Progress Report 2024.09.20: September Update

Hi all! 

I hope you all have been having a good month. I don’t have much to share in terms of an update, other than I have been very busy writing and getting through this next section of the finale. The new character interactions are a lot of fun to write, but there is a lot of cross-referencing that has to be done in order to bottleneck properly and keep the continuity straight. So while there is progress, it is kind of happening in 500-1000 word chunks every day, which in the grand scheme of things doesn’t look like too much.

Sometimes a branch leads to another sub branch and then to a sub branch… 

I’ve had to put some things on hold for a bit because I have some family things coming up in October where I won’t be able to write consistently. I’ve also been poking around with Wayfarer’s code and have discovered a solution to a very old problem with the CC. However, I only got half-way through updating it and I haven’t had the time to finish it, so all patches are on hold until I get it fixed since it will break the CC if I leave it unfinished. 

(The CC is the most fiddly part of the game, I try to avoid going into its code if I can even though I know a number of ways I could streamline it and make it better. So much hangs on it and I don’t want to break save files unnecessarily. Unfortunately, it is put together with spaghetti and string.) 

I am also considering removing the Quick Character Creator so I can appropriately reference choices made during the Prologue and avoid some issues that the QCC has caused over time (namely with how you can go back and edit your selections—if you go back, your variables are reset completely to the defaults and the game doesn’t remember what you selected; so you need to select all your options again, and this can cause confusing bug reports on my end). 

Lastly, I am very late to updating the 2024 roadmap with adjustments. As it stands right now, Episode 3 likely will not be released by the end of the year. I am optimistic that the finale will be finished by the end of December, but not the alternate starting routes. The alternate paths through Diradan Tower are going to be cut for time. At this time, I can’t estimate when those are going to be complete. 

Thank you all so much for your support! If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to let me know below. 💖