Proof of Life #133: Crafting a world that feels alive, NPCs everywhere

Hello everyone, N_Taii here! How have you been doing since last week?

I don't have a whole lot to say in this PoL, because, same as last week, it has mostly been filled with relatively repetitive work. Since I've put a lot of efforts into the maps and creating the harbor district, I really want to avoid it feeling underused.

Finally, I have put new NPCs on every map and every timeframe, gave some of them routes to follow around the district, and made sure every guard and every person you can interact with have their very own lines of dialogue. I had to create a bunch of new NPCs to not have always the same ones everywhere after the time skip, and modified most of them to have a "sitting version", to avoid a recurring issue with most RPGM game that have their NPCs literally standing on their chair. I also added them in and outside the tavern. Sitting NPCs won't have any lines of dialogue though, because if they did, it would take a lot of time to add them, and talking to them while they're glued to their chair would feel unnatural anyway.

I've also started to devise some NTR mini-stories to happen on the map. For those who are new here, those mini-stories will have some of the NPCs on the map progress with their own lives without any MC interaction until the NTR happens to them too. For example, I mentioned a street musician having one of his loyal fangirl that comes to see him play every time slowly stolen away by another man in the crowd. Well, you can see him in the gif above. Now, to find solo guitar songs that would blend in well a medieval fantasy settings.^^

That's it for this week. I've also started contacting artists to make HC3's introduction speech's illustrations, and I have seen the progress made on the game's banner/menu screen illustration. 

Now, I'll get back to the game and work on feedback I've received from people, such as adding 1-2 new freeroam events in the introduction, or try implementing an option to hide the speech window by pressing a key, and more.

Thank you for reading, and have a wonderful week!

N_Taii