Road to Alpha 1! (Blog #8)

hey everyone, I got a couple things to share today :p

first off is the 9 persona renders images I attached. even though they are kind of sloppy colored sketches, I think they look decently decent... the question I wanna ask you guys is if you think they should be fully lined and rendered for the Alpha. there's a part of me that wants to do it, since every other render in the game is very high fidelity... but it would take some time. I'll let you guys decide, do you think I should finish these for the update?

second off, kind of related to the images, but I have a release date for Alpha 1...

July 24th!

Now if you read my blog from last week you'd remember that this was my latest possible date, and it's true that it's later than I'd like. But it occurred to me these past few days especially... the game should be kind of coherent. What I was gonna do is just have the game open up to all the options and new stuff, and players have to navigate it and piece together the story, but because I have the first 3 stories done I think it would be important for comprehension of the story and vision of the game if I piece it all together. The plan now is to have a "Story mode" and a "Freeplay mode"- with the Story mode having a linear track through the character stories, as well as additional plot related social events. Freeplay mode will have Chihaya's story, Hangouts, and Bathyal as a teammate- as well as everything else from Story mode easily accessible, but not necessarily in order.

Since I've decided this is how I want to things, I've had to reassess my plans for how systems would present themselves in Story mode. One of the biggest hurdles I came across was that the Persona system and Scarlet Room would make almost no sense and not have a place, which is bad. Hence why I made all these Persona Renders... I'm going for a light implementation of the actual progression for them in this Alpha.

On top of these new considerations, there's still just more work to do. Still haven't send out voicelines to the VAs, still haven't done sound design, there's still a great deal of work I gotta do. July 24th is my hope now and I think if I keep at it I will do it, but next week is going to definitely suck not being able to work on it and just worry about it. Oh well..

Anyways guys thats about it I feel like im not being super articulate this time around but idk im kinda in a mood lol ill keep working hard and doing my best and making this game as good as possible- Metrack

PS: pls let me know about the persona renders xoxo