Progress Update

Well, the prologue is entirely done. (Except for the part where it's not). I was going to be full swing into CH1 right now, but instead between my own semi-desire to get it done, plus the majority of people telling me I should - I'm going to end up including that scene mentioned in the earlier poll. I'm working on it right now, with any luck it'll be done by tomorrow and then I'll be onto CH1 for the weekend. 

The plus side, when I say the prologue is done I do mean done. Coding, writing, renders, everything except a handful of animations I'm currently working on and that'll be done soon. 

By the way, for all $10 patrons there's a poll currently up, it'll last for another week and a half - feel free to vote on it, and decide who gets the focus in the first chapter! (well, not story-wise but hey. We can't have everything.)

I wanted to take a short little bit and talk about some of the characters. One thing I plan on including in the game is a character bio section - this will include everything you've learned so far in the game, as well as things you "should" know but might not have been explicitly stated. I'll give you an example. (Very minor spoilerish - but not really). A few times through the prologue the MC and his dad mention the MC's mom having a "good" day - and how sometimes it's hard with her. This isn't really ever explicitly stated what this means, though it'll come up much later, and it'll be in the character bio from the beginning. This is because it's stuff the character knows - but it just doesn't make sense to randomly add it in dialogue simply for the sake of explaining it, so it'll be there. Not too often, but sometimes the bios will contain info that the MC should know, but as a player you may or may not. That'll be rare though.

So why the bios? Honestly, because there's a LOT of characters. As of current count there's 46, and that number is likely to grow a bit. Keeping track of it all can be a bit much, so I decided to include a bio section so that you have an easy reference if you ever find yourself saying "Hey wait, who is that?" - all the info you've learned so far in the game (plus the very rare aformentioned instances where it's information that should be shared somehow) will be there. This also means it'll update as you learn more about the characters.

I have all the character bios written, but not the in-game versions. That is, the bios I have written include everything, which does include stuff that won't make it into the first release. So ultimately I'll have to write the in-game bios as I go along. I'm going to be sharing some of those here as they're written - but only for the prologue characters. (The MC, his parents, Henry, Marie, Mia, Jess, Clara, Dirk, Mr. Miller, and Pixie specifically). The rest of the characters won't show up until CH1, so I'll hold off on those until the game is actually released. 

So the plan currently is as follows: Finish that final prologue scene today and tomorrow. Get started on Ch1 over the weekend. Right now I'm sort of hoping for a summer release, although I have a sort of worst case scenario (Not really worst case, it just means I ended up adding more than I anticipated) for September. The important bit is I don't rush anything just to "get it out", and I make sure I strive for a level of quality I'm happy with. 

So there you have it. A poll for $10 patrons currently up, CH1 will begin this weekend, that scene mentioned earlier this week is almost finished, and everything is moving along swiftly! I'll probably have the first of the prologue bios written by next week so I'll have that then - but until then, have a great week!