Hello everyone! I'm here today to post a quick update on the game and ask you all something.

To start things off, the game is a lot further in development than you may think. A bunch of things within the game have been finalized and in terms of percentage, I would say the game is about 60-65% percent done already. Here are a list of things that are done in percentage wise.

Game Completion:

Physics:100%
Story Writing:20%
Menus:70%
Gimmicks:85%
Monsters:85%
Asha and Pepe:90%
Shantae:80%
Monkey Form:100%
Elephant Form:100%
Bat Form:100%
Level Design:15%
Items:80%
Tresure Chests:50%
Upgrades:5%
NPCs and Secrets:30%

New/Faster Processes

With that said, the project is going incredibly smooth. I'm learning a lot in the process as well. Not only is it good for this project, but it will set the standard for other projects when I return to them. For example, in a certain project, I didn't know about a pack of codes that could have made my job exponentially easier.

There are several scripts in the game in which I would type like this...
skill_001=false
skill_002=false
skill_003=false....etc

While there is nothing wrong with that, there are MUCH better ways to do this. Instead of typing the skill tree variables out 100 times, I could have used the "repeat" function to do this for me, all while adding any number of new variables instantly.


Question:

Now, I would like to ask all of you a question. Since the 1st chapter of the story is already in development, would you all like an early release or alpha of the game?

The project itself is stable enough to get an idea of what's going on and get some hands on experience before the official demo is released. Plus, it would give us an idea of what you guys think of the project so far and what could be done to improve for future knowledge. It would help a tremendous deal.

That about wraps this up for this update, and I apologize if I kept you all in the dark for too long. Until next time!