Newsletter written by KrisTheChair

Introduction

Hello everyone, I'd like to welcome you to the August 2025 UTWS newsletter. I know It's not August at the time of me releasing this, but I'd like to share what we've been working on.

Development On Section 1

We've accomplished a lot over the Summer, mainly in early July and August. Firstly, I'd like to talk about o2's introduction. In early July, I posted a video on the updated version of o2's introductory cut scene. If you haven't seen it, check it out!

Now I'd like to talk about the progress on the first section. Are goal is to complete half of the demo(section 1) by the end of the year. So far we are close to completing the first section of the demo. If you don't know, the first section of the game will consist of three sub areas of the Ruins. We've fleshed out the story for the section more, with new characters and cut scenes. So far I'd say we are around 15-25% done with the first section. Are main goal is to make the rooms, sprites, and cut scenes first, then work on the battles and less important stuff once those are completed. 

One of the main things we worked on is Redibis'  introductory cut scene. Redibis is the 1st member of the Writers that Atlas will encounter, and one of the main antagonists. We've made a couple of songs for them too. 

We've also been working on coming up with new npcs, rooms, and mechanics. Most of them haven't been implemented yet. We don't have many people doing the programing, so it takes awhile to get things done.

Conclusion

To rap things up, I'd like to inform y'all that due to school and other activities, progress on UTWS will be slower than the Summer, but we'll still work on it as much as we can. Hopefully I'll post another newsletter at the end of September. Also, UTWS turned three years old in May!