Hello, everyone, and happy 2024! [img]https://clan.akamai.steamstatic.com/images/41620871/494cfd1501a0818ec1687231fcadd909f66529c8.png[/img] Since The Silent Kingdom's Kickstarter campaign, I've been working on it day by day. Being a game made by a single person and having so much text and graphics, its development is not as fast as games made by a team, but it's still been steady, I would like to comment on what's new, as well as the current status of the project. First of all, the prologue (seen in the demo available on Steam) has been redone and improved, with noticeable graphical changes and some new dialogues and details. Here are some comparison screenshots. Forest: [img]https://clan.akamai.steamstatic.com/images/41620871/88dd9aa752c254d74fad7ba62e91e71d310ca4f7.png[/img] Gardens: [img]https://clan.akamai.steamstatic.com/images/41620871/9a40d4608cb684fbc36b6eacad38ab6152830404.png[/img] New text boxes. Blue choices offer extra dialogue without advancing the main conversation. [img]https://clan.akamai.steamstatic.com/images/41620871/5633738bc8c1f47a253529ba836f70c390b34701.png[/img] [b]The new version of the demo will not be published until later[/b], when the game's release is close. [img]https://clan.akamai.steamstatic.com/images/41620871/db580a141be008284fff51339f3133b479e3905c.png[/img] My plan is to release the game on Steam as Early Access, in a version that will contain both the prologue and Chapter 1, and that will be updated as the development of each chapter is finished, being 3 chapters in total. Chapter 1 is 70% complete! [img]https://clan.akamai.steamstatic.com/images/41620871/347a946668846d6c4c59f00f7d65a868d59023d5.png[/img] [img]https://clan.akamai.steamstatic.com/images/41620871/bc98e6fc6f799a0b8dcf27dbd4daca406851295a.png[/img] [img]https://clan.akamai.steamstatic.com/images/41620871/62a0627c58e95115b57ea2996b61cba2ab38e76a.png[/img] The battle system will be reworked, and this time it will show character animations. [img]https://clan.akamai.steamstatic.com/images/41620871/9b2daa77b5dc4d66ffc915513eb4873c73d27d16.png[/img] In addition, the game now has its own soundtrack, composed by [b]Mikel Dale[/b]. You can find a [url=https://x.com/mikeldalemusic/status/1543685125157703680?s=20]demo of the main theme on his twitter.[/url] [img]https://clan.akamai.steamstatic.com/images/41620871/8745de72a38c9b41ed466928f12149d6058495f1.png[/img] [img]https://clan.akamai.steamstatic.com/images/41620871/db580a141be008284fff51339f3133b479e3905c.png[/img] Many thanks to all of you who have added The Silent Kingdom to your wishlist! I will continue to work diligently to get Chapter 1 out as soon as possible. If you'd like to follow news about the development more closely, don't hesitate to visit the [url=https://twitter.com/LuckyCatOtome]official twitter account[/url].