Saturday Devlog (April 3)

Happy Saturday! As always, I hope everyone is staying safe and healthy.

This has been an interesting week! Not a lot of words added to the core game since the 2.5 ver. Demo's release last Monday, since I've been spending most of it planning and storyboarding the upcoming arc. Wordcount is up +2k since the Monday release, though you can expect it to be at least tripled or quadrupled in the upcoming weeks.

I've been playing around with the chapter's pacing and narrative structures, which is a lot more freeform now that I don't have that memory-shard sequence to guide me along. It's unexpectedly throwing me off! But I'm beginning to figure out an approach that I'm happy with--and once that's out of the way, the actual writing should go along much smoother.

In the meantime, I'm still cracking away at Errand Boy--which is probably some of the most poignant writing I've done, aside from the death/exoneration sequence at the end of the public demo. The story is kind of loaded emotionally--a combination of tension, camaraderie, suspicion, grief, understanding--and it's taking me a while to pick out the diction I need to convey it accurately. But what I do have right now, I'm very proud of. :)

To tide you over in the meantime, I worked with the amazing Jazz (StarlitOpal on the COG forums) to port the amazing leon is sad fanfic into a playable, MC-customizable fangame! It is now up on dashingdon under the name of Sunblind, and you can play it here. (It's a little rough around the edges right now, I'm working on ironing out the kinks as we speak!)

Last but not least, Build 3.0 should feature a couple brand-new stat screen headers for the Magical Codex section, courtesy of the lovely Angie (@eignaite on tumblr and other social media). This was initially planned to be an Arcanist-exclusive sneak peek into the game asset, but with the addition of the new Cast Reacts to Patron Tweet feature (and, potentially, the Snapchat Stories feature if we do hit $600), hopefully the feature being, ah, democratized isn't too damning of a loss.

As always, thank you for supporting the development of A Mage Reborn!