After several long months in development, Still Life has entered the early access release phase of development. While the game is not yet 100% complete, it will be open to the public as a sort of open beta test in which anyone is free to play the game to provide feedback.

Overall completion of the game currently stands at around 75%. All background and character assets are complete, as is the script. In terms of the game's two routes, the Pencil route is 100% implemented (barring bugs that may possibly be revealed during the early access release), and the Mobile Phone route stands at around 60% implementation.

For those of you who've been with us since the demo version (I.E. the dark days when there was but a single background stolen from a desktop background site and Mobile Phone looked like a bar of soap), here's a list of changes from the initial plan:

- The planned Sharpener Route has been put on the back-burner indefinitely. With the amount of time it took to write the script for the Pencil and Mobile routes, it would've been  impossible to  write and implement a third route before the April 28th deadline. As such, Sharpener was downgraded to a supporting character in Pencil's route, as she was too cute to scrap entirely. 

- Backgrounds, like character  sprites, have been fully modeled and rendered out of 3DS Max as nobody on the team is very good at drawing, but all of us are good at 3D modeling.

- As the script eventually grew to be  nearly 120 pages, Still Life is now an executable Windows application in lieu of a browser game like the demo. This carries the  benefit of being playable offline, and untethering your saves from the your cookies and such.

These changes were made in hopes of making Still Life as good a visual novel not made in Ren'Py over several years could be, and we hope that the players are has happy to play the game as we are to deliver it to you.

That's all for now, we hope you are looking forward to Still Life's full release on April 28th.

Stay animate,

Trash-Kaiser and the Still Life development team