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Q3 Progression Update 1

Added 2025-08-17 17:22:47 +0000 UTC

Hi, here's a new progression update.

Like most of you probably know, I'm currently building the necessary early access maps and at the same focusing on the next milestone which is the Steam Next Fest demo in October.

This specific demo will be the "final demo" before the early access release and first week of September, I will release a new devlog video which will cover the specific features that are provided with this demo and most importantly what events and timelines are going to eventually lead to early access trailer, game shows and launch windows etc.

When it comes to this map building process, here's roughly how things are progressing:

Village (95% done)
School (100% done)
Apartments (100% done)
Island (50% done)
Border Zone 2.0 (50% done)
Radar (10% done)
Highway (10% done)

Minimum requirement for Next Fest demo: 4 maps Minimum requirement for Early Access: 7-8 maps

Each of these maps is 4x the size of the old demo maps and some maps like Island (water area) and Border Zone are even larger.

Along with this map building, I have updated a huge number of textures and assets to get an "uniform visual style" which was quite sloppy implemented in the demo. In the upcoming Next Fest demo, you should (hopefully) feel that the game world is now much more balanced in terms of color grading, textures and general visual look.

One final thing that I would like the mention is that there's a lot of preparation work already taking place for the early access trailer.

I have personally felt somewhat annoyed that I have never taken the proper time to make a good trailer for the game, so this time will be different and there's custom music being made, there's specific voice acting and I have hoarded a bunch of "secret" content for that trailer, so there's few surprises definitely coming.

More details in the next devlog :)

-Antti (Developer)