Saturday Devlog (August 27)
Added 2022-08-28 02:27:12 +0000 UTCHi, everyone! Hope you're staying safe and healthy!
Development on the next update has run a little behind this week, owing to a combination of college starting and a really poorly-timed writer's block. All goes well, I should still be able to drop the update by the end of the month; what will have to be pushed back, however, is the planned side story for August. I'm looking to publish that in early September, as I've already got a fair bit of it written out! Right now, however, I'm focusing all my efforts on getting the update to end where I want it to be plot-wise.
Speaking of which! Given how bulky the interlude chapter has turned out to be, there are going to be certain scene variations missing from the update. The big omissions are the friendship variant of Leon's route, as well as Ilya's letter-reading scene. The interlude has a very specific mood it wants to portray, and unfortunately my inspiration for that mood has completely run dry. TT Once I moved on to Chapter 10's more light-hearted scenes, the words flowed like water again. And so for the sake of the update being finished in a timely manner, I've unfortunately had to left the interlude with several holes in it for now. I hope for your understanding TT
Wordcount-wise, we're still looking at 23k-25k words for the full update. I'm currently 19k words in, and I hope to burst down the rest of the update this weekend, as I've got my schedule all cleared up. Chapter 10 opens with a bit of fluff after the angst-train of the past few updates, and I'll be sharing the sneak peek for that a bit after this post goes up!
I've also received a couple of phantasma illustration art, namely of Gweila and Qualia (Eli's phantasma). I will also be posting these shortly for patrons at Arcanist and above. There's one more on the way (Airas), which I've received the sketch for, and I should be able to post them before September rolls around. I've also received some of the monthly feature art, but these I will bulk-post together with the August demo update.
Lastly, and this is unfortunately not exactly happy news - I think I'll be taking September to do a much-needed housekeeping update for AMR. We haven't had one since Book 1's 2.5 Demo two years ago(!), and there's a lot of bugs and errors that I've been itching to hunt down for a long time now (my poor beta testers have been so patient with me, haha). Naturally, Patreon charging will be turned off for the month--and if I'm lucky, I could also put work in towards completing the interlude in the meantime. Any progress made to the demo will be rolled over to October's update, which should hopefully hover around the 25k-word mark as well.
And that about wraps it up for this week's update! As always, thank you for supporting the development of A Mage Reborn!
Comments
Ilya's scene is structured differently in that it is a longer, singular scene, as opposed to one with split versions like Leon's will be. Her scene was intended to follow Leon's template initially, but I didn't quite like how the scene flowed and so settled on a rewrite. To answer your question, though - Ilya's letter scene will be shown no matter which options you choose. This is in fact the case for all the characters - that is, even if you had entered Leon's romance path, his friendship-letter scene will still be shown if it had been picked during Book I. The only exception to this is Saine, whose letter-reading scene is preconditioned upon the player having met him during the Yotai festival. In all other cases, every letter picked during Book I will be unconditionally read/acknowledged by the relevant characters!
adam rifky
2022-08-31 00:54:04 +0000 UTCIs Ilya's letter-reading scene in her romance route or her friendship route?
Dahariel
2022-08-28 15:49:17 +0000 UTC
