Proof of Life #48: Ideas about the endings + some new features
Added 2020-10-26 18:11:48 +0000 UTCHeya guys and gals, gals and guys! N_Taii here with another Monday PoL post!
About HC2's development
Going well, nothing noteworthy to mention. I've done 1 main quest, 1 Neve related side-quest and now in the process of finishing Thania's side-quest. Some are rather short, other pretty long.
Same as I did in Update 2, I will add a skip option for some of the H scenes. However, I won't do it for all of them. I've been thinking about the endings, and I thought it'd be interesting to have new ending options based on whether or not a certain questline has been finished.
Say you've finished Neve's questline, then you'll have the choice to go talk to a character that appeared only in that questline, and said character will open up a new path towards a new possible ending. As such, some scenes containing important informations won't have a skip option, so the player can understand the ending once they get there, and not go like "who's that new guy/girl?".
Another piece of information: I'm going to add a board in the MC's room. This board will have two functions: giving a broad description of HC2's characters and their background, so if players don't remember about someone, they can consult it.
Another function would be to list every side-quest accessible in the game so far, the day and time during which they can be started, as well as the necessary conditions for those quests to appear. Since all main quests are triggered automatically, they won't appear on the board.
Thank you for reading, and have a wonderful week!
N_Taii
Comments
I agree, the quest board idea is sorely needed! :)
snajones
2020-10-30 03:57:31 +0000 UTCOn the 16th, maybe a few days earlier : )
N_taii
2020-10-28 09:55:16 +0000 UTCWhen will the public / 1 tier release of the second update come out?
25th
2020-10-28 09:29:28 +0000 UTCYes, took me long enough to realize that just adding "X quest added on the map" wasn't enough for players to keep track of all of them^^
N_taii
2020-10-27 23:59:48 +0000 UTCvery good, that's really promising! and as long the ntr paths will have enough quantity of contents i'm happy with every other type of contents u will want to add. keep going and good work man.
2020-10-27 13:19:09 +0000 UTCQuest board sounds really Nice, i have to rely on the pdf guide to make sure not to miss any sidequests. Missed one the latest update due to it being mentioned at the end of the guide.
snes33
2020-10-27 10:48:18 +0000 UTCSounds awesome, I'm looking forward to the next couple of updates. :)
TheWanderer
2020-10-27 06:52:17 +0000 UTCI want to dedicate at least two updates (two months), maybe more, for the endings, instead of only 1 like for HC1. That means the players will have to choose from more than 3 endings, although all of them will still fall under NTR/Non-NTR, as well as one of them being the True Ending. Maybe a revenge ending and a non-NTR as two separate endings? One will be a peaceful resolution, "happy ever after" kinda ending, and in the other you'll be able to take revenge upon the antagonists (although not free of consequences). Those are the ideas I have at the moment, we shall see of it all works out in the end.
N_taii
2020-10-27 00:09:01 +0000 UTCYes, a progressive descriptions of the chars is what I was thinking about as well. I will probably have to dedicate a few days in order to implement all the new features properly. As for the gallery, see my comment above : )
N_taii
2020-10-27 00:02:58 +0000 UTCAs with HC1, I'd like to add the gallery only at the end of the game. Normally, what I do with a gallery is create a duplicate of the scene with new triggers, so that the one in game and the one from the gallery don't clash with each other and create bugs. That means that, if I add any new functions like portrait variations etc... to the game, I'd have to implement those in both the main scenes and the gallery ones, so twice the work. That is why, in the meantime, I add the saves which work as a kind of gallery, because they give direct access to the scenes, just like a gallery would. I agree that they are slightly more complicated to use, but it was the solution I came up which served as a workaround. I hope that answered your question : )
N_taii
2020-10-27 00:01:13 +0000 UTCthe endings idea is really juicy, but that mean there will be a lot of endings, or just the canonicals 3 (ntr, happy, true end) with modification of each based on if the player have done X quest or not? because the latter will require really a lot more work, even if in the end i think it will be worth it.
2020-10-26 21:53:25 +0000 UTCThe Character/Quest board sounds great! If you're looking to expand on it you could have the character bios "evolve" over time as the game progresses. I'd also like to see a gallery mode added so hopefully that can make it in a future update.
TheWanderer
2020-10-26 19:45:13 +0000 UTCwill there be a gallery mode? let's say you skip playing for a few updates, you might want to go back for the scenes without replaying the whole game.
xerance
2020-10-26 18:14:41 +0000 UTC
