Hello friends. This is a quick check-in to let you know I am still working on Episode Five. Progress on this episode is not happening very fast, unfortunately, but I am slowly getting it done.

When I published the first demo of the game (roughly the first half of Episode One) back in July 2022, I had already planned out all eight episodes of the story and I had the first four episodes mostly written as well as a light draft of Episode Five. As I worked on each episode I made substantial rewrites as my writing skill improved and I made tweaks to the story. But unlike the previous episodes, I've scrapped my original draft for Episode Five and started over completely from scratch. I haven't changed the major plotpoints, but how I was getting to those plotpoints wasn't really working and I've had to do big restructuring of the episode.

Anyway, my report is that writing is slowing me down more than usual this episode, but I am getting the job done. Just a reminder that I have a separate full-time job and I work on Leaving DNA in my spare time, so I appreciate your patience.

(PS-this is a special render of MC's ex-girlfriend Vega, not an in-game preview image.)