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This week

Hi. We've been working very hard on game development but these last few days have been a little stall (roughhly ~1/2 hour of game development per day) in terms of development due to other projects that need to be delivered as well...
Anyway, the playtesting plan is currently being done to deliver this wednesday, and the game development will continue strong again soon!

Next dev steps:
- Timed Waves (with "start animation")
- Monsters sight, monster awareness and monster attack

Stay tuned!
~evoll~

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