07/04 Patreon Devlog

Hi Everyone! Sorry for the late devlog this week. Yesterday was a bit crazy and I basically forgot until it was very late.

Then I stayed up until 4:30 AM doing art.

So today I've essentially been a zombie. (To everyone reading this and thinking "We told you so!" ….I bite you). >=D

Writing:

So for Caleb's route I both made and lost progress. I did have to kind of back edit a bit and remove some of what I had written, which set me back. And now I've gotten myself back to where I was before I did that. Chapter Ten is complete again and I'm working on Chapter Eleven…

Which has love scenes. 

=w= LoL

I can't catch a break, man.

The good news is that I'm rounding the homestretch finally. I have one more "character" chapter and then it's on to the story climax! Basically three more full chapters, then the "Endings" chapter - which is always a fair bit shorter than the others, and involves no branching.

My usual method of writing involves writing a potato draft, then editing it up to a revised, but still rough state. Caleb's route is giving me such problems that I decided to skip step two for now. I'm leaving them in their full potato glory as I move to the next chapter.

This just means when I edit the route later, I'll have to do clean up first, then proper revision right after (or at the same time). But I just want to be done with this route so I can get my head out of it and do some other things.

One thing different about Gilded Shadows over Changeling is that there aren't currently any "friend" endings - or non-romantic endings besides the ones where you die. I'm strongly considering if I want to keep it that way or not.

If so, I'm considering not having these endings be "build up" style endings like the good endings, but allowing the player to make a single choice to not pursue a relationship with the LI at some point. I haven't decided yet, but it's something I'm bandying around.

Anyway, yeah. That's all for writing this week I think.

Art:

This week in backgrounds, we received two images of Braesil, the city where Endgame's HQ is located. I'll also be reusing a couple of New Albion's BGs to represent Braesil as well since the cities are said to be somewhat similar. But in this one, you can see the city properly.

We also got a sketch for...an elevator. 

A surprising amount of scenes take place in the Cor Solaris elevator (NOT WHAT YOU ARE THINKING…..probably.)

Coding: 

I did start to code in a couple of the sprites I finished expressions for. Just trying to get those out of the way now. It's not that exciting and none of these characters show up for a while.

But it needs to be done regardless. So yeah.

Music:

This week, we didn't get any new music but our composer did release the soundtrack to Gilded Shadows on Spotify and Amazon music. 

As such, we also released the soundtrack to KS backers and our highest tier patrons.

The spotify link is here:

https://open.spotify.com/album/5uSzko7i2TPQgnw4rLT4dO

The one we released to supporters is slightly different as it has a few extra tracks that didn't make it into the official release.

But you can give the music a listen and look forward to hearing how some of these tracks are used in the game! 

Upcoming Week:

I do have a medical appointment coming up this Friday and it's probably going to be an all-day thing so I don't think I'll be able to get a Friday update out for you guys. 

Just wanted to let you know in advance.

Otherwise, this upcoming week, I want to finish Caleb chapter 11 and, hopefully, get started on chapter 12 where there will be a surprise appearance by some of the Crimson characters and the introduction of a new character that is kind of mushed into the existence of another character who was going to be an antagonist in another route.

Sometimes you just realise a character won't work as-is and they undergo a transformation. And that is what Brenin did.

I have no particular plans for art or coding - just whatever strikes my fancy (if anything.)

So that's all for this week! We shall see you next time!