Patreon Devlog - A few days early

Hi everyone!

I decided to do what would normally be my Saturday post a little early.

Since the game will release on my Friday, I feel like Saturday may be too chaotic for me to really have much time to manage a developer update.

As you all know, despite the release of the base game, I still have three more routes to complete so development of Gilded Shadows is continuing.

As of right now I am working on writing Quill's route. My goal is to have it done by the end of June. It's around 60,000 words at the moment but I've been going back through the chapters I've already written to pull everything into a more cohesive alignment.

Because I worked on the chapters bit by bit while doing other things, there were many inconsistencies and repetitions of certain plot elements in early chapters. I also found myself forgetting things that had been addressed already because so much time would pass between writing the various chapters.

I really needed to refresh myself on the things I'd already written and set up so I decided to do an edit of chapters 1-6 before continuing on. It's been really helpful as there were some significant things I had definitely forgotten about mentioning. 

Morgan also has done an astonishing amount of moping in this route. LoL. And while I do think a fair amount of grieving and feeling lost is natural - probably much more than she actually does in any route - for story purposes, it's not good to have her re-hash the same issue 12 times. So I've edited a lot of that out.

Somehow, despite cutting out huge chunks of text...it's still longer than it was when I started editing. LoL

Anyway, I'm in chapter 5 currently. The first Big Plot Event (tm) takes place in this chapter but it's mostly Morgan by herself or with side characters. The early part of Quill's route involves a lot of conversations and dialogue while the latter half will involve much more action and STUFF happening. It's nice to get to deal with STUFF rather than talking in this chapter for a change.

I'm also looking forward to being able to finally start working on the subtle shift in Quill and Morgan's relationship - from friends to something more.

As of right now I know I need at least 2 more sprites that...*probably* won't be "Bobs" and a few Bobs. They keep referring to the person who is the "big bad" of this route but I actually am not sure he's going to need a sprite. I feel bad keeping him faceless though.

I need to find a way to have him interact with Morgan so the player gets the chance to put a face to the antagonist.

There's not a lot to say since I am focusing on writing again and writing means there's not a lot to show off or post! 

So yeah! That's it for now. I'll see you all next week when things have (hopefully) calmed down after release!