Weekly Devlog: 1 - 7 July 2024

Hello Patrons! I hope you're having a wonderful, first week of July 💖

The past week was sort of chaotic. I had to pause working on Chapter 10 for a few days as I caught up to the June side stories but I'm happy and relieved to say that they're all complete and I can return to Chapter 10 from tomorrow.

I'm working on the Nomad Tribes path, so I just have Lena's scene to finish off before moving on to a small scene where the gang meet a group of merchants, before I move to the first campsite scene.

The travels will be condensed, so you won't spend days upon days of travel, but I'll try to highlight some key points before we reach the Nomad Tribes. In my grand scheme of chapter outlines, I've decided to add various approaches to how to go about meeting and speaking with the Nomad Tribes. Lena being freed or having escaped will affect the different responses and possible challenges you'll have to face and there will be a possibility to fail in getting the help of the Nomad Tribes which can end badly (no major character deaths!) for our gang.

In the overall plot and the way things play out, you will get varying degrees of success in the epilogue. Different factions have different levels of support where the main, 'good' ending is where you secure alliances with everyone and Irus reclaims his throne. Not everyone will secure every alliance, and this doesn't automatically guarantee failure. It just means you'll have varying degrees of success on certain aspects of the game. You can however fail to get Dena's full support (to be implemented in edits), have Kazan join Virion (Hadi falls to Virion's rule) and fail to impress the Nomad Tribes. The plan is that if you fail at all three of these things, you will not succeed in helping Irus reclaim the throne and you'll get alternate epilogues.

What this long ramble means is that your current game stats is very important. Please send me screenshots of your stats since it'll be helpful when doing stat checks in the last three chapters. The game is a sprawling mass of words and code, so keeping track of each time a stat increases/decreases is impossible without your help.

In other news, the character portraits are nearly halfway done. Female Dena is being worked on and then my artist will move onto male Dena before turning to Elora and Irus. The detail on the outfits is absolutely stunning and I'm crossing my fingers that I can show them to you all very soon!

That's it for this week. Thank you for supporting me and I hope you know just how much I appreciate having you with me on this game development journey 💖😊