Ah, 2025! You gotta love it when a year is also a square number. Calling it now: 2025 is gonna be a good year for us. We had a lovely and restful holiday break and have enjoyed the opportunity for a mental reset and now we’re ready to look forward and face the coming year head on.

But first, let’s look back on 2024, and what we were up to in December. On the writing side, progress is continuing for Francesco’s script! Tobi’s writing time has been limited recently due to other responsibilities, but she’s managed to get a really cool scene in that I am super excited for. Francesco’s route is walking the line between adorable and kinda freaky, it’s so much fun seeing it develop. Here’s a snippet with one possible result of Vesper’s latest adventure with Francesco:

On Oleander’s side, it would be fair to describe the script as mostly complete. There’s still a bunch of work that needs to be done on the script, but in terms of words written, it’s mostly there and we can turn our attention to other things: making sure we have all our visual assets, implementing audio (which Cajsa has begun to do!) and generally making things nice. My edit notes look pretty wild out of context, so hopefully that’s a good sign for what’s to come!

We’ve also put together a tentative plan for this year (or part of it, depending on when things finish up). In the broad strokes, we have two updates planned for 2025: a minor update that will clean up a few script mistakes we missed and add another small chunk of content that gives you a second Vesper date, and a major update that will contain Oleander and Francesco’s second chapters that will come some time after.  There’s more we have in mind that we’re pretty excited about, but as always we’re being a bit vague intentionally, to avoid making promises when we're not 100% sure we can keep them. We’ll keep you posted, and we’ll hopefully have some extremely fun news to share very soon!

As for the coming month, our plans are to continue as before. January is looking to be a very low-key month for us, which should be pretty nice. We’ll plug away at things in the background, and hopefully in our January round-up we’ll have something nice to share!