Progress Update: Playtestin' + Polishin' + Music
Added 2019-06-28 15:02:50 +0000 UTCGood news: We're in the final lap!
Not-as-good news: The final lap is pretty long.
But still: Not bad!
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Rough estimate: Adventures with Anxiety is ~60% done, and on-track to release mid-August!
Since my last update 3 weeks ago, I took all the rough art & dialogue and stitched them together. For the first time, someone can play through the full story, opening screens to credits roll. In the meantime, I commissioned Monplaisir – the same musician who made the public-domain track I used in The Evolution of Trust! – to make original music for AwA.
Like this one:
🎵Adventures with Anxiety Credits Theme (mp3) 🎵
And two days ago, we started the final lap: the Playtest → Polish → Playtest Loop.
It's mostly in-person playtests, to see how compelling and helpful the story is to folks with anxiety. So far so good! I just need to: 1) give the minor characters more depth, 2) adjust the comic/serious balance in a few parts, and 3) make sure the "therapy-related" parts actually reflect the most empirically up-to-date knowledge on treatments for anxiety.
And replace all the placeholder art and sound effects. And fix all the bugs. And make it easily translatable. And do the Patreon rewards.
Hm.
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Just a quick progress update today! Next update in three weeks, July 19 Friday. Hopefully the last update before launch.
Thank you all so much for sticking with me! Making this game has helped me a lot with my anxiety – I sincerely hope playing this game will be emotionally helpful to you as making it was for me.
<3,
~ Nicky
