Dev update:

The new anim count is now up to 6 and the latest anim was the best kind -- it just came to me during development and only took 1 day to complete from start to finish. Compare that to the typical time of 1-3 weeks to complete an animation and you can see why I'm excited. It fits the spirit of level 1 and hopefully folks will like it.

I just completed some new rooms and logic for level 2 that will add some variety and personality to the level. The logic involves decision branching -- i.e., what happens is based on decisions you made during conversations with NPCs -- which is a lot trickier to get right than I expected. RenPy and RPGM have prebuilt decision branching features that devs can leverage, but I'm building my own as I go. Maybe someday there will be a RenPy for sidescrollers...

Here's a peek at one of the new NPCs. Here name is Gemini and that name is intentional. Hopefully you'll get to meet her in a few weeks...