CaramelCowboy

The future of Episode 4

Added 2022-08-09 13:42:36 +0000 UTC

Hey everyone,

This is going to be a public post since I want to talk about the next episode.

Before I even started development of episode 1, I knew that most of my ideas were ambitious and sounded great in theory and not easy to pull off in practice. One example would be the bounty board I'll be adding to the guild. This would add a fair amount of optional side quests like you see in many rpgs. They'll have their own mini story. For those of you familiar with Skyrim, imagine finding Anise's hut. She's a simple old woman but if you decide to push further, you find out she's hiding much more than that.

I know I sound like a broken record when I say this, but the game has managed to survive on my trusty old laptop so far. Now, with a setup I only used to dream of (the 3090), I'm much more confident about these ambitious features also because I know I don't want a simple 'this is the plot. finish it' VN. I have around 20 side quest ideas written down which should be enough for now. Some of them are big, some of them are small. Which ones I implement first aren't decided yet.

Episode 4 will have the same release format as episode 2 did (0.4a and 0.4b).

Why? Because I want to start including more optional quests to the story and I feel like filling a release with optional quests won't be fair to the plot. This sounds like a lot of work and frankly, it is. But I'm now doing this full time and I'm learning more with each release also thanks to the feedback from all of you.

tldr : I love my new pc. Episode 4 will be split in two.

-CC