17/03/2024 Patreon Devlog

Ramble

Hallo~oo! Time for this week's update.

I realised when writing this that my updates look exactly like last week. *insert Discord melty smile* 😭

Summary

• Editing Chapter 6

Writing

So I am nearly done with Chapter 6. It was one of  the shortest chapters when I started and it has moved up in the ranks a little.

I also forgot that there's some SUPER annoying branching in one of the scenes and I structured it weirdly and confused myself. But all is good now. I figured out my own script. 

Yay me. 💪

I had just forgotten that there's a lot of variation that happens based on your interactions with a guy you meet in this chapter. Huge variations are always fun for the player but super annoying to edit and deal with as a creator.

I had to do some re-organising of the scenes and figuring out some code-related stuff (like how I'm going to call certain variables, etc.

Anyway, I just have a couple of moments to finish up with and this chapter is done.

On a slightly related topic...

Originally I was thinking that I would release Chapter 5 and Chapter 6 as a pair because Chapter 6 was fairly short as a chapter that was added in later on for pacing purposes. 

But it's turned into a very respectable chapter on its own at over 35,000 words. That said, I think I'm still going to release them as a pair.

Based on the way the branching works, sometimes even chapters that are 30k - 40k words can still feel much shorter (especially if someone isn't playing all the available content.) This is because the content is so highly branched out that you may see only half of that amount (or less) on a single play through of the chapter.

For instance, if I released this chapter as its own episode later, someone who was only playing through one character's content would probably see 15,000 words or so only. That's 1 hour of play time.

So this is also something I'm trying to keep track of as I edit. Because I would really like the episodes to have a smooth and logical schedule once I am finally able to start releasing them.

Art

None! I haven't heard from my BG artists since last time. 😭

Other

Continuing to update the menu screens here and there...

I have also worked on setting up the Fancy Guide (™) which I usually do in my spare time or when editing purgatory has made me want to chew my own head off.

Upcoming

I should finish up chapter 6 either today or tomorrow (depending how much time I actually have to edit today).

Chapter 7 is another really big chapter at 64,000 words. But unlike Chapter 6, the "common" content has already been edited one time, as well as all of Asher's content. So that chapter is already about 30% edited.

Once chapter 6 is complete I will be about 73% finished with editing the current game content.

So even though it's been going slow and I've been complaining a lot....I actually am nearly ¾ of the way done with editing.

It just doesn't feel that way. Ha ha.

I keep telling myself to take a break from editing and work on some CGs or something but editing purgatory won't release me. 😭 But it would be nice to do some art for a change. 

Anyway, that is all for now. I will see you all next week!