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Progress Report 104: The Way I Forgot…

Added 2025-01-17 20:43:31 +0000 UTC

Hello all,

So, I am only realizing now that I forgot to do a progress report on January 3rd, so it has been a while! 😅 I think between getting Wayfarer’s Q1 out and announced, and getting ahead on my social media for the next three months it just somehow completely slipped my mind. However, I didn’t really have much to say on Jan 3 anyway other than the plan for the first half of the month, which is now over.

Things I Did:

Social media and Patreon posts (minus progress reports since I write those the day of) are drafted and queued up until the first week of April, which means I only have to focus on writing and game development. Yay!
For the first time in a long time, Episode 3 is actually on track with what I have planned! Yay! The main structure of Finale Part 1 Version A – Branch 1 (see the Q1 roadmap for what I mean) is finished, which means I just have to fill in the gaps from dialogue choices and write some alt dialogue.

This is going to take a little bit, but it is in very good shape and I am aiming to have it finished by Jan 24. Though Finale Part 1 Version B looks like it’s massive, a lot of the gameplay is going to be the same text as Version A. Once Version A is done, all that is left is to go through the whole document and add in flavour text / change references as needed to reflect the correct continuity.

I am hoping to finish these branches at around the 100,000 word mark (the document is currently 72,000), but we’ll see what happens. Certain characters like to talk, and can talk a lot. I don’t have a good sense of how this is going to play yet—this is the most complicated dialogue sequence to date, so even though this word count is very high due to variations (saying different things, going down different paths, successes/fails) what you actually play in one playthrough is going to be much smaller. Checking how it flows together will be something for the playtesting team once the finale is finished.

I am a little too sleepy today to make a to do list graphic (I cut caffeine out recently which has been excellent for my overall health but if I don’t get enough sleep I sure feel it the next day 🤣), but this is what is on the agenda:

Things I Am Going to Do:

Jan 20-Jan 24: finish all variations within Finale Part 1 Version A Branch 1
Jan 27-Jan 29: Add in Version B Flavour text
Jan 30-31: Another pass through to make sure everything connects

For the first time in a long time I am actually satisfied with my progress and I am excited to be flying through this. A fun fact, Quirinus' name is written 364 times in this document and I'm sure there are going to be more. Maybe it will end up being a full 400.