Dev Plans (April 1st - May 1st)

With the completion of Dungeon 2 I can stop rushing through main story content and focus on fleshing the world of the game out. I'll also look to start tackling some of the stuff that was previously missed.

That being said, there's once again three main focus points this month.

1. Implementing the next Side Quest

The next side-quest features 5 unique characters that were chosen by lucky Tier 3 and 4 winners. The side quest is pretty large and will feature multiple endings and choices that affect the characters. This trend will continue with every side-quest, and in general you can expect side-quests to all have multiple endings.

With this in mind, due to the large amount of work that this side quest will take, it may take longer than a month to fully finish it. Hopefully that's not the case though.

(Maybe I shouldn't have put such a large side-quest on the dev polls...)

ANYWAYS,

2. Preparing Story Content for Future Expansion

Currently there's a few things that need implementing to prepare the story to enter it's 3rd chapter, which really is the chapter where it fully starts to kick off. In the first two chapters it's more vague, but once we start the 3rd chapter the story really does get a lot more in-depth.

More characters and content will need introduced and unfortunately for me that takes time. Thankfully it's pretty planned out, so it's mostly just dedicating the time to creating the necessary maps, music, character designs, storyboarding, etc.

3. Implementing Backers Choice

The same as last month, the character the backers choose get a guaranteed event. At the moment it seems like Sapphire is the lucky winner this time, but if that's not true in a few days we shall see.

(SIDE NOTE)

After the next side-quest is implemented, I'll likely begin hunkering down and planning what I want the final combat system to look like. I know combat isn't a major concern for most players, but I feel like the current design is problematic and doesn't add to gameplay at all. I'm looking into various systems, but haven't decided what I want it to look like yet.

But this is a future concern! As always I appreciate your support and look forward to releasing more content to you! 

Thanks again, 

TDL