Long-ish Devlog

Progress:

Today’s FMO update is ~5k long. In it, more about MC’s past (pre-death), and a new branching. To get the new scenes, instead of going with Lotár you need to stay with Saltire and Malitiose when prompted. Later, you’ll get a scene (different for platonic vs romantic route) for either Malitiose, Saltire, Mirren, or Rez. Saltire’s scene is included in this update.

In the next update, I’ll add the others’ scenes, and after that the routes merge, and the baby tyrant will make their entrance.

Aside from that:

- variable issue in chapter 2 is fixed,

- misc changes within the script are added such as minor bug fixes, correcting straight apostrophes, adding missing ‘s’ for Lotár, etc.

- Rez’s POV snippet is up. I used a more friendly MC, but just so you know, a more hostile one would take a little bit longer to warm up to Rez, and vice versa. But the end-game would be the same,

- Laurent’s snippet is out (plays out whenever you want, mid-game, post-game, you decide where it works best in your particular route.). I felt so bad for postponing his route for so long, but I don’t want to share it half-assed, it’s one of my favorite scenes, too, so here, at least, have an unplanned snippet.

As a general update, I am planning on taking a month off commissions starting in late October and use the free time + holiday season to finish as much of FMO as I can, so I can have a paid game out. Juggling two large projects was enjoyable at first, but with my job and commissions and everything it’s starting to get hard to handle, and I get scared I’ll have less time for my own projects. With a paid game out and about, I hope my finances will be more steady (the point is to earn more off my games than the taxes I have to pay for them, aha 😐).

What else, I finally managed to make a clear schedule, so we’re going back to weekly devlogs (I am thinking Sunday-Monday, most likely night, my time). 🥳 I always feel like I am babbling nonsense at you, so I try to keep the notes short, but hey, maybe someone enjoys reading them, so, well, you’ll be seeing more of me from now on.

Also, a tentative plan for Inktober is to use the prompts for illustrations with my ROs along with some idle 15-20 minutes sketches a day, so if you’d like me to use your MC for a particular pairing, do let me know (comments, DMs, Discord, as always, take a pick).

Thank you again for bearing with me, guys! That's all for now! Mwah! ❤️

PS: I just noticed the shop feature! 👀 I think I might bring the stickers back. Stay tuned! 

📌 A repeated note for the new patrons:

- if you're looking for extra scenes and spice, and haven't checked the extended version of the Perfumare demo [VN] yet, please do so,

- some extras (interactive) are bundled up and can be accessed from the same file. Some, though, are posted separately, so please make sure to browse through all the posts,

- partial updates of routes are often replaced, so you only need to download the newest file to have all the previous updates (i.e. when route 3 of 3 is posted, all previous updates/routes are included).

📌 FMO Beta will be now updated to a fresh itch.io page instead of the docs. The password will be changed with every new update.

📌The Guide is updated chapter-by-chapter. You only need to download the latest file.

📌I am periodically deleting old/obsolete partial builds/versions of games that have the full version out. I will leave the posts here since they have some info and comments included, but just so you know to not be surprised by a deleted file.