Progress Report 2022.08.29: Ups & Downs

Hi friends,

As the end of the month is coming up, I just wanted to get you caught up to where progress currently is. Unfortunately, I’ve contracted Covid and I am quite ill at the moment. I can’t really work on the game while I am sick (the brain fog is real). Fingers crossed that it won’t take me too long to recover, but everything’s been brought to a stop for the time being.

The Patch

The major Episode 2 patch is being playtested. I have a few more things I need to add before it goes live, but they are minor tweaks. I’d like the new Neutral Approval route of the Aeran fight to be tested a little bit more before I release it.

Episode 3

Scene 1 is very slowly coming together. I had hoped to have to finished by the end of August, but between settling back in after my trip and getting caught up, doing the patch, and now getting sick, I have not written nearly as much as I planned this month.

Due to the many possible end points in Episode 2, I’ve split scene 1 into four branches based on the MC and Aeran’s physical location.

• Branch 1: This covers the events that occur when the MC and Aeran both end up in the apartment, including the following sub branches: the romance reconciliation, the friendship reconciliation, the low romance variations, and the romance and friend break ups. This branch is about 75% complete and is the most content dense/complex branch of Scene 1.
• Branch 2: This covers the events that happen if the MC sleeps with Veyer. This branch is about 80% complete.
• Branch 3: This covers the events that happen if the MC ends the night at Melchior’s party, including the following sub branches: getting high with Kit, drinking alone, drinking with Melchior, hanging out with Melchior, sleeping with Melchior, etc. This branch is 0% complete.
• Branch 4: This covers the events that happen if the MC ends the night at the apartment, but Aeran is not present. This includes all the other miscellaneous sub branches, including drunk route. This branch is 0% complete.

Hopefully things will be back to normal soon! Even though the timeline has been pushed back a bit, the plan is still the same: to get Scene 1 drafted, edited, and coded as soon as possible, and added to the alpha build.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out. As always, thank you all so much for your support! 💕