Hey there! I'm back with an update.

Not for the full chapter release - still a lot to go through for that, as you might imagine. Still, I wanted to let you guys in on what this second part of the game will be like, so I made a short demo! You can play it on Spirit of Hunger's page, I just updated it.

Let me know what you think of it!

Considerations

I think you can see it for yourself, but I'm trying to do something much more ambitious for this chapter! It shouldn't come as a surprise - I started the first chapter with the intent of *that* being the demo for Spirit of Hunger. This second chapter was always going to be the bulk of the game.

I want to focus on the actual narrative, the story, and this reflects on the gameplay: if the first chapter was a proper interactive sandbox, this one is getting closer to a choose your own adventure book, or a visual novel. Though don't worry, I will be trying to have a lot of interactivity either way, that's not going away. Also no visuals during dialogues lmao - just a novel then, I guess.

Deeper Considerations

You may think this is an excessive amount of work for a game of this nature. I kind of do, too! But I like working on it, I like experimenting with these themes, and I like to express myself in this weird, uncommon way.

Because there is no better way to live your life than to give your best onto projects the majority of people will not care for - no better way to live than to be true to oneself, no matter how odd, weird, embarrassing that self might be.

I'm being a bit too deep, maybe, but I stand by this.

Date of Release

When's the full chapter coming out? I don't know (:

I'm heading into some pretty busy months, so... maybe July? August? I also tend to be a bit obsessive over very small details, so we also have to factor that in. Well, no matter: it will come out eventually.

The third chapter is another story. I am planning for it, and I'll probably develop that too, at a certain point? One step at a time, let's not get ahead of ourselves.

Bugs, dead-ends, glitches: bound to be, tell me, will fix - you know the drill by now.

Ah, right, it's not really related to this project, but I should mention that the guide for my previous game, Emily's Midnight Snack, is now free to download!

Alright, bye.