Good Day Shepherds,

💌 Thank You for 160+ Downloads!

This is Archeia reporting in. 🫡

Seeing so many of you enjoy the weird little world we built has been surreal. Your comments and bug reports have been incredibly helpful — every bit of feedback helps us make the next update even better. We are also very happy and grateful for the donations. Thank you very much for supporting us, especially since this is our first Ren’Py game!❤️💙

I took a day off, only to dive right back into development the next day — determined to squash those bugs as quickly as possible. One thing led to another, and, well… I’m still deep in the throes of game development. We’ve only been using Ren’Py for about 2–3 weeks, so this has been a huge learning experience! Help… me… I’m still in the box… 📦

🗺️ Roadmap…

• Currently, we’re still unsure when we’ll be able to release patch 1.0 but my goal is at the very least November to December.
• After Version 1.0 we would like to release a new batch of sinners for the complete experience.

🐛 About Those Bugs…

• A bug where Shepherd got into a coma for a thousand years before perishing as a result of their power abuse. 😔
• We noticed a weird quirk with Ren’Py’s blur effect — sometimes setting it to Blur 0 doesn’t actually clear the blur completely. To fix that, we’re adding extra checks so the blur will properly reset to 0 every time.

🔍Mysterious Bugs and Features…

• Our daughter, Rais Wyne, would sometimes gain superpowers and jump off screen. The power of love is truly a mystery.
• When music is playing, some of the voices would become quieter. I’m not sure if this is a Ren’Py feature we’re not aware of.

‼️New Content…

Here are some of the new content we’re planning to release with the patch.

• The Nuiquarium.
• Release Hajime Nakajima’s route.
• Release Gunnar Shirai’s route.
• Release a mysterious route.
• Keep endings now have surprises with them.
• More interludes for more Shepherd content.
• More Rais Wyne CGs.
• Extras will contain Ending List per sinner, Gallery and Music Player.
• If October-cham and EJ-cham are free we’d like to have new tracks and sounds!

🧪 Improvements…

• There are framerate drops when interacting with UI parts on some PCs. I converted some of the .webms to frame by frame PNGs hoping to alleviate this issue.
• Keyword Display takes too long to proceed and now requires player input to exit. It also has a new animation when it disappears.
• Skip and Auto texts in Quick Menu now have a display and color change to indicate they’re active.
• Finished and fixed all the Codex screen bugs and features.
• Finished and fixed the Title screen’s navigation menu. It no longer glitches out, has new options and text descriptions. For those with the same issue, removing size_group "navigation" fixed it for us.
• Finished the missing features from the Options menu such as the sliders.

💌 Workflow Improvements…

🎤 About Voice Acting…

Thank you again for playing and supporting God’s Specimen Box.

— The God’s Specimen Box Team