Jasper explores further into the unknown, where the trees grow thick and the shadows long. His journey leads him to a cave echoing with voices—the hideout of the Whispering Masks.

• The Whispering Forest: A new area to explore, revealing more of Jasper's story.

  • Keep an eye out for Ada, the Traveling Merchant. She has arrived in the forest and may have exactly what you need to survive.

• Jasper's Analog Camera: Jasper finds his analog camera. View the world through a new lens and take stylized photos of your discoveries.

• The Grand Library of Myr: The doors to the ancient Library are finally open. Archive the lost lore of the forest and help restore the building to its former glory.

  • Dedicated archivists can unlock future chapters directly through gameplay in the Library, serving as a free alternative to purchasing the DLC.

• Community Feedback: Help us shape the future of the game. If you are using a Mouse & Keyboard, simply press "F" at any time to send us bug reports or suggestions.

Let us hear what you think! <3

• More story: We're adding the next piece of the main story. The first part of Chapter 1 includes a new level area to explore!

• A new gameplay feature: We're adding a major new system that lets you unlock content by digging into the lore and secrets of Myr. More on that soon!

• New character: You'll finally meet someone else in the woods. Get ready to run into Ada, the traveling merchant.

If you are not yet part of the beta-testing crew but would absolutely love to join:

Let me know and I'll get you access!

Hey everyone,

First of all: Your reviews have been incredibly wholesome and kind! We read every single one, and seeing how much you're enjoying the world we're building is what keeps us going. Thank you for every single review so far!

• The classic indie struggles: We know our player base is still small, and development isn't moving at lightning speed (in fact we hoped we could have posted this announcement months ago already).
  Jasper is a passion project, and since we're currently not earning money from the development of Jasper, we have to build things carefully and deliberately.

• Good news: We are still building, even when you don’t hear from us for a while! Development on Jasper IS continuing, and we're focused on making it something special. And the next big update is officially scheduled for this December.

• More story: We're adding the next piece of the main story. The first part of Chapter 1 includes a new level area to explore!

• A new gameplay feature: We're adding a major new system that lets you unlock content by digging into the lore and secrets of Myr. More on that soon!

• New character: You'll finally meet someone else in the woods. Get ready to run into Ada, the traveling merchant.

We're finally ready to start a proper beta tester program.

This means you can play new builds before they go public, help us squash bugs, and give feedback that will make it directly into the game. You'd be a huge part of the process.

If you want in, sign up here:

https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/sfiFqmJwnR

Your answers here will seriously help us figure out what to do next.

1. How long have you been following Jasper? Are you still there?

2. Should we do posts like this more often? Would you like us to do a more in-depth analysis of our goals, fails, successes, plans and experiences in developing Jasper so far?

3. For a small indie team, what do you feel is a reasonable wait time between big updates?

4. Where should we be trying to show the game to people? Where do you find new games?

P.S. We're going to be at the Videodays Festival in Cologne tomorrow!

If you're there, send us a message and come find us. Would be cool to meet some of you.

Once again, thank you for the beautiful reviews, they mean everything!

Don’t forget to register as beta tester here:

https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/sfiFqmJwnR

• Get access to the beta branch of Jasper, where updates are coming more often and way before they are made public to everyone else.
  
• Meet and discuss with us in a friendly and supportive environment. The Weasel Club is a community of artists, gamers and devs with an interest in cozy little adventures like Jasper.
  
• We are preparing ourselves for many cute ideas to bring to the Weasel Club, and you can shape its future with us! Take a look around and get inspired <3
  
• Join the Weasel Club on discord: https://discord.gg/27Ruhh284v

• We added a small animation to the area overlay and a whimsical sound. Also the overlay stays visible a little longer and is much better readable than before.

• Similarly we added animations to the subtitles and increased readability as well.

• Collecting postcards or pebbles now shows a popup, confirming that you really picked something up.

• Any collectables you collect are now represented with a small stamp in the Narrator’s book.

• We also added an overview of all the collectables within the current chapter, where you can check if you missed something.

• A confirmation popup will prevent you from accidentally skipping voice over by interacting with other items. You can interact again to skip to the new dialogue.

• The guided camera mode is now much more pleasant (for example at the start of the game during the walking tutorial). It should now feel more like a gentle guidance instead of forcing you to look into a certain direction.
  
• Various places where you could walk through bushes, get stuck or climb stuff that’s not supposed to be climbable.
  
• Correct button prompts at the latnern
  
• Moved trigger for star crashite further back so you don’t miss the action
  
• Tweaked some fonts
  
• Updated some texts in the main menu and added links to the Weasel Club discord server
  
• Our store page got a little upgrade, hopefully it’s a little easier to grasp what Jasper is about :) We still need better screenshots, but that’s for the next update…

• You can now replay any levels and chapters you have previously finished.
  
• All soul dust you earn while replaying the levels will be added on top of your already collected soul dust.
  
• Feel free to start hoarding soul dust for the next levels this way. If it's too broken I might change this in the future though.

• Narration on first page can now be skipped
  
• Skipping through book pages now skips through individual lines instead of the whole page. Continuing to skip during page turns still skips whole pages.

• Tweaked interaction cameras in attic
  
• Made attic a little brighter
  
• Increased duration of boy sequence right after the poem by the well, so it's less easy to miss

• Added controls tooltips as a basic tutorial and reminder during gameplay. Will add a setting to deactivate any tutorial overlays in the future.
  
• The button prompt during sequences now fades out after a while for more immersion.

• Post process bloom is now set correctly from the beginning
  
• Jasper is not freezing anymore while charging a lantern
  
• Tweaked audio levels: Music and sfx were too loud
  
• Fixed minor bug when entering pause menu while a sequence is playing in the background
  
• Fixed level change breaking when soft-restarting the game via the pause menu

• Increased visibility and added the link to the credits to various sub-menus. Credits will be integrated directly into the game in the future.