Weekly progress report #84

«I've been framed!»

Hello! Welcome to August. Thank you so much for staying with me! Time for another progress report. First, I want to say that the new demo is almost finished. 95% finished, in fact. It's gonna be released next week. However, I have a lot of sprites to make, and unlike my regular renders I can't just schedule them, and leave the place. I gotta be in front of my computer, which means I'll have to find time. But it's gonna happen this week 100%.

Second, our story poll for the slums character that we're going to keep ended up in a tie. I'm not disappointed, but I'm a bit puzzled. Given how far ahead Pepper, and Jasmine are, I assume that if I pick either of them some people are going to be angry. Which is why I've made a special decision, and I'm gonna bring BOTH of them to the city. Yay, more work. It's important to note, however, that this is going to affect their storylines slightly, and also now they won't get into Deliverance by default. You're gonna vote for characters that are going to move into Deliverance, and both Pepper, and Jasmine will be a part of the roster. There you go.

Now, to hard numbers. As I mentioned before, v0.13 is going to be pretty much entirely equal to v0.12 in size. About 250k words, about 650 pictures. I've missed a lot of time during these three months thanks to my health problems, but I tried to do my best to speed things up. You'll notice, though, that the last couple of days are going to be kinda short, but that's only because they have a lot of branching that's determined by your previous choices. Here's something to keep in mind: Blake can escape the slums with Kushari (alone of with Iris), with [someone else] (again, with or without Iris), with Iris herself (this option is available even if Blake was never able to visit her) or can just wait until they get saved. Each of this slums endings will bring you to a different part of the city storylines, and some of them are drastically different. I hope you'll forgive this ambition of mine. I understand that not everyone plays adult games to enjoy the intricacies of the story, but I'm just very proud of this slums part. We're gonna have more fun later on, I promise.

Anyway, that's about it. I'm sure I forgot something, but that's okay. The important parts are: the demo is very close, and it's gonna be big. That's it for now. Thanks again, and have a nice day!