Hey everyone!

This announcement is a little late since I had to put out several fiery bugs first, but I'm happy to say the electronics escape room is now complete!

This update represents a huge milestone, as it is the most writing I have ever done in such a short amount of time. For comparison, the biggest update so far has been the start of Effera's route, which contained 15k words. However, I had worked on those 15k words for at least half a year before publishing them, so I really wasn't efficient about it at all, LOL.

This month's update, on the other hand, contains 14k words, which I wrote completely from scratch during November (save for some snippets I've been saving up for a while). I'm really proud of this achievement, but it also was a ton of work — so much work that I completely neglected the fact that this month's Demo update was supposed to conclude Effera's route!

Upcoming End of the Demo

I still want to polish her finale before releasing it to the public, so I decided to end things on a cliffhanger once again. Regardless, I hope you're looking forward to the next Demo update, as it will also be the last one!

Ending it on Effera's route has been my intention ever since I started this format. I hope her finale will serve as a satisfying cutoff point, while still leaving you excited for the full game (or the Beta). Thank you for understanding! 

The fact that I'm making an entire 10+ hour route available for free is probably already crazy enough, but I really wanted as many as people to fall in love with the world of Artificial Selection as possible. Still, even I had to pull the breaks at some point. I hope you are not too disappointed by this decision.

Patch Notes

With that out of the way, let's get back to the usual changes and improvements:

• The conclusion to the electronics escape room!*
• One new bad ending!*
• 14k new words. (195,000+ in total)*
• A brand new music track by Zaxcess!
• A new alternate sprite for Kydan & redrew his original one!
• 4 new bonus shop items: New ties for Kydan!
• Added a visible timer to timed choices.
• Improved the perspective shift animation.
• Removed a less meaningful bonding choice for Loye.
• You can now hide the clock (?) but still show the phase title.
• Fixed typos.

*Beta only

I know you're probably dying to see the new Kydan sprite, so here he is in all his glory (featuring one of the beautiful, show-stopping new ties you can get in the bonus shop):

...That being said, if you have any ideas for other terrible ties I can give him, please share them below!

Thank you so much for your support, and see you in the next one!