A sort of fortnightly, almost-end-of-August progress report

I've been on holiday for the last couple of weeks and had a truly lovely time with family in the countryside. That two weeks coincided with the first fortnight of beta testing, for which you can see here the changes and fixes I've been making. So far I've been getting really thoughtful, helpful feedback and I appreciate it hugely!

The changes I've been making have been relatively small scale so far, though they make a big difference (and there are a LOT of changes now since the public demo).

In the middle of next week, I'll be back to my usual work routine. So, after Tuesday I'm hoping to take a look at some of the following: more lead-in to the Fiore/Savarel polyamorous relationship, some tweaks to [various redacted spoilery stuff relating to less successful endings to make them more satisfying], expanding PC responses to [some other spoilery late-game stuff], tweaking the pacing of some leisure-time scenes, and more conversation between nonbinary PCs and NPCs about the fact that you're both nonbinary.

...plus anything else that comes up. What's interesting is that (so far) there hasn't been anything really majorly complicated to add, unlike with my other games, so it's going a bit more straightforwardly than it has done on other occasions. I hope to use this time to do some more playtesting myself as well, because I always spot more things to edit when I do that.

The other thing I've been doing is writing a short interactive story about something from the MC's childhood with Denario. That's not far away from being done, so I'll hope to put that on here for Sneak Preview subscribers sometime early in September, and then it'll go up publicly a little while after that.

On 3rd September, I'm meeting for a chat with some other IF authors - we meet semi-regularly to shoot the breeze. If you have a question for anyone, or for the group, let me know in a comment and we'll be posting the answers in public later on in the week.

The group is:

• Jim Dattilo: Zombie Exodus, A Wise Use of Time, VTM: Out for Blood

• Malin Rydén: Fallen Hero, comic book writer

• Zach Sergi: Heroes Rise, Versus

• M. K. England: book writer, now with an upcoming game, Dragon Rider Academy, from CoG