《When Twilight Strikes》2026年9月月度更新

OVERVIEW

Hello!! It's been a long time since I've done one of these, but I thought it'd be nice to explain what I've been doing since my previous announcement and what my next steps are for the rest of the month/year.

To start things off, I started writing again! Woohoo! In my last update, I mentioned that I was planning to release a new short story collection, but I didn't exactly explain what it would be about. Now that I'm a few thousand words in, I feel confident enough to talk about it a little more. The short revolves around the concept of 'before, then and now.' There will be one story for each time period (per RO), with interludes in-between.

The 'before' story covers the RO's initial thoughts of the Hunter, including possibilities like first impressions or (if applicable) their relationship prior to the start of the game. The 'then' story is something that happens a little later into your relationship. For some ROs, this will still be before the events of When Twilight Strikes (A, Blane and potentially N), while for others, it will be a scene from the current in-game timeline. Finally, the 'now' story will be the RO's perspective right after the end of Chapter 13. For everyone except K-romancers (sorry), this will be directly after that long-awaited kiss scene (if you chose it). The entire collection will be written from the ROs' perspectives and will hopefully give you insight into what they're thinking!

I am currently halfway through writing A's route and have mostly finished Blane's, but both need serious editing. I actually wrote Blane's while I was on my internship, but I didn't have a good understanding of what type of story I wanted to tell yet, so I'll need to consolidate and figure out what can be salvaged from what I wrote. My goal for October is to finish A and move onto at least 1 other RO. I told myself that this will release by the end of the year, and I am determined to make that happen.

In other news, I'm slowly working through edits to Chapter 1, but despite what I said in my announcement, it's not my main priority right now. Taking additional time to myself to gather my thoughts and comb through old content made me realize that although there's still a lot I want to rewrite, I'm still happy with the core of the story. While there are a lot of elements I haven't utilized as well as I could, there's nothing stopping me from editing it down the line. That was my biggest worry when I made my last update: that because this is a publicly updating game, I don't have the control to change things. It's a relief to know this isn't the case.

Either way, it's still been really fun (and cringe, in some ways) to look back on old writing. While I still have a lot to learn as an author, I'm glad that I can tell I've made some improvement over the years. I'm looking forward to going through the rest of the chapters and editing too, even if it's a bit tedious. No pain, no gain, am I right?

Alright, that's enough rambling from me! I know this was a bit of a longer update, but I hoped this was insightful. As always, thank you for all your support. Take care! <3

PROGRESS LOG

• Chapter 1 Edits: 40% finished
• (New) Short Story: 4421 words