Harem in Another World Devlog #28 Looking back whilst looking forward

HIAW 0.7 Current Status :

Writing: 30%

Coding: 35%

Art: 20%

Animation: 0%

Current release date estimate April

(FFS I wrote out this whole bloody devlog and the page reloaded and erased it all! Patreon is so glitchy sometimes. Anyway, let me try and remember everything I wrote)

I was clearing out my dropbox this week and found something that I thought I had lost forever, the first ever build of Harem in Another World! Back when it still had the working title Adventure Through Time. And let me tell you, it's shite. So glitchy, filled with errors, you can't progress any further than unlocking the castle, The entire dock area you can't walk on because it's the wrong type of flooring. It uses default assets or pictures I took of the internet. It's a real mess, but for me at least it's interesting to see how far the game has come.  I've uploaded it here if you're interested in checking it out. The large file size is because its got all the default assets included.

I noticed whilst playing, I made a joke about this early build in a recent version that literally no one would understand apart for me! I reference the original starting character and how he was replaced. I guess now at least some other people can understand the joke!

Back to the present day, I released v0.65 about a week ago, normally I would have held off and just wrapped it all up into 0.7, but the autosave functionality seemed like a pretty key feature and I was keen to roll it out asap. As the intro scene had already be rewritten I figured why not include that as well and have a mini update.

I'm about 2/3rds through the temple arc, should have that finished in the next couple of weeks.

I've cleared out all of the old default faces, they are either getting replaced with new drawn ones of ditched completely if they are not an important character. 

I've also added a cutscene earlier on in the game, after you finish the Arena, which alludes to the big bad and the wider story more. Not sure how I'll show it to returning players yet. Probably just add an option in to the fairy room

Thanks again for all your support so far!

If you own the game on Steam please consider leaving it a positive review, It's now close to the threshold of moving from "Positive" to "Very Positive" which is a great milestone to hit! Itch ratings and anywhere else are also massively appreciated!

Catch you in the next update

Jong