Chrysanthemum Games

Weekly Update - 8 May 2023

Added 2023-05-08 02:00:01 +0000 UTC

Hello all!

It's been quite a week! I'm overwhelmed by the response to Chapter Eight, and trying to keep up with the influx of messages to my askbox haha. Fortunately none of them have been bug reports, which is always a big relief.

Meanwhile, I continue to trek forward on Chapter Nine, which starts off with a pretty big plot development that the PC can respond to in numerous ways. This is going to be something of a tough one to write in some senses, because none of the ROs will be making an onscreen appearance as it's laid out now. Granted, it should be a reasonably short chapter before the behemoth that will be Chapter Ten, and there are very good reasons for everyone's absence, but it does mean the chapter has to be carried by the strength of interactions with characters like Demeter, the Olympian goddesses, and Daeira.

Sort of a weird time to be allowing the player to fill in more PC backstory, but I think it will work out, and hope you'll forgive me for the necessary change of setting. I may allow the chosen RO/PO to sneak in via a dream sequence, but that's something I'm still debating.

Anyway! It's pretty exciting stuff in a way, because it is catapulting the story towards its climax, and the myth towards its resolution. I'm looking forward to sharing it with you.

Up this week is a bonus content, which will most likely be a questionnaire featuring Hekate this time. Other than that, I'll be back in this slot next week with another update on how it's going!

Words I wrote this week: 11,000 (bringing FoA to over a million in total!)