EDIT: FUCK, FORGOT TO RECOMMEND A SET. Here’s from a party I went to with oomf a couple months ago.

It’s fall in the northern hemisphere; The window we explicitly marked as a possible release period for 45pb along with summer, yet there’s not that much noise about the game lately outside of our tokyo game show adventures.

Honestly there’s only good news except for one little thing.

Basically I’m almost done revising text so it can be sent to localization. The first wave of QA bugs has been taken care of, and the bulk of the work otherwise has gone towards replacing any placeholder assets, doing sound checks for cutscenes, and similar tasks to move towards a shippable game.

The one little exception: I still don’t know about a release date.

Not because of work going slowly or anything apocalyptic. We could easily be like “okay, let’s release on christmas” and actually do it, but we’ve had some chilling realizations: We’ve spent a ton of resources and time into 45pb without noticing, and throwing the game into the market just like that, counting on word of mouth and a twitter account feels wrong and honestly, while I think the game could do well like that (and it’s not like we need AAA money to keep us afloat), my concern is that after six years… such launch should have a little more oomph, don’t you think?

We’re still in the process of figuring out the actual release, then. That’s honestly the one real obstacle now that development is its very last stages. There’s an internal deadline to finish the game, but not to release it just yet.

Regarding this, there’s some good food cooking in the background, and if things go well, you should be hearing about 45pb soon and loudly.

If not, well, word of mouth will have to do lol. The game is gonna come out one way or the other. For that you shouldn’t have to worry.

It was tough to accept we’ve taken so long with 45pb, though.

While the current iteration is only a couple years old, getting there required a ton of learning and exploration I wasn’t expecting. My solace is that once this game is finally out in the open, the result is a bunch of systems, knowledge and team work that will translate to faster dev times. My personal goal is to make at least 5 more games in the next 10 years, if not more.

The industry is heading towards a scary fucking reality, and I need to get out as many games as possible before it all goes down the drain. And also to prepare for a future where personal computing becomes the equivalent of sitting in the cuck chair; More than it currently is, anyway. The point is that I want none of that and need an exit plan lol

Newsletter should follow shortly after this dev log (give it like a couple days to a week). If you’re not subscribed yet make sure to do so here.

It was nice to write another one of these even if I didn’t have any cool dev anecdotes, or even real news to share. All in all I wanted to let you all know development is going well and we’re currently figuring out the launch aspect.

Bye for now!

PS: Over the weekend I worked on a cool game for Ludum Dare 60. It’s about taking care of old computers!

Play here

Also, the Two Essays about Loneliness double CD is about to sell out. Make sure to grab a copy here while you can.

This is a very special experiment to me, as it was a dream come true to sell these at comiket. Give this remaining inventory a nice home, will you?

Chilly morning, a latte and leftover pizza. That means I have time to cook a new dev log.

Seems the last post was making the rounds! Now people think the game is done and all I have to do is make the text look chinese. Lemme remind you all that I still have to make environments look pretty, tweak balance, bug fix, revise the script, and, and…

Actually, that last part has been my focus lately. The game itself has beats that feel right, but as a “unified whole” it lacked a certain consistency. Like, I’ve been taking so long with this project, I feel there’s three different versions of myself fighting to be heard, and I had to choose which “kiri” has the most accurate vision of what .45 PARABELLUM BLOODHOUND is in order to keep things moving forward.

Anyway, I’m happy people are so hyped. I’m doing my best to figure out a proper release date within the next month or two, even if there’s always a chance of the game needing more time in the oven than expected.

Not a whole else to report other than what I just wrote. The programmer has been refactoring and cleaning up a bunch of code to make the game more stable and easier to debug. I’ve been working on polishing the game’s script mostly, though this week I’ll start work cutting a draft for a new trailer and apply tweaks to the second chapter, which is the weakest at the moment after a play testing session we had. I also need to keep reviewing additional art and music being made for all sorts of places inside the game.

There’s so much to do still! But it’s all fun. I only felt overwhelmed by the script revision, and once the difficult part was done life became way less heavy. I can breath once again.

Extra observation: I think the game has taken an unexpected but really cool direction when it comes to the pacing and mood. I’ll explain what I mean in a postmortem (if I remember to do so), but it’s clear that I started the game with a certain energy in mind, and in trying to get there, a new color was born. Any new adjustments I make should take this cool new vibe in mind instead of forcing a “scale” that isn’t there anymore.

Never forget: Style is born from the attempt! I love what 45pb turned into.

That should be all for now.

PS: Before I forget, you should play this new game I made with a friend. It’s called A Short Story from The Guts, available now on itch.io! Had a lotta fun trying a new type of art style and tools.

Makina has to grow up, but what’s the point of that?
She could just be someone’s pet.

This was part of a game jam organized for our discord server. Give the rest of the games a try—they all bang and fuck hard, so please check them out!

Consider this the dev log for December 2025 and January 2026. Also, check out this set that helped me grind a big chunk of work in the past month!

What it says on the tin.

Today marks the day where every single story event and encounter is now fully playable. A lot of polishing awaits us and don’t get me wrong— it’s a ton of work! but it’s all far more predictable.

No new content will be added, no new sections. Just bug fixing and making things look pretty or play/read better. QOL improvements, optimization, editing, localization. Like I said, it’s a ton, just more predictable.

If everything goes well we’ll divulge a release date in a couple months.

Stay tuned!

This is definitely my favorite part of development, and I’m getting that feel I had when we were about wrap up VA-11 Hall-A’s development; with a combination of good anxiety and bad anxiety.

The only difference is that we’re self-publishing this time, so a ton more is falling on our shoulders. We’re betting on ourselves, and we have no clue if it’s gonna be worth it by the end of it.

This current stage implies more grind than problem solving, so don’t expect me to talk much from here unless catastrophic things happen that make us rewrite systems or something. Or funny anecdotes. Let’s hope for funny anecdotes!

Wish us luck, too.

Oh yeah, we’ve been recording footage to cut a couple of trailers with. I’d venture to say that the season where we’ll be very annoying about this game is fastly approaching.

Can’t wait to unleash this into the world. We’ve been working on 45pb for a good chunk of our lives, even though this was supposed to be a quick 2-year project….. LOL… how innocent we were.

While the game is still very low-key and made with obvious budget and time constraints, most the dev time was spent straight up learning how to even make a 3D game in the first place. It’s the first time we do something even remotely similar to what you see, so yeah, it was bound to take its sweet freaking time.

I do not plan to make games for longer than two years after this, though. I’m confident in our new style of development and I’m confident in our tools as well. I’m sure future dev cycles will be very normal.

Let’s aim for the top!

I realized that I didn’t share a set last month. Here’s a really good one from Perc, who played at my favorite club in the city of fury earlier in the year.

A couple weeks removed from actual November, but here we are.

As mentioned in the last entry, at least half of November was meant to be a break for me, and it was! Had a ton of fun going to Iguazú and the Bôa concert in Buenos Aires, which was amazing! as expected from such a beloved band that’s finally getting their flowers thanks to the magic of the wired.

Can’t help but get emotional thinking about the many many life experiences I’d be missing out on hadn’t I escaped my country of origin…

While I was on my break, our programmer had been taking care of a long list of tasks, until some small hiccups affected his ability to lock in. Things are OK now, but they could be better.

Said tasks mostly concerned the wonky UI and controls during battle that made it difficult to choose between items and spells, among other more pressing issues with the game’s balance. I also really appreciate that he took the time to write this long document, detailing how the numbers should be dealt with as the player progresses through the game, plus suggested item availability and recommended amount of money that should be earned per battle. This is one of my weak points (bad at math) so I’m super grateful that he took the time to do it for me.

Shoutouts to his girlfriend for being a really good tester!

Before I went on my break I mostly wrote some new scenes and made some motion capture tests with Mocopi, to mixed results.

Tried to replicate that one Tyler dance to funny results.

I don’t think I’ll be using this for full production, but it was fun to mess around with it. Maybe I’m missing something with the calibration? Like this thing deadass didn’t wanna capture something as simple as sitting down.

I’ll deal with it properly in due time. In the mean time I have to take care of setting up what’s going to be the new intro to the game, among many other tasks.

As for the contents: we’re almost there! There’s only one boss left, plus the remaining narrative sections and their updated dialogues. Still a ton of work, but we’ve been through worse.

That’s all for now! See you all in January.

Wild month. Felt like it lasted a year; both in good and horribly bad ways.

The news that are most relevant to you all though is definitely the fact we shattered our own expectations regarding the boss fight design and implementation.

We initially thought they’d be ready by December or something, and that end of October seemed like too tight of a deadline considering past experiences.

Well, we’ve been working on the last boss fight for like a week or so, and only stopped to stabilize the enemy behavior scripts. Virtually all of the important game content is implemented, barring some new scenes I wrote to fill some gaps I forgot were there, and the last playable scene. So, not quite content complete yet… but close.

Development will likely slow down a little in November as I want to take a little break, though the programmer will continue the grind with the final boss. My computer also blew up and I’ve been using my laptop as a backup, so no environment polishing on my end until I take care of that.

What’s next after the game reaches content completion? Let me repeat myself: Balance, polish, heavy testing and localization, among many other things that could either make development faster or slower.

There’s also the game’s story. The whole script is in dire need of an editing pass and that’s what I’m working on as I write this, alongside Sukeban’s manager Taku, who’s gonna be in Argentina for the rest of the month.

Honestly impressive so much was achieved. We went from thinking we could MAYBE have the fourth boss fight done by early November, but the gamedev demons posessed our souls and got to the 7th in what feels like a blink.

I also got a hold of a motion capture thingie I’ve been meaning to test for a while and it’s been hit or miss. I’ll explain that on the next dev log.

In all honesty, October was incredible productivity-wise and I don’t know if I can go back to a long distance thing. Feedback is so instant and things move so fast. Plus the energy of listening to music and cracking jokes with friends as we build something cool next to each other is super invigorating. Makes me wanna do my best.

There’s still so much I want to write about, but this will have to do for now. Between work and having fun it’s been hard to find a space for myself to chill and write these. Catastrophic events in my personal life aside, it’s been good. Real good.

In non-45pb news, one of the Va11hallA collabs I was talking about in another dev log is already on going with the Astral Party DLC. The other one should be arriving early next year. What game could it be?

That’s it for now. Bye!

Here’s an excellent set by Mari Sakurai to a crowd that refused to dance for some reason.

September was a weird month. Some good progress mixed with long periods of inactivity thanks to a bad July that doesn’t want to end.

tl;dr: my personal life has been in shambles for months.

Things got a lot easier eventually, and several sources of major stress are not there anymore, for which I’m thankful like you wouldn’t believe.

At one point life felt asphyxiating; like the walls of my apartment were closing in on me, with no exit in sight.

I’m glad I can breath again.

While I’m not fully out of the woods yet, work can resume as usual… this time with the programmer to my side!

That’s right, for a month and change we’ll be working together at the little room I call an office in Buenos Aires, and so far the results are promising, with tasks that would usually take us weeks being realized in only a couple days (sometimes hours) thanks to quick feedback and good vibes.

Just yesterday we were working on the 4th boss fight over jokes, delicious coffee and Faye Webster music, who’s my current obsession.

Work is fun, if you can believe it.

Going back to what we did in September: We concluded work on the 2nd and 3rd boss fights. The 3rd one had some rough patterns already, but we did the rest shortly before and after the programmer arrived to Argentina; including modeling, texturing and animation. The second phase, if you can call it that, was done in a couple hours. I love the little sequence we made for this battle.

We’re almost done with the 4th boss fight as of this writing, and we expect to start the 5th one next week. (I need to remind everyone that we have 7th boss fights planned for this game.)

Now, I don’t wanna get ahead of myself here, but what if we pushed through and actually implemented every boss by late October? Wouldn’t that be crazy?

Let’s hope that happens.

I can’t really show or say much about September aside from what I just wrote. Posting screenshots will spoil surprises, and to be honest we didn’t do that much during the first half for reasons outside of our control like I said at the beginning.

What’s important is that we’re healthy and on schedule once more, working hard to reach this next milestone. Priorities right now are entirely focused on boss fights, balance and writing. The story needs a third pass so bad, like, it’s genuinely whack right now but it’s nothing I can’t structure properly once it’s time to do a full run of the game like we did not that long ago.

That’s it for now.

Peace!

If anyone’s asking: Yes, the eternal July is still on-going, but we keep on trucking.

What if I just shared a cool set every time I write these? Guido Sartoris is from the local scene and his taste is impeccable. He’s actually having a set with mother effin’ Juan Atkins this weekend. Fucked up good.

Feels like I say this every time I write a dev diary, but it’s a fact that the game’s development picked up dramatically once everything fell into place. Things I thought were gonna take longer were in fact not that hard to do, like the “type B” cutscenes. I essentially finished most of the planned ones, so the next step is to complete all boss fights before I work on the cooler “type A” cutscenes.

Type A: Involves intricate animation and camera angles. Movies, basically.

Type B: These work with canned animations, has minimal camera work and movement is reduced to only the necessary. You have to manually advance dialogue. (None of this is industry lingo btw; I made it all up)

Think of the difference you see in games like Yakuza, where side missions are presented in a different way than the movies.

Boss fights are definitely the hardest part of development right now. It’s also super fun so we don’t mind. All we do is test the game over a call and tweak whatever we see off.

My hope is that we can wrap up all of these battles by sometime in October. Somewhat doubtful…

We’ll see.

We did a ton more this month. Like, I was finally able to work on so many things I’ve been delaying for a long time, and font rendering was definitely at the top of my “I’ll get to this later” list.

My indie peers that also happen to work with low res 3D probably know what I’m about to discuss here. The fact that you either need to use pixel art fonts to keep things consistent with the game’s resolution, or use a high-res font for everything UI and forget about it.

Nothing against pure pixel art fonts, but man, they just didn’t fit that well in this game for a lot of the elements, like dialogue and in-game websites.

Usually the way I fix this is by using a physical canvas that’s affected by post-processing, but I learned that method after the fact, and the game handles a TON of canvases, and they’re coded a certain way and bla bla.

Too much work.

Then the other day I woke up from a dream and it all came to me: “Can I use bitmap fonts with text mesh pro?”

You can, but it’s weird, and it’s boring to explain why.

I’ll just cut to the chase and tell you how to use normal fonts in your epic PS1 style game.

Let’s say I wanna use this font. Sure, drop it inside a canvas. The problem is that once you display the game at a higher resolution while using an overlay canvas, the text will look crispier than the rest of the game; doesn’t matter if you use a low resolution canvas and your 3D is low res; the text doesn’t give a shit.

Okay, grab the font file and make the resolution smaller.

Nope.

Text mesh pro will do some weird filtering to it and it will look like this. Definitely not what we want.

Okay, we’re getting somewhere. What I did here is I grabbed the font we just converted to low resolution (36 pixels here), choose smooth_hinted as its render mode, then set its shader to bitmap. That was the keyword all along, bitmap!

Now all you have to do is set the texture atlas’ filtering to point and…

That’s a bingo!

Is that the way you say it? “That’s a Bingo”?

Ignore how it looks a little distorted, it all depends on the font. The point is that now I can finally use any font I want and have it look consistent with the rest of the game. I’m still using some pixel art fonts for the smaller text of course, but it’s no longer obligatory.

Now… I wouldn’t call this a victory. It’s actually wake up call: These engines, Unity, Unreal, whatever the fuck; They’re not your friends, and I think as developers we should start spreading more knowledge on how to make our own tools instead of trying to fit a square peg into a round hole.

All this time I could have done this and have the game look cooler, but it took me a vision quest while sleeping to remember that bitmap fonts existed and start experimenting with the settings.

I’d really love it if I could just do this type of shit myself from scratch on a whim instead of fighting someone else’s program, but whatever.

This is how dialogues look now. All a work in progress of course.

Gonna keep playing around with the typography for months to come I feel.

How it used to look like. I also changed the window since I’m playing around with that too.

Oh yeah, the game has working planar reflections now, and you best believe I’ll abuse the shit out of it whenever I need shiny surfaces.

I’ve no idea if this will work on consoles; that will be the problem of whoever ports this. I know for a fact it works awesome on the Steam Deck.

(I don’t think there’s a legit reason it shouldn’t, I was just worrying that Proton was gonna throw a fit)

On that note, our priority and main target is PC at the moment. Further versions will be outsourced if there’s demand.

I don’t remember if I mentioned this here, but we’ll be self-publishing 45PB, and that means a lot less resources for ports.

.45 PARABELLUM BLOODHOUNDWishlist now on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3014650/…#45pb

— sukeban games (@sukeban.moe) 2025-08-23T02:24:27.219Z

People who follow us on social media were also privy of this old-school ad I made for the game.

For this I used artwork from way back in 2017; before the game even had one line of code written.

45PB was nothing but cool ideas and vibes in 2017, and actual development wouldn’t begin until 2020; Though I like to think production started in 2022; that’s when we locked in the current direction.

Okay, time to wrap this up.

In short:

There’s 4 bosses yet to be designed and implemented, once we finish these encounters I’ll devote myself to Type A cutscenes and environment/level design polish. There’s sound design too but I’ll do that in tandem with the rest.

Current main worry aside from boss fights is that the story is a little wack and I need to play this from start to end with the story in place to see what needs to be trimmed (working on it, as chapter 5 needs a little rewrite that affects chapter 6).

That’s really it. 45PB feels like it will finish production not too that far into the future, even though we still gotta do heavy QA and localization before we commit to a release date.

Making games is hard, guys. Holy shit.

I also wouldn’t want to do anything else. We’re cooking, trust.

Very good mix I listened to while writing this entry.

Big milestone, gamers: I’m done putting together the game’s sixth and seventh chapters. That means the game is playable from start to end. Well, it will be on Monday, when we do some plumbing and start linking chapter 5 with 6, and 6 with 7. It’s minutes-worth of work.

Let’s grab the list from last month to see where we are.

• Finish remaining enemies (create models, rigs, textures and code behaviors)
  • Remaining normal enemies that use custom models are kind of finished, we just need to add more classes to an existing group, then throw them into the last level.
• Finish implementation of fights and puzzles for the last two chapters (this would make the whole game playable from start to end. Alpha build?)
  • This is done.
• Finish remaining boss fights (create models, rigs, textures, code their behaviors and design the fights)
  • This is what we’re gonna focus on moving forward. It’s by far the most challenging task at this stage of development.
• Environment and asset polish (includes baking final lighting for all maps, getting rid of placeholder models, etc.)
  • Will do after we’re out of the woods with the boss fights, but I’ll keep tweaking every level and animation etc. here and there until the very end anyway. It’s a perpetual work in progress.
• Sound polish (finalize music mixing, environment sounds, sound effects, etc.)
  • Only one level has proper sound design and I need to lock in with this. Shouldn’t take me very long with June’s help.
• Implement and polish remaining cinematic sequences and narrative sections
  • Will work on this throughout August in between boss fight design and testing.
• Heavy QA, balancing.
  • It’s ramping up this month.
• Hit beta state. This will kickstart a different roadmap towards the game’s release.
  • I’ve no idea when this will happen. Well, I do, I just don’t wanna say.

The incredible part of it all is that we’re a whole month ahead of schedule. Our forecast was to reach this stage in September, but the 7th chapter is an oddity that was also mostly functional since last year. And things could have gone faster, but July was mentally taxing. Still is! My July just keeps going on and on.

Recent experience does make it very clear where the bottleneck is, though. If we ever make a game like this again, I’ll definitely hire a level designer that can also help with game design. I’m wearing way too many hats that I’m happy to wear, but it makes development take such a long time, and I’m running out of it. There’s just not enough time for everything I wanna do in life. I need to stop messing around and learn how to delegate more.

Going back to development talk, chapter six was challenging. Like, REALLY challenging. It’s still in a rough state, but I finally reached a point where I’m sort of happy with the way it flows.

The thing is that many of these battles really do push players to use all items they’ve been holding onto, and also makes them tweak Reila’s build in a way previous stages didn’t (for the most part), so I’ll apply the lessons learned here for early battles. It’s gonna be fun since it’s a matter of numbers and fun enemy combinations.

Chapter 7 balance is still funky, as enemies only deal very little damage on fully upgraded armors. I gotta sit down and do some proper math.

I’m excited to start working on bosses, story and and atmosphere stuff. It’s what I do best, and the forecast is very optimistic. The game’s release is no longer in some nebulous future. It hasn’t been for a while, but you know what I mean.

One step at a time.

Here’s a cute Anna I drew (forma de .45 PARABELLUM BLOODHOUND)

In unrelated news to 45PB: If things go well, this second half of the year should see some very interesting collabs involving va11halla, as well as a merch thingie (unrelated to va11halla) that we’ve been meaning to push out since December. Hope you guys like it.

See you all next month, and pray that my terrible July ends soon.

Shoutouts to Daniel of the Lamp #weebobeebogaming

Last month I said (I think? I forget what I write, if I’m being honest) that we’d dedicate June to playtesting and balancing. This is so we can properly design the combat for the last two remaining chapters by taking advantage of everything we’ve built so far, and around the maximum possible amount of upgrades obtainable by players by the time they get there.

Well, that’s exactly what we did. It took longer than we thought, but it was pretty much four weeks of locking in, changing numbers and fixing a billion bugs.

The verdict? Well, the game is fully playable up until the end of chapter 5. And I’ve said many times before how this or that level is playable or polished, etc. but there’s a big difference here: I’m talking about starting a new game, and going through it like a normal player would instead of using debug tools and shortcuts. A LOT was broken and prevented me from progressing, but we fixed things as we went and the game is very stable as of now.

I obviously have to see other people that don’t know the game very well play 45pb and gauge their reactions, but so far? It was better balanced than I initially thought. The trickiest part is making money, since it’s possible to get soft locked by seemingly impossible fights.

Example: Let’s say there’s three enemies that will (unintentionally) hit you no matter what you do. You could try to tank it and dodge as much as possible, but eventually you’ll perish. You could upgrade your armor, or buy a new implant or skill that makes that particular fight easier, but you lose money when you die. Players will then try to find other fights to make that money back, but what if there isn’t any other encounter to do so? That’s the sort of scenario I saw at least once, and I know the game like the palm of my hand, so it’s safe to assume there’s similar bottlenecks elsewhere.

By the way, I already know how to adjust this; I’m just describing the sorta thing we’re actively trying to find so the game can be completed with a reasonably upgraded Reila by the end of it.

I did see it’s possible to do a no-upgrade run; it’s just incredibly difficult to pull it off.

Difficult AND tedious. Dealing damage with a base gun on latter enemies that have more defense and HP is cock ball torture. You will literally deal 1-5 damage on dudes with 500+ HP.

But hey, I’ve seen people plat games that do even worse things.

The 8 million storage keys incident

During chapter 5 I kept noticing how the game was getting increasingly slow. Loading screens kept getting longer, and triggering battles would tank the frame rate into the teens. Fucked up stuff.

We got worried. Is there a memory leak? Could be, but it doesn’t make sense. The game doesn’t degrade over time, no. If the game was slow when you exit chapter 5, then it will be slow when you load it back again. And up until then we had been playing for a solid five to six hours with no slowdown issues or long loading times. So what exactly is going on?

The engine’s console describes every step of the game’s programming. It registers what happens during battles, when you change scenes, and all of that. That’s how I noticed the game checks for the inventory when you enter a fight or while loading a saved game; The two common scenarios where the game would start chugging like crazy.

The programmer took a look, and there they were: Eight million “storage keys” from the previous dungeon, bloating the save file to a deathly degree (it even crashed the engine several times).

The game struggled HARD to load them all, and to top it all off, they kept duplicating every frame and we had no clue about when it began to do so.

Maybe something happened when going from chapter 4 to 5? That must be it.

Then it kept happening with a completely different item!

I’m not gonna bore you with details of how it was fixed. I’m also not the programmer of the project and I wouldn’t be able to recall the process done. But the end result was a deep refactoring of the data management side. And at the end of it we accidentally laid the ground for a New Game + mode. I’m not sure we’ll pull the trigger on that, but it’s not that crazy a possibility anymore.

Despite it all, the game ended up in a very healthy place. We saw how much of the actual game we neglected due to working almost exclusively in “developer mode”, which we’ll definitely take note of for the next project. I was also able to work on texturing new enemies, implement remaining puzzles and fights for chapter 5 (plus some environment polish), extra groundwork for chapter 6, as well as brainstorming a little for the game’s ending.

(The ending is already written (has been for a long time), we just needed to hammer down some of the more minute details so certain scenes don’t feel out of place or out of character.)

The fight ahead

This month of July I’m going back to the usual grind, and do my best to finish the encounters for the last two stages and whatever else I see that could be important.

The roadmap ahead kinda looks like this right now:

• Finish remaining enemies (create models, rigs, textures and code behaviors)
• Finish implementation of fights and puzzles for the last two chapters (this would make the whole game playable from start to end. Alpha build?)
• Finish remaining boss fights (create models, rigs, textures, code their behaviors and design the fights)
• Environment and asset polish (includes baking final lighting for all maps, getting rid of placeholder models, etc.)
• Sound polish (finalize music mixing, environment sounds, sound effects, etc.)
• Implement and polish remaining cinematic sequences and narrative sections
• Heavy QA, balancing.
• Hit beta state. This will kickstart a different roadmap towards the game’s release.

Now, this list is extremely optimistic and reductive, since development can hit any kind of obstacles and things are far more complex than drawing a circle and then the rest of the owl. But from a bird’s view, this is what we need to do to finish 45PB. It’s a lot! But many of these items can be done in a month depending on the complexity. In my experience, boss fights will be the hardest to get right.

We have a loose idea of how long this is gonna take, and so far we’re on schedule for a change. Things are going well, and I guess we’ll see what July has in store for us.