Arkana Knight v0.02 Development log

Hi All! Theguyouknow here. It's been a minute since I've posted anything. Life has been in the way, but Arkana Knights is still in development and actually doing pretty well(At least as far as my limited skill set and creating VN's is concerned). That said, Getting to the actual school portion of the game, which will be the main area for the majority of the story from here on out, requires I actually make all my teachers and students and have that schedule in place for consistency. Part of it might be my world builders sickness trying to take over, but Arkana Knights was always intended to have a large cast(well over 100 named characters) and going ahead and making a large chunk of them now rather than later is just as well. For that reason I'm pulling away for the rest of the year so that I can come back strong in January with all my characters made and a decent chunk of Chapter 1 completed. I want to give players a real chance for AK to make an impression for good or bad. I will be uploading one more update in 2023, sometime in November(Patreon has been paused until I return in January so this will be coming straight to Itch.)  This update will include the entire August portion of Chapter 1(as well as a bonus portion that will be skippable in future updates) and cleaned up grammar, as well as the actual music and SFX added to portions after the prologue. 

Otherwise, thank you to everyone who has downloaded the game. I have big plans for this story, and hope I can share it with you soon. If you enjoyed what little portion of the game is available, please consider leaving a rating. It helps boost AK to get it seen by more people.

When I return in January, there should be all of September(first month of school) and at least half of October done for Chapter 1. This will be a much stronger taste of what, as a game and story, AK really is and who will enjoy it. From then on, my work life is too hectic right now to commit to any set release schedule, but I will make it a point to work on 2-7 weeks worth of in game content per update, and never have more than 2 months between updates, though Ideally updates will be on a sporadic month to month basis. Eventually when work calms down and the demand for more AK content is high enough, I will switch to a more set schedule with regular devlogs on how many weeks between updates will be.

Anyway, that's all I wanted to say. Thanks again and I hope you've enjoyed the game. In a few weeks or so Update 0.02 will be out, and then I'll see you all again in January when AK starts updating regularly in earnest.