Dawn Chorus

I'm coming back for another update, this time for most of the routes: *our whole main cast other than Klaus and Torulf (but including Guðrún). For all three, we have three new after-breakfast scenes to choose from, in a manner similar that we've employed for days 1 and 2. All have some smaller or bigger variations for specific routes. We hope you enjoy these more lighthearted scenes before we dive into more personal territory again near the end of Day 5! It's a mid-sized update with >9k words of new content split across the new scenes. I had to hurry with it a bit; it was a busy month not unlike December, with me moving to Athens and being swamped with assignments for my postgrad studies. I have finally settled in here and the bulk of the update was done in the latter half of the month; now I need to finish working on detailed sketches for day 5 and epilogues, so that I can commission all the artwork we need. The next update will feature smaller, cosier scenes that are supposed to conclude these three; I hoped to include them in this update, but I wasn't able to finish them in time. After that, there's another round of hanging out before we we're starting with Jørgen's party that streamlines the spiral of events. I truly can't wait to get to writing the very ends of each route so that I can share them with you! Other content in this update include: - new illustrations for the first kiss with Lake, done by Yvonn with additional shading by our Haku - new jumps: for each of the characters, now you can jump either to the newest update, or to the beginning of Day 5 - Lars, our patron, taking place of the luthier on Rune's route with a brand new sprite - a change to Lake's end of Day 3 - I brought back the earlier wording of the choice and other elements of the previous version of the scene - lots of fixes and small improvements for earlier scenes Thank you all for supporting us. I hope you'll enjoy this update! - Keo v0.53.1 N/A v0.50 Hi folks! Before the full update drops near the end of the month, I wanted to share Jørgen's portion of it with you now. It wraps Jørgen's day 4 finally, adding the few last scenes to what you've seen in v0.49. Lake's part of the update was being worked on in parallel, so half of it is already done. Also in works is an illustration for it, once again by Voidhound , but it's likely to be ready after the initial release. v0.48 The new update is here - and inside it, the rest of Bjørn's day 4! Writing the new scenes was a great fun, perhaps even a bit self-indulgent in some points, but with no detriment to the new content. Inside there's also a new Bjørn illustration, some minor fixes, and some cat scenes too v0.47 Jørgen & Rune (Patreon) I'm coming back to you with a double update this month - a first in quite a while for Jørgen , and also another pawful of scenes for Rune . In the former I was happy to open day 4 for our favourite bat and show him from more sides, and the latter wasn't planned until the last month, when I thought I could write another scene or two for the end of Rune's day 4, and then it grew quite considerably. This time too I included jumps straight to the new content, under Jump to route and fixed issues you reported with it, however it's still an experimental feature and might not work 100% alright, I can't promise the saves made with it will work with next updates. There's also a new illustration by Haku for Jørgen and some new sounds by me. Rune's part of the update will receive an illustration later! v0.46 For now that's an update for Torulf: Dogtooth path and maybe another one for the black cat! As it's close to the end of the month and I won't have more content ready soon, I'm releasing this one starting from 5$ tier, but it's still a preview build - smaller (~4k words) and less polished than a full update. v0.45 v0.45 with an update for Devon's route, going until the end of day 4, is finally here! One illustration we're waiting for will come later, but it's not crucial for the flow of scenes. v0.44.1 A preview build for Mikko's update is now ready. More of a work in progress than half of an update this time, I wanted to share this version of it with you before I get to polishing some stuff and adding a scene or two. I hope you'll enjoy it! v0.43.0 Branny is still working hard on the new update for Lake, but we already have a preview build featuring most of the content for it ready for you! A rather big one already, I hope it'll cover your cute lion person needs for now ;3 Also, the new build features a slightly reworked Rune. We brought back the black jacket and gave him a bit softer body. Still a bit of a work in progress, but rather an upgrade! Halloween 2024 As the Blood Moon rises, something blinks between the trees; you're failing to push through the snow... Find out what lurks in the dark in new Halloween Special Dawn Chorus update, a fun, short and kinky story, featuring illustrations by Toztr , available now! v0.42.3 N/A v0.42 The long awaited update for Rune is finally here! I don't want to spoil much, but I'll say it is a rather wholesome one and I hope you'll be happy with it c: There's some new visuals and some new music inside too, including a sprite by Haku, illustration by deffie and a track by me. What else? The first half of Bjørn's day 1 along with a few other early scenes received some additional polish to bring the quality of the prose closer to the later days, and, in case of Bjørn, to fix some glaring inconsistencies for which I am terribly sorry. There's also a new illustration by Ghost ( @monopoly360 ) - if you thought that the cafe scene with Devon from the last update desperately needed one, then I'm happy to say that there is one now! v0.41.2 Rewrote portions of Torulf's Day 3 and Day 4 scenes to fix some narrative inconsistencies. Fixed a gallery issue that some readers experienced. v0.41 Expanded Bjørn content into Day 4. Expanded Torulf: Snouts path content. New music and visual assets for these new scenes, including an animated illustration by our phenomenal Deffie! v0.40.1 I’m super excited to share with you the final update for day 3 of Jørgen’s route! This one’s been in the works for a long time, so I hope it will have been worth the wait. Featuring a new illustration by Deffie, a new track by me, and over 14K words, this update has a lot to enjoy! This update doesn't have the new content for Bjørn's route that was released in the preview build - it'll be available in the full Bjørn update (v0.41) once it's out. v0.40 I have a preview update of the new content for Bjørn's route I wanted to share with you. It stops roughly where Mikko and Devon's updates ended and is lighter in tone than the last few, which for me was a nice change of pace! I believe it gives the story a much needed room to breathe too. There's a few more scenes with Bjørn planned for the full 0.40 update, but with a scheduled trip for some photos I need I'm not 100% sure if I'll have them ready before the end of the month, so I decided I could share this with you now. v0.39.2 Firstly, there's new content for 2 out of 3 paths on Torulf's route: Dogtooth and Saliva, about 6k words of content between them. The last of the paths will have to wait for the next month, unfortunately, with all the work for this update I didn't have enough time for it. Secondly, the last update for Devon got a serious expansion. The memory he recalls is now much more fleshed out and features four illustrations by Deffie, and the last scene got some changes too, an opportunity to take an instant photo of the coach along them. If you're following the coach's route, I'd say it's definitely worth a re-read. Thirdly, lots of minor changes and fixes to the sprites, some changes to the new tracks, fixed fullscreen text mode for Android and a lot of other small but important changes. v0.38.4 Hi folks! I'm coming back to you with a new update for Devon's route. It continues the story from where we stopped the last Devon update - at a tough choice for Arvo that might influence the way he approaches the panther. There are 4 new illustrations by Deffie included in the update, along with a new instant photo with Devon and a lot of minor tweaks and fixes for the sprites as well. v0.37.1 Hi all! The time has come for the first update with Day 4. It's been a long journey up to this point and I'm so glad and thankful I could go on that journey with you. From here, I can already see the end, but it's still far on the horizon - two more days and then then some more content still ahead of us. As for the update - this time it's written by me, Keo, for Mikko's route. Branny is still working on Jørgen's update, so that will be released at a later date, once it's ready. The update is on the shorter side; a lot of time and effort on both Haku and my part went into the new sprites, and this update features what I hope is the final version of them, not counting some minor fixes and new assets. I tested the update itself, but I still need to go through the rest of the VN and fix some positionning issues - that will happen a bit later. So, here it is! Day 4, Mikko. Happy reading! v0.36.3 I’m thrilled to share with you the final update for day 3 of Lake’s route (and my first for the VN)! This is a version of the update featuring the new, reworked sprites in their current incarnation while Haku is working on some changes." v0.35.3 N/A v0.35 It's a smaller update at ~3.5k words, going all the way to the end of Day 3. For now it's missing an illustration for the closing scene, if you'd prefer to wait for it before playing. v0.34.1 Patch notes: ~11,000 new words for Torulf's route for all three paths, adding up to end of Day 3 content (filling in patch notes for other versions below since kemono update, not super relevant to this report but I didn't want to file another) v0.33.2 Patch notes: Extension of bad end for Mikko's Day 3 content New loading animation with Devon Some minor fixes for inconsistencies and typos v0.33.0 (note: v0.33.1 was presumably a minor hotfix release so this could be filed as that, but it's your call) Patch notes: ~10,000 new words for Devon's route, adding up to end of Day 3 content v0.33.2 N/A v0.33.1 N/A v0.32 ~16,000 more words of content, primarily for Mikko New illustration by Deffie New CG by Roborak Several new music tracks New sprite for Arvo Intro illustration reworked by PoisonPaint Minor fixes v0.30 Expansion for Bjørn and Rune routes New illustration for Bjørn Overhaul of save file names to more clearly organize day and route being played v0.29 NA v0.27.1 N/A v0.25 N/A v0.24 N/A v0.23.1 I'm coming back to you with an update for Torulf. As usual, it grew much bigger than I anticipated, and I'm happy to say that the finished thing is almost 16k words long . v0.17.2 - About 8k words of new content for Torulf (roughly a half of Day 2) - New sprite for Travis (the last one from the main cast!) - Various fixes and small rewrites for Torulf (Day 1 content) - Few new renders by Roborak - One new track by me - Minor fixes applied to Mikko sprite v0.15.2 - 13K words of new content (Bjørn's route, new Mikko scene, reworked intro) - Bjørn illustration by Bakemonoy - instant photo by hq - a handful of new renders by Roborak - a lot of small changes and fixes here and there v0.13.0 n.a v0.6.1 Today we're releasing the v0.6 update to Dawn Chorus, the first one after the route split, featuring a continuation of Rune's route. Unfortunately, as December was a busy month for the whole team, and our second writer didn't begin his work yet, the update is smaller than usual, at around 6k words of the new scenes. In addition to that, parts of the beginning of the game got rewritten to keep in line with the quality of writing from the later updates (I've really learnt a lot during the last six months). There are also two new CGs, this time one by Tintiai (found at the very beginning of the game), and one by hq (at the very end of the current build)! We haven't shown you the latter yet, but I just got it today and felt that it would work better if you saw it for the first time inside the scene. Oh, and the new sprite for Rune! Few, but not all of the older scenes, feature expressions for him now. v0.5.1 8.5k words of new scenes Some new renders by Roborak Few new tracks by me... honestly I've lost count A guest track by Lesli (Hop-Skip & the Chewtoys) - it's an honour for us! In game you can find it in the intro, before entering the guesthouse. You can listen to the track here . A new Mikko CG by Tintiai Redesigned Mikko sprite v0.4.0 - Spooktober special with Klaus - 11k words of new scenes - 8 (!) new tracks by Keo (these will be added to bandcamp later) - Torulf CG by Tintiai - Some of the backgrounds by Roborak were changed to new ones v0.3.4 N/A