Detailed Weekly Update - August 18, 2024

Hello, good people! New update.

I’ve hit a bit of a stump for the event I’m currently writing about and realized the reason was that I didn’t like how I wrote the MC. I’ve been a bit too focused on writing the “get answers” part of the game and forgot the thing that actually made me write this: living in the shoes of a “genius” villain. I wanted to write something where we see those steps that are always behind the scenes in most forms of media and actually see how our plans slowly start working.

I realized this while writing about how our MC was investigating Michael to find out one of his secrets. And I noticed how our MC has to improvise too much. If you go down the revenge path, aren’t you supposed to plan at least 50% of what is happening? And I mean actual planning from the player, not just hearing that the MC planned it off screen. Aren’t we the genius manipulator here?

So, I’ve started working on making some changes. No longer does our MC carry random stuff to magically solve their problems. That’s lazy and stupid. From now on I plan to implement a mechanic where you choose what you have with you every week. These items can save you from situations or help you get what you want. I’ll try to also add hints along the way to make it clear what items might be useful for each week or event.

I’ll also be revisiting some of the older stuff to try and give the option to prepare for stuff beforehand without just using a cop-out like “luckily, you prepared for that!”

In terms of what I actually wrote, it might sound bad on paper, but I’m still working on Michael’s secret discovery event. It’s now up to around 3.2k words and it’s only halfway done. I’ve decided to make it a bit more complicated for the “get answers” people, as the “evil” path instantly gives you gratification while the “morally right” path is harder and will take more weeks to complete.

Exact word count for chapter 4 - 78,687.

The results of the previous poll are clearly favoring one option. Still, I will add two links to please both parties, since I don't believe it will be that much more work on my part. I'll stop completely updating the demo for now (since there's really nothing special to add) and starting from September will do the double private demos and see how it goes!

I’m also planning on doing another poll like the weakness one soon, so please vote once it’s out! Thank you all for your patience and let’s get revenge on these people!