bit of the differences you can expect with the build once it's released.

New inventory system which you can select items and use throughout the game!

With the conversion to a proper adventure game using the new Adventure Creator tool, we were able to implement an inventory system into the game! Though the initial implementation will only be a few items at first, over the course of the updates we'll be adding more and more different items for the player to use across brand new environments and locations.  We're aiming to make the interactions interesting, so definitely try to use the wrong item every so often to see what can happen! One way the player will acquire these items is through an item shop, and though we aren't quite ready to talk about that today and show it off, we wanted to let you guys know that it is on the way!

New close up dialogue options and interactions for characters in scenes

The biggest difference with Cyber Rift being converted fully into an adventure game is that now the game requires you to look around the environment and find interesting interactions throughout. Previously the game focused more on the visual novel aspect through conversations, but we wanted to focus on allowing players to explore the environment and get to discover new and fun stuff. As we progress through the builds we'll be adding small USB sticks throughout that will add whole new pinup sketches to collect (gallery feature still WIP but it's on the way!). This build is primarily focused on being a foundational build, and although it will have a lot of fun features we're going to be expanding upon them heavily as we move on!

Preview of Fae's Lab!

Now for the most exciting bit of info: Patrons can expect a working build in the next two weeks and the public build will either be end of January or early February based on when we finish all the art! With the coder we had no longer being involved that did slow us down a fair bit, but we're excited to say we're very much back on track and super happy to show you all the fun things we have in store! Once the new build has released we'll be showing off the roadmap expanded a bit further, and also talking about a bunch of fun new emotes we'll be adding to the Discord server to celebrate the new release! We've very much appreciated all the support you guys have shown, and we can't wait to show off what we've been cooking up these past few months!

Preview of the right hallway and DD-9's charging station

Currently the next updates are already planned once this new build is released. Content wise this will be a big improvement over the previous version, and we're already getting ready to add more content as soon as we're sure the version we've released public is fully stable. After this version content will be produced at a more constant and dependable rate, and we'll have a detailed post outlining our new plans once the builds released! Thanks again everyone for your support and we're really looking forward to giving you guys amazing content this year!

PS: After the build releases we'll be doing a retrospective on our old art and how we've changed in the past two years!