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Devlog
09 JUN 2026
Litagiar prototype: the suitors remember everything
First full loop of Date or Alive is playable: dinner at eight, hunted by midnight. The dialogue system now writes every choice into the suitor's memor…
prototype02 JUN 2026
Host-hopping finally feels like cheating (good)
The egregore's whole identity is that it has no body of its own, so the run had to feel like borrowing, not switching characters. The breakthrough was…
design18 MAY 2026
How the Mangrove Run key art got its purple
We tried four palettes for the mangrove before admitting the obvious: a swamp at dusk is purple or it is nothing. Green read as "generic forest level"…
art30 APR 2026
Why "Rujum"
A rujum is a cairn — a small stack of stones left by whoever walked the path before you, telling you two things at once: someone made it this far and …
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