#dev log

Hello all,

The day has finally come. After three years of very intense work, Wayfarer Episode III is finally complete! This early access version is launched and ready to play on my Patreon.

With this release, Wayfarer’s early access build is now over 1.8 million words. There are thousands of branching choices, all of which can shift the narrative. It is highly recommended that you explore as much as possible to learn what you can about the characters and the setting, and see how your successes and failures change those relationships. 

But most importantly—failure is not the end.

✦ Overview

850,000 words of new explorable story, harrowing choices, and gut-wrenching consequences

The conclusion to Act I—your Wayfarer will never be the same again

A new Prologue, featuring all-new scenes with Rindan Cenric, Brissa Varyn, and Amali Sero

Updates to worldbuilding and lore, including adjustments to maps, letters, and codex entries

A brand-new skill point system including skill allocation

General bug fixes for Episodes I & II, along with fixes to the previous Episode III content 

✦ Story Features

Pick up where the story left off in Episode II and dive into the mysteries and secrets of Diradan Tower

Entangle with two powerful factions vying for control

Continue building—or destroying—your relationship with Aeran

Engage in the most intense negotiation of your life

Learn (or fail to learn) devastating information about the Wayfarer Order

✦ About the Early Access Build

Episodes Released: Prologue, Episode I, Episode II, Episode III

Average Word Count Per Playthrough: 215,000 words (approximate)

Average Playtime: 15-20 hours

Total Cumulative Word Count: 1.8 million words (approximate)              

If you have played the Episode III early access before, please note that your Episode III save files will not work correctly. They will load, but they will contain continuity errors and other bugs. For a seamless playthrough, please start the game over or from the save point at the end of Episode 2. Additionally, if your playthrough was started before 2024 you must restart the game, or you will encounter errors.

A huge thank you to Wayfarer’s playtesting team for their hard work getting the episode in shape, and of course to all my patrons, supporters, and followers. I would not have made it this far without you!

✦ What's Next for the Public Build?

January will see the release of Public Build Patch 3, which adds: 

The new Prologue and skill allocation system

Worldbuilding and lore updates

General bug fixes for Episodes I & II

Episode III’s public release is TBD. It will remain a Patreon exclusive until Episode IV is complete.

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Idrelle Games is the studio name for AM Morrigan (she/they), a solo developer and playwright based in Canada. After falling in love with video game storytelling, her goal became to create rich, interactive stories where choices do matter—and to make the kind of game she would love to play.

Wayfarer artwork is by @sunshinemage.

Wayfarer sigil is by Jessica Roy. 

All other image assets are as credited in-game.

💥VERSTAVE VISUAL NOVEL UPDATE💥

Update 17. Waving from the Monolith

You thought we perished? But we are alive, working and we have some news.

So, what exactly happened?

A bit of a sad update — we won't be able to release on Sunday, and this is rather upsetting for us since we already moved the release date for extra day.

However, the reality is that life hits us and technical delays happen. The choice was between releasing half-baked game and what it meant to be from the beginning, which is not broken and with mini-games. We opted for the latter and decided to give our technical team another week

Please, accept this teaser with the release date in the end of the video and wait for more updates soon!

Also, expect these sort of silly updates every Tuesday — we want you all to get excited about the game! We're going to be posting a lot more here, very soon!

Feb 2026 Dev Log

Hi everyone!

February feels like such a short month, but lots of it was in preparation for March, which is absolutely jam-packed with activity! Hope this month has been kind to all of you. Happy lunar new year and Ramadan Mubarak to anyone who celebrates!

As of March, I also started my sabbatical year, so here's to hoping I get lots more time to write and make games and be outdoors :)

CT:OS

Chapter 7 update was publicly released on 14 Feb, which brings the entire National Doubles Championship arc to a close. 🎾 

Valentine's Day bonus snippet 💕

Merry Crisis

Finished the Merry Crisis Visual Novel extended demo (well, music's not done and there's a bit more play-testing and polishing left to do)

The extended demo will be released on Mar 6th!

Behold, trains!

That's a visualisation of my first week of coding efforts to make virtual trains run on schedule between some placeholder place names. If the project gets past its baby stage, this code will need to support a whole big network of public transit, so it's been a huge learning effort for me to program something sturdy enough to support that.

Week 2, enough with the abstract data structures, here's some awful little trains you can embark to travel between all these awful little stations:

After many, many hours of troubleshooting invisible trains, trains that eject you off screen, trains that contain another smaller train, and trains that flicker in and out of existence quantum-style, I'm beyond chuffed that this ended up functional somehow.

Entering week 3, I'm sick of looking at the awful trains & awful stations, so it's finally time to explore a potential art style (ft. one of the prettiest tube stations, in my humble opinion):

Ignoring the fact that I haphazardly tiled a bunch of non-tiling sketches and slapped a default font on top, I'm actually pretty jazzed about further developing this sort of rough lineart style. I was inspired by some sketches I made in FFXIV and the ink pen drawings in my travel sketchbooks overall. Thematically the travelogue connection is kinda adorably appropriate, but mainly it checks my three big requirements:

Enough personality to make locations feel organic & alive despite the amount of straight lines and boxy shapes that inevitably arises from drawing modern transit stations in flat 2D. I cannot draw a clean straight line and I want to revel in that.

Able to convey a ton of atmosphere. I like a game with a distinct vibe, plus I want to portray a variety of moods between the locations.

Fast drawing speed. One of the major issues that makes this game project one of my stupider ideas is the sheer number of unique stations and transit types I want the player to be able to visit. The less intricate rendering each asset requires to look passable, the better.

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Starting to change the code in the first few passages for Arthur (FArthur). It will be a bit of a long process but it will be rewarding

Have changed some scenes with Mordred (first meeting, and Morien's answer on him)

Slightly edited the first meeting with Morien

Edited some bugs of the last demo release

Started to slightly edit Arthur's pov scenes. I want to show them as someone who, while seemingly always understanding and calm, is quite anxious and burdened but puts on a very well made persona when in public.

Wrote the very first scene of Chapter 3

What I need to do in the future:

Keep adding the code for Arthur

Add some variations for transfem Arthur and how you expect her (some people refer to her as a man, other as a woman, so MC is understandably confused)

Edit the ch.2 scenes with Mordred

Keep editing Arthur's scenes.

Make some edits to correct the typos + critiques made to ch2 part 2.