Wayfarer's Story Log
Added 2022-06-08 02:30:31 +0000 UTCHi folks,
As I've been patching Episode 2, it's becoming clearer that maintaining the Story Log's specifics is extremely time consuming and tedious. While I really want the player to be able to reflect on the major/important events and choices of their playthrough, coding the Story Log and making sure it is free of mistakes is an absolute nightmare. This doesn't have to do with continuity tracking, but rather making sure multiple conditional statements are written in the right order, in the right way, with the correct passage titles being referenced. This doesn't even include the hassle of formatting conditional bullet points lists that gets me pretty close to tearing out my hear every time I look at it.
I'm leaning more and more towards ditching the "Your Journey So Far..." portion of the Story Log. You would still get an episode summary with the major events referenced, but you would not get the detailed break down.
Please let me know your thoughts! If the "Your Journey So Far..." section falls into a "nice to have, but not necessary" category for most folks, then I will get rid of it and call it a day. But if most folks want to see it stay, then I will work out a different system for recording those conditional choices without inflating the game history.
