hello, everyone! thank you so much for playing briarheart!

bugs

i've patched the game (twice now, ha) to fix some bugs and small errors i forgot to fix and/or didn't see. these bugs/errors included:

- all variations of the scene right after choosing your power/heritage showing up to make for a very confusing paragraph

- [city] being used as placeholder for the name of the city closest to ashentree. i know, i know lol the city is called high tower now!

- run branch not being blocked off. your only choice for now is to not run, unfortunately.

so what now?

well, now i'm back to writing the rest of chapter 1! you might have noticed that i'm a slow writer but i will try to keep updates coming, even if they don't happen every month. 

chapter 1 has two main branches, though one of them is only available in its entirety if you told vi who you are. it's the "running away" branch, which, as i told above, is currently blocked off. this branch is very linear and very short compared to the "not running away" branch, which is where most of chapter 1 is, so i will probably write it later. my main focus right now is the "not running away" part of chapter 1.

...which will be fairly long, i think. kaisa shows up, there are royal guards involved, things can get dicey depending on your choices, etc. the ending will be the same regardless (you are returning to the palace, no running away from that), but said choices will impact your relationships with a few characters + your character's personality. 

i'm pretty excited to write it all, but i'm not sure when i will be done. i work two jobs, so briarheart is only worked on in my spare time when i have a bit of energy left. to keep the updates coming i will probably update the game in chunks - part of the main branch one day, then more of it in the next update, etc, until we are finally done with chapter 1. i have no release date for the next update yet, but i will let you guys now when i'm 100% sure of it.

well, that's it. thanks again for the support!!