Skin Deep is coming out in seven days
I'm losing my mind lmao I wish it were out today!!!!!!
You can still add it to your Steam wishlist here.
I will drop an interesting fact about Skin Deep's story: while we had to cut some minor interactive story beats (minigame flourishes) from the tale for development reasons, the overall plot of Skin Deep did not change at all during development and has remained in my opinion precisely the same, in every way that matters, from the very first outline I completed in 2021 all the way until release.
This is the very very game I have ever worked on where we drafted and validated a story outline at the start of development... and then hit our dev goals well enough to avoid having to change it substantially in any way. Every single other game I have ever worked on has gone through enough cuts and changes that a story rewrite was required in the final third of game dev.
In comparison, the biggest plot beat we cut from Skin Deep was a visual gag where you were going to sample your own DNA and send it to some cats in the mail for plot reasons? We replaced that one with an analogous gag that required less animation. I just reread the old plot outline a couple minutes ago, and it's shocking how little we changed.
Anyway: it was a delight working with designers who were so good at hitting their goals that we were all able to plan a story confidently together and get the entire, like, intended themes and arc in there without major compromises. I am excited for you to see it!!!