Progress Report 2022.03.07

Hi friends,

Happy March! Just a quick progress report for this week. I’m still working through the last scenes of Episode 2 (which are coming along), and I’ve made a couple of small additions to my Patreon which I’ll go over in a moment.

Game Updates

Episode 2 Scene 4 is currently at 50k words. I’ve finished a major dialogue branch (which can drastically affect the outcome of the scene and the player’s options going into Episode 3). It’s good to have that done, but I still have some more important exposition sections to get through before I can wrap it up and move onto Scene 5 (which I am excited for, I've been dying to write Scene 5 for months now 😂). 

There’s a lot going on here in terms of exposition, so there’s a bit more re-writing and re-drafting going on than usual to make sure the pacing works. I’m hoping that I can stay focused this week and get most of Scene 4 finished by Friday. Scene 5 is the last scene of the episode and is mostly a major conversation with Aeran and a few other characters.

Patreon Updates

I’ve made a couple small changes to my Patreon (nothing major).

Sneak Peaks are now an official benefit for all tiers. These are the WIP snippets/episode previews from my WIP documents and are Patreon exclusives (I won’t be cross-posting them to my development blog or anything like that). Since I’m always writing new material, there’s always something to share. Sneak peaks will be posted on Wednesdays (sometimes they’ll be a little longer, sometimes they may be only a paragraph or two).

I also added a new goal to my Patreon. While I’m still working towards the long-term goal of making Wayfarer’s development my full-time job, I’ve added a $2000 per month stretch goal. If I reach this goal, I want to replace the current Q&A schedule (Q&As are released after an episode is published; I’ve only done two so far since starting my Patreon last year) and make them a monthly event. I also want to launch a dedicated website for my IF projects so I have a place to share my public Twine/IF tutorials that doesn’t break the code and have a more professional landing page than my tumblr development blog.

As always, thank you all so much for your support! 💕