Progress Report 2022.06.27: Too Hot to Function

Hi friends,

This will be my last progress report for a month. My hiatus is coming up pretty quickly and I have officially run out of time to work on the game. We are also in the middle of a heat wave and it is quite literally too hot to function. 🤣 Needless to say, my overachiever plan to finish Episode 3 in a month was wildly miscalculated.

Game Updates

Episode 2 releases publicly on July 1st. After this day, the public build will be caught up to the alpha. There will be no new alpha content until August (more on that below).

I am working on a patch that should be out later today or tomorrow.

• This will be the final patch for Episode 2 before its public release.
• Because I am adding additional variables, you must replay Episode 2 from the beginning of the episode. If you don’t, your save files will not work correctly later in the game.
• This is (hopefully) the last time an Episode 2 restart is required.
• The build should be stable after this patch.

Alpha Build Updates

Because of my hiatus, there will not be an update to the alpha build until August. Episode 3 Scene 1 is currently about 65,000 words and I still have several branches to finish. Because of the Episode 2 endings, the beginning of Episode 3 is quite complex. I am finished most of Aeran and Veyer's content, but still have to tackle Melchior's and a couple other spots. 

I am hoping that I will be able to finish drafting it in August, then edit, code, and get it added to the alpha build.

July Hiatus

I am gone from July 2 to August 2. Since I haven’t taken any form of vacation since I started working seriously on Wayfarer, this is a much needed break. I have no plans to write while I’m away, but I may get a little bit done here and there.

I have very limited internet access while I’m gone. I will be checking in occasionally, so if you send me a message, it will take a while for me to respond. Since I’m not actively working on the game, I have a whole month of additional content posts planned instead! These are queued to post every Monday and Friday throughout July. Because I am not updating the alpha build before I leave, I am also queueing Episode 3 sneak peaks to post every Wednesday. So, though I won’t be active online, my Patreon will be posting a lot more regularly than it normally does.

I will post a July overview on July 1st that will go over what you can expect. It will be pinned to the top of my Patreon page for easy access.

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