Entropic Float 2: Land Of The Witch

Not Your Cherry Sundae Stretch Goal Song Released + November Dev Updates!
6 months ago – Sun, Nov 30, 2025 at 05:39:12 PM

“Not Your Cherry Sundae” by Renfield Future has finally released! This was shared on social platforms earlier in the month, and now it's here too! The ability to create this song by the in-universe band was made possible with a stretch goal, which covered the costs of composition and recording- But it took a bit longer for me to be able to order the cover image commission. It’s well worth the wait. Rex Rosario’s vocals and Soyokaze’s art make for a wonderful music video!

Moving onto development updates- It's now, with the end of November, been two years since this Kickstarter succeeded and covered the Memory CGs and Voicework of the game. I'll admit that I hoped to be further in development by now, but balancing life with a project of this scale, as the person wearing most of the hats, has proven to be more of a challenge than anticipated. Still, I'm so grateful to have had that boost early on in the process, and will continue doing my best! So, how about those November goals?

For the first half of the month:

• Complete at least 3 more backgrounds: Done! 
• Write at least 6 more standard conversations: Well, I was able to write two of them- Not a big enough advancement to share a progress bar this time.
• Create the assets for one Character Zone: Done! Everything’s created for Jane’s zone (and the puzzles are function-checked), the other step is to digitize those assets and implement the minigame. One down!

And the second:

• Complete the other three backgrounds remaining in the WIP folder:  Done!
• Write another 5 standard conversations:  Didn't end up happening-
• Finish drawing every ref that Shoii needs for the remaining memory CGs: Yes! 

So, pretty solid on the art front, a bit behind on writing- Switching between the two is just not the most productive thing to do, especially since I had to take some time this month working on art for other purposes. Once my focus really shifts to writing, things should come along pretty quickly.

December, too, I'll have to split my attention when it comes to creative endeavors (I have to make gifts!) but I have set some goals for the month anyhow!

• Draw the remaining backgrounds necessary for area 4 (1 through 3 are now complete excluding one easter egg for area 1 that doesn't need to be included in the early beta)
•  Draw characters for the Area 4 backgrounds
• Draw and implement Objekts for Area 4
• Make the assets for another character zone

We're getting closer and closer to the earliest possible beta test- Remember to let me know if you want to be included in that! That's all for now, as always, thank you so much for reading! See you again towards the end of the year~

Happy Halloween! An October Update~
7 months ago – Fri, Oct 31, 2025 at 10:10:43 AM

This is the first update here on Kickstarter since I’ve come back from the update hiatus- Happy Halloween!

I delayed the update so that I could be truly on theme when sharing this lovely piece of art from the ever-amazing Soyokaze! Twelve members of the EF2 Cast are waiting in the candy bucket- Pick out your favorite Halloween costume of the bunch!!
 

Over hiatus, I was able to make some progress, though not a ton- As expected, the summer was too busy to be able to reliably work on the game beyond small bursts, so updates during that time would have just been disappointing! Check out the updates on other platforms for more details on that- Just know that I did the best I could under the circumstances.

Then, as for September- That month was spent participating in the Spooktober VN Jam! Check out The Haunting Of Kurumi Mori for some Halloween fun and another (standalone) story set in the Entropic Float world~

So, the goals for October-

• Complete at least 5 more backgrounds - Done! I’ll share one of these below~
• Get the conversation progress number up to 40/590 - We’re at 39/590 which I think is close enough to call it a success.
• Finish up the three Objekts I currently have in the WIP files folder - Done!

The next update on other platforms will be on Sunday 11/16, just a smidge over two weeks from the update today, with the next one here on KS planned for 11/30. So, let’s go over the goals for this period!

• Complete at least 3 more backgrounds
• Write at least 6 more standard conversations- This being conversations only between Ame and the character, not involving another ally, so they only increment the counter by 1~
• Create the assets for one Character Zone

This list might seem a bit more specific than usual- That’s because the game is actually getting a lot closer than you might think to being ready for an early round of beta players! Only the first four areas, out of the planned eight total, would be accessible, and I’m working towards making those four areas functional for early testing. Kickstarter backers are welcome to reach out if interested in playing an early build! This test would mostly be looking for things that are not working right rather than full-blown playtesting- That will come later! But if you’re interested in a taste of what’s to come, while looking for things I might’ve screwed up, let me know- The playtest will hopefully become available in January!

While I’m at it, here are the goals for the rest of November, which I will as usual start if things go particularly well in the earlier portion of the month.

• Complete the other three backgrounds remaining in the WIP folder
• Write another 5 standard conversations
• Finish drawing every ref that Shoii needs for the remaining memory CGs

And that’s all for now! Thank you, as always, for reading- See you again near the end of November!

May Update: Progress Made and Hiatus Announcement
about 1 year ago – Sat, May 31, 2025 at 06:52:32 AM

Hello everybody! As per usual, what follows is the combination of both May updates made on other platforms. Let's jump right in with the list of goals we set back in April:

• Sketch all 7 primary backgrounds left for Area 4: Done! They’re alllll sketched. Yay!
• Add planned objekts into Area 3: Done!
• Write Objekt Reactions for Munya and Sharma in Area 4: Done!
• Finish at least 3 of those Area 4 Backgrounds: This one didn’t happen, the second half of the month was pretty exhausting and I ended up with a few commissions I had to focus on.
• Sketch some subprimary backgrounds for the areas already done: This one, however, did happen! I sketched all those subprimary backgrounds and even one of the backgrounds for Area 5. The wonders of the sketches being possible anywhere I bring my laptop…
• Maybe actually get those progress bars sorted out?: Done! And, here, let’s take a look at those right away!

Character Conversations: 10/590. These are the conversations between Ame, his allies, and other characters as experienced when choosing the dialogue option ‘Let’s Talk’. 590 may seem like a big number, but the ally conversations are counted twice- A convo between Ame, Bea, and Greta is listed once in Bea’s list and once in Greta’s list, it was just easier for tracking purposes to count them in both places than to weed out the duplicates.

Zones: 0/44. I haven’t made any strides in this regard yet. There are twenty-two zones total, each with separate tasks for the visual assets and the minigame implementation.

Backgrounds: 25/67. These are all the planned backgrounds for areas one through seven! What’s left includes most of Area 4, all of Areas 5 to 7, and a few secondary backgrounds for Area 1 and Area 2. Area 8 is excluded from the count, and will probably have its own progress bar down the line- While the majority of Pine Creek has some grounding in its map layout, Area 8’s necessary backgrounds will reveal themselves in the writing process.

Death Methods: 2/26. Have I even mentioned this mechanic before? There are thirteen ways Ame can die in the course of the game, and each one has an entry for its visual assets and for its code- The visual assets mainly being ‘achievement badges’ for a collection screen, though some will also include a CG! The two completed entries are for the code implementation of the two deaths in the demo: The bus crash, and provoking Veno.

Memory Segments:  14/20. I wrote a majority of these back in November! There’s a few left, some of which are already partially written. The rest of them aren’t a very high priority just yet, since we haven’t made it to the unlock conditions for most of them anyhow.

And to be perfectly clear- These bars only reflect specific factors with numbers I know so far- More bars will eventually be added, and I won’t include these progress bars during updates in which they have not changed. They don’t fully represent what’s been worked on up to now OR what will be included in the full game- For instance, not a single one of those ‘character conversations’ were included in the demo, conversation branches are a different and less-countable category. But they should give an idea of some part of progress and what’s being worked on at a given time moving forward!

And, when it comes to those progress bars- That’s what I’ll be focusing on very soon! The initial instances of running into each character are established for all but Area 4, and even those are coded in without assets yet. So, I’m in a very good position to shift focus to writing rather than asset creation for a while. And that’s exactly what I will be doing during…

~An Update Hiatus~

I know, I just switched from once-monthly to twice-monthly updates. And when I come back in either September or October (Depending on whether I decide to participate in the Spooktober Gamejam), that will resume. But truth be told, there’s a LOT happening this summer, including but not at all limited to tabling and paneling at conventions, moving to a different apartment, helping somebody ELSE move to a different apartment, and artfight of course. My attention… Is demanded in a lot of other places.

So, while I’ll 100% still be making progress on EF2 during this time, I’ve made the difficult decision for my sanity to let myself off the hooks involved in setting specific targets for specific timeframes. I’ll need to have the freedom to go two weeks without even looking in the direction of EF2 if I’m going to balance everything in the upcoming months. Official updates will be paused, though I’ll still be posting in the discord!

I’ll be back with plenty of good news when I do return from this break from structure, I can promise you that.

I’ll leave you with this Artfight attack of Sharma by SeaOrgRadio. Thank you, as always, for reading- And I’ll see you again by October!

April Update: Area 3 and Some Housekeeping!
about 1 year ago – Sat, Apr 26, 2025 at 05:34:57 AM

Hello everybody! As per usual, I made two updates on other platforms but, to spare your inbox, have condensed them into just this one for the Kickstarter page. So let's see what I've gotten done this month!

Let’s jump right into it with the last update’s goals:

• Sketch remaining 4 backgrounds for Area 3 : Done!
• Complete at least 2 of those Area 3 Backgrounds : Done!
• Create a map for Tony’s Rides : Map is made (Pictured below- Worry not, the blurry edges are covered by the GUI) and Tony’s Rides are fully functional!
• Implement all Objekt Reactions for Bea and Syoko in Area 2 : Done!

And the stretch goals for further in April, AKA the first update’s goal list:

• Complete Area 3 Backgrounds : Done!
• Make travel throughout Area 3 Possible : Done!
• Add characters into Area 3, if there’s still time: Also done!

That’s right, in a remarkable turn from the disappointments of March, I already completed all of the goals I had laid out for the month of April by the time of its first update~

So, I took the opportunity to work on tying up some loose ends for the rest of the month-

• Finally generate progress bars to use in future updates: Didn’t happen! I knew I’d be away from home for a chunk of this update, and thought this line item would work well for that. Turns out I needed a lot more info from my main machine and paper notes than I realized. Instead, I used that time to draw some refs for the remaining CGss Shoii is working on.
• Check in with any Kickstarter backer commissions left in the pipe: Done! Still working on figuring out the cameo backer tier with those individuals, but for all remaining commissions I either completed them or reached out for more information.
• Draw a cute EF doodle for Easter: Done! This was posted to socials, but I’ll also include it in this update after this list!
• Make a fun little character themes video for the cast of the Beloved Ghost DLC: Also done and posted to socials! This one will go at the end of the update.
• Add Objekt Reactions for Renfield, Maude, and Prim in Area 3: Done! In fact, I also jumped ahead and put in the reactions for Greta in Area 4 too.

To elaborate a bit more on the progress bars- I’ve determined which numeral metrics to count for each category, to be able to share X out of Y progress, but it turns out I need to dive back into what I’ve coded so far along with my paper notes to actually count up those metrics. Just a data entry task that will at some point get done!

May’s updates will come on the 17th and the 31st - This has an extra weekend between now and the next update again, but since I’ll be attending Anime Boston on the 24th, I’d rather update on the 3rd and 5th Saturdays than the 2nd and 4th. So, what are the goals I’ll be tackling for this upcoming month?

For the next 3 week period:

• Sketch all 7 primary backgrounds left for Area 4
• Add planned objekts into Area 3
• Write Objekt Reactions for Munya and Sharma in Area 4
• Maybe actually get those progress bars sorted out?

And for what’s left of May: (Considering that I have work and Anime Boston going on between the two updates)

• Finish at least 3 of those Area 4 Backgrounds
• Sketch some subprimary backgrounds for the areas already done (There are still locations locked behind puzzles as far back as Area 1 that need drawing!)

Taking it a little easy in the latter portion of the month, but big plans for the start! And who knows, maybe the same thing will happen as this month, and I’ll have all the stretch goals done by the first update? Anything can happen! Thank you, as always, for reading. See you soon!

March Update: Sorting out Area 2!
about 1 year ago – Sat, Mar 22, 2025 at 05:34:08 AM

Hello everybody! If you’re on Kickstarter, this is the March update- Everywhere else, it’s the second March update! And as for what’s in the update? Well…
 

Not a whole lot, sorry. I have not been having a normal time in this two week period. Not a bad time! But not a normal one! Today as I share this update, it’s… My first day off since the last update. I had 5 days of work across my day jobs, a table at CTGamercon, then another 5. I should have had yesterday to work on EF2, but work the day before ended up being a total of thirteen hours with one shift left incomplete- I had to go to work, then back out to run another unexpected errand, all in all just a busy time with no real opportunity to buckle down and get stuff done.
 

For that reason, I don’t have new official art to share, so let’s hear it for this piece of Maude from Vanitasium on ArtFight!
 

Even still, I was able to get a few things done in these four weeks. March has not been quite as excellent progress-wise as February ended up being, but every step gets us closer to release!
 

Here’s the goals from March:

• Create the assets for and implement a Zone (Character-Thematic Minigame) for Area 1, so a piece of Evidence can be acquired with which to open Area 2 : Not completed, postponed. Realized I could use the developer console to skip this for now, and wait to implement all Zones to the fullest of my vision for them.
• Make travel throughout Area 2 Possible : Done! You can traverse all of it!
• Add characters into Area 2 : Also done! They don’t have much to say yet, but Bea and Syoko have both been placed into the environments for their first appearances.
• Add Objekts into Area 2 : Did this! As per usual, there are a lot of Objekts that will probably end up being added later down the line, but everything that was definitely going into Area 2 is now implemented- Including the first objekt that goes through multiple iterations while taking up the same inventory slot! That might not sound like much, but I’m relieved it worked!
• Sketch backgrounds needed for Area 3 : Sketched 2 out of 6! That leaves 4 to sketch in April. Technically, I started a third, but a ‘completed sketch’ for me is one that’s ready to begin lineart, and that one’s not there yet.
• Create a map for the ‘Tony’s Rides’ function : Still haven’t gotten anywhere with this- I’ll carry the goal into April!
   

So, the goals before the next update on April 12th:

• Sketch remaining 4 backgrounds for Area 3
• Complete at least 2 of those Area 3 Backgrounds
• Create a map for Tony’s Rides
• Implement all Objekt Reactions for Bea and Syoko in Area 2

And some stretch goals for further in April:

• Complete Area 3 Backgrounds
• Make travel throughout Area 3 Possible
• Add characters into Area 3, if there’s still time.

Laying out the upcoming goals, even struggling a bit through March, it’s clear that development is coming along! The year ahead is still full of uncertainty, but by taking so much time to build a framework, the actual implementation process is pretty swift- Not so swift that I’m confident deciding on a release date just yet, though. Even so, things are moving along. I’ll update again soon, and thank you for reading!