Hello Everyone!

I'm Excelior, the lead developer of Circular Fever!

March has been a crazy month for Circular Fever, with major progress in all fronts! I'm not gonna make you wait any longer, let's get into it!


Last month, I mentioned how previous songs from OST 1, specifically the ones featured in the Demo (except Retrograde) would be getting a little remix. As of yesterday, the first song to get remixed: Fever Power, was finished! What great timing! Check it out:
We're still working on Manic Madness, another song featured in the Demo, so stay tuned for that!

DEMO UPDATES

Speaking of the Demo, it's pretty outdated compared to the current beta of Fever, so we've decided to update the Demo! This is still a little while away, as we have more songs to remix, and levels to rechart, but it'll be updated within the next few months!


Well, here it is, the part you've all been waiting for. What progress has been made on the actual game this month? Well, quite a lot! Let's just get into it:


The major reworks I mentioned last month have been completed! This is a major step in the games development and brings us one BIG step closer to releasing. I can't exactly show off what changed, since it isn't exactly noticeable in gameplay, but is a major change when making levels, and overall, helps make sure the level stays on time with the song.
While it's great having these mechanics, what does this actually matter if we don't use them?


In April, We'll begin working on a level editor! At first, this will be private for the charters of Circular Fever, but eventually, it'll be public for everyone to use! It'll be available through Steam later this year.


Now for a couple sneak peeks that don't need their own category!
(all footage shown here is taken from an early build in development, everything is subject to change!)

We've been working on new animations for each judgement! This includes the combo number above the sprite and how many milliseconds late/early you were when hitting the note!
Bored of the set scroll speed of each level? Well now you can customise the scroll speed of each level! Take a little look at this example:
The menu has also recieved a redesign! (this is still a pretty early design, but its a good proof of concept!)

AND THAT'S A WRAP!

Thanks for reading! We've made a lot of progress this month! Granted, slow progress, but it's going well so far.

From the Circular Fever Development Team, we hope you have / had a great easter this year!
We'll see you next month!

I'm Excelior, the lead developer of Circular Fever!

It's been a little while since our last post, and that's for good reason! We've been working hard on Circular Fever throughout this month, and although work has been slow but steady, we ARE making progress, and I am ready to show you guys a little sneak peek at what we've been up to.

This is the start of monthly devlogs that will basically be a quick summary of what we did this month, and will be posted on the first of every month for the prior month (eg: March 1st = February Devlog)

So let's get started!


We've been working on refreshing the OST, as mentioned in our last post, and we have made some progress!
First of all, we've decided on a song count! OST 1 will be available at launch, and will contain 8 songs!
You might have seen a little sneak peek of OST 1's selection in the Demo.

Most of these are completely new tracks, however, you may remember that in our last update, I mentioned that the current songs have been pretty hit or miss. I honestly agree.
Those songs were made by me, and I'm not the best at making songs, but we now have a proper composer, who is actually skilled at music!

We haven't finalised this yet, but we're either gonna start working to remix some of the songs to sound way better, or we're gonna scrap them.
once again, this has not been finalised yet.

Anyway, enough of the explaining what's been going on with the music, I know what you want. You want a preview of one of our songs!
Well I'll do you one better, how about a full song AND a preview of another song!

The full song is Birds and Bees! This will be used in the sho- somewhere in the main menu!
yeah.. that's not finished yet, you're gonna have to wait a while before you see that.
Now for a treat! I've personally been thinking about difficulty, not everyone wants easy levels. So I got our composer working on a song that will be used for a REALLY really hard level. Here is a preview of this song!
trust me, you aren't ready for what I have planned.
Phew! We're finally done with the music section, I personally believe this section is really important, it's literally the foundation of the entire game!


I also found some time for a little refresh on the game's logo, I haven't finished this just yet, still got some more artwork to make, but who doesn't mind a little sneak preview of the new logo?
Take a look!
Alright, we've delayed enough. What have we done to the actual GAME this month?
Well I'm gonna be honest, not a whole lot is actually finished and ready to show just yet.
We spent a lot of this month outlining what we need to do before launch, which is an important step in game development.

However, I can tell you what we are working on right now, and hopefully show you these next month!

As said before, a lot of the core gameplay of Circular Fever is a little outdated, and needs to be reworked. Let me tell you, THIS TAKES A LONG TIME so I'm still working on this one. But it's looking promising so far!
This is currently my top priority, once this is finished, we can work more on other features.

We've refreshed the note sprites for the game! These are actually finished, so I can give you a quick look!
Maybe you don't like the new sprites, maybe you just want a change!
We're also working on customising things like: noteskins, hitsounds, hit effects and even more!
More news on this shortly

That's all we got for this month! Sorry there weren't many new things to share, but I hope this was enough to keep you guys content for now.
We're working on this slowly but surely!

Thanks for reading the whole way through! If you haven't already, join the discord!
https://discord.gg/6qDedtKZx7

We'll be providing sneak peeks into development over there!

Also follow us on twitter!
https://twitter.com/Circular_Fever

We post news there, and let you all know about announcements as soon as they happen!

We'll see you next month for another developer update!