The writing, imaging, animating, and post-production for the next update (0.5) of Endara Chronicles: The Apothecary is completed.

While the changelog isn't ready just yet, there's 30 story and thread scenes written for this update as well as about a half-dozen sandbox scenes added for various characters. The 0.5 version isn't as big as the 0.4 by a long shot, but it's still good sized. There's about 1500 images and 54 animations as of right now. A few more might be added during the assembly and testing.

There's not going to be a lot of GUI changes this update. There is going to be an inventory GUI update at some point... just not sure if it will go into 0.5 or not.

Expected alpha version for patrons and supporters will be out somewhere in early February. Very tentative target date is February 4. Public release likely will arrive near the last week of February, depending on several factors.