ShonenGames

Hey Shinobi! It's that time of the month again. Here's what we've been working on throughout September: - Continued bug fixes, optimizations, and general improvements across the project. - Created a new prototype island region tied closely to the game's wider story and mythology. - Experimented with new terrain layouts, environment structure, and exploration routes for the island. - Created 7 new characters connected to the island, its history, and the events surrounding it. - Developed and refined the lore, relationships, and story roles for those characters. - Completely redesigned the main capital from the ground up with a much larger and more ambitious layout. - Blocked out new terrain, buildings, structures, districts, and navigation routes for the redesigned capital. - Reworked the capital's identity, history, and story connections to better fit its role in the main narrative. Before we wrap up, we also have one important change to share. Since September 2024, we've published one of these reports every month. After two years, we're retiring the monthly progress report format and moving to quarterly progress recaps. A lot of what we're working on now takes longer than a single month to properly come together. Rather than splitting that work into smaller updates filled with "continued work on...", we'd rather give things more time and show you a more complete picture of what changed. The format itself isn't going away. The recaps will work much like these reports, but they'll cover three months of development at a time. It feels a little strange ending the monthly reports after doing them for so long, but with development currently moving at a slower pace, as we discussed last month, we think quarterly recaps make more sense for where the project is right now. Thank you for your continued support, see you next quarter. 💙