Starlight Shoals

Hi guys! It's, errr...been a while, hasn't it? We're actually coming up on two years since the game was first announced! So you might be wondering, "how far along is it? Surely it's almost done by now? When do we get to play it?!"

Well, I'll tell ya. The game is NOT anywhere near finished, but some things have changed since I last blogged here. Mainly, I've sorted out lots of personal issues that were getting in the way of me working on the game, which means I'm going to be effectively chipping away at it every day for the foreseeable future. I'm committed to getting this dang thing done, no matter what it takes!!

With that in mind, I've set a schedule for myself with goals and milestones that roughly estimate how much time it'll take me to finish each section of the game, and...wait for it...I have an actual target release date to announce.

Several release dates, actually! The first is a week from now -- on 12/17/2019, I'll be releasing the long-awaited third demo, complete with all the things I promised would be in it last year (a new dungeon, a new town, 15000+ words of new dialogue, a ton of tweaks and refinements to battles/the battle system, an optional date with Amori, and more). I'm expecting to have at least two or three more demos out after this one, though I'm not quite ready to set hard dates for them yet (the next one will probably be coming in February/March of next year).

Even more importantly, on 12/17/2020, a year from the release of said demo, I'll be releasing the finished version of the base game, with the full start-to-finish playthrough of Reame's story. This will NOT be the final version -- it probably won't include all the New Game+ features I have planned, or all the sidequests, and definitely not the super secret other playthrough that no one knows about...

So to round this off, I'm announcing that on 7/17/2021, I'll be releasing the finalized version of the game, titled Starlight Shoals+. While the base game will present a complete 20-30 hour story to rival any classic JRPG, the "plus" version will add another 20-ish hours on top of that and reframe the entire narrative from a darker perspective, with much more challenging battles that'll take full advantage of the game's potential...and, by extension, the player's potential. Do you have the strength of will to make it through?

I could also talk about my plans for Sunlight Shoals, the sequel, but let's focus on the next year and a half first! The tides of time are flowing fast, and I can't WAIT to show you what's coming~