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Progress Report 2022.01.11

Hi friends,

Happy January! I hope everyone had a good holiday and a good New Year’s.

Game Updates

The month is really flying by for me. I’ve been a bit quiet since getting the alpha build update out as soon as possible is my number one priority right now. I finished drafting the party sequence a few days into January. Since then, I’ve done most of my personal edits, the draft has been proofread by my editor, and I’ve started coding. Currently, I have about 60% of t...

Mapmaking: Velantis

This month's bonus content is a process video for the map of Velantis. I decided to change it up a little and try a "speedbuild"-style video with a voice over explaining my different tools and strategies for mapmaking. 

I use Wonderdraft for all of Wayfarer's in-game maps and this is a quick look at how I got from this:

To this:

2021-12-28 17:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post

Progress Report 2021.12.27

Hi friends,

Happy holidays!

I hope you all have had a relaxing, stress-free time. I took several days off around Christmas to rest and spend time with family and friends (over Zoom and phone calls, as the current Covid situation isn’t that great in my area). I haven’t taken any proper time off from game development for a while aside from a few sick days here and there. It’s been nice to actually press pause on Wayfarer and relax for a bit. We even have a little bit of snow! ...

Chapter 1 Guide: Part I

Happy holidays!

Due to Chapter 1’s complexity, the official walkthroughs will be divided into different sections. Because I think Patreon posts aren’t the easiest way to showcase a guide, once the full chapter is covered, I’ll either put all the walkthroughs together into a downloadable PDF with a table of contents or create a Patreon-only webpage that has a navigation.

You’ll be able to find any released guides under 2021-12-25 01:34:05 +0000 UTC View Post

WIP Snippets

I've been thinking about the way I'm sharing WIP snippets (excerpts from the current in-progress section of the game that haven't been coded and added to the alpha build). Previously, I have occasionally tacked them on to the end of progress reports, but recently I've been sharing these on the Patreon-only section of the Discord server. Discord is a much easier platform for engagement and reactions than Patreon, but not everyone has Discord. Conversely, not everyone checks Patreon. 

Progress Report 2021.12.13

Hi friends,

A short update for today. The past two weeks have been incredibly busy (balancing life things with work things, as you do). While I’m not where I want to be with the chapter, I am still getting parts of it done every day, so progress is happening!

To recap from the last few progress reports: I’m currently working on Chapter 2 Scene 2, which is the largest and most complex scene of the chapter. The MC is attending a gala and the exploration mechanic lets the player ...

Progress Report 2021.11.29

Hi friends,

Just a quick update to round out November. It’s been a bit of a tough month; I did have to take some time off earlier as I was feeling under the weather and my province is currently in a state of emergency due to severe flooding. While my area is safe and relatively unaffected, I have family and friends who have been flooded and the whole situation is a tad stressful.

Game Updates

I have still been able to get a lot of work done on Chapter 2. I’m happy with...

Character Profile: Calla Tormond

Spoilers for Calla's backstory, but no spoilers for the major points of her character arc. If you want to go into his character arc completely blind, I suggest skipping this post.

Calla is the disinherited scion of House Tormond, a wealthy Faran family now living among the Faran diaspora in Velantis. She was born in Varthrandir, the capital of Farandor, shortly before the family re-located to Rhesainia to escape the Faran Civil War. Arriving in Velantis sometime after its Imper...

Progress Report 2021.11.16

Hi friends,

November’s a little bit of a weird month. Fall and winter are very dark and dreary where I live. It’s hard to get anything done when you don’t see the sun for weeks on end and everything is damp (we just had a historic amount of rainfall that was twice as much rain in two days as we normally see in the whole month of November; our area thankfully hasn’t had to be evacuated, but much of the province is wrecked by rain).

I’ve been struggling a lot with seasonal...

Map of Velantis & Notes on Key Locations

I shared the map of Velantis earlier in Wayfarer’s Discord server, but I thought I would cross-post it here as well, along with notes on the various important locations.

This map is still a draft. I am relatively happy with it, although there are some things that I am still not 100% on (there are a lot of important locations that would be informative to include, but it runs the risk of making the map overcrowded). I will likely be adding this version to the game in the next alpha buil...

Update Schedule Poll

Hi friends, 

As I'm progressing through Chapter 2's content, I wanted to get an idea of your preferences for updates. I've always approached the alpha build with an "update when a major story section is finished" mindset, but that does mean that there are long breaks between updates. 

Since I do finish individual story beats relatively quickly (i.e. a dialogue branch, a single interaction, etc), it is possible to have more updates, but with significantly shorter content....

Progress Report 2021.11.03

Hi friends,

It’s November!

This month I am continuing development on Chapter 2. The alpha build was updated on November 1st, so if you haven’t checked out the new content yet, see this post here (also pinned to the top of Patreon). This will give you the link and November’s password to the alpha build.

Game Updates

With Scene 1 finished (which covers the MC’s arriv...

Wayfarer Alpha Build 1.1.2.

Hi friends, 

The first part of Chapter 2 is finally here! From now on, the alpha build will always contain content not available on the public build. 🥳

What This Update Includes

• Scene 1 (out of 4 scenes)
• 5 new codex entries
• +60,000 words of new content

Please note that some unlockable content is in development. There are a couple of unlocked codex entries that haven't been written yet and the Velantis map still needs to be made. ...

Progress Report 2021.10.27

Hi friends,

Just a quick update for the end of October. I have finished drafting Chapter 2 Scene 1. This is quite a hefty scene (“scene” doesn’t really cover it), which means there will be a lot of material to explore when the alpha build updates. The whole thing clocks in just shy of 60,000 words, which is definitely on the long end for a Wayfarer section (oddly it’s around the same length as the Viridian Lady sequence in Chapter 1).

I want to get the alpha build updated ...

Progress Report 2021.10.20

Hi friends,

October has been a pretty challenging month. I’ve talked about this on some of my progress reports before, but I have pretty severe chronic dry eye syndrome, which impacts my ability to write and code the way I want to. I’ve been in and out of the optometrist’s office over the summer and fall for various treatments, and I’ve been in different levels of eye pain and fatigue throughout the last two months.

While the condition is starting to get under control agai...

The Undercity [WIP LORE]

Little is said publicly about Velantis’ seventh—and hidden—district. Located beyond the harbour slums and the factories of the industrial quarters, the Undercity is among Velantis’ poorest regions. By virtue of its geography, it is cut off from the rest of the city. Without the watchful eye of Velantian officials, it has become a breeding ground for organized crime and other underworld operations.

Location

The Undercity is located within the Messeidan Go...

Progress Report 2021.10.06

Hi friends,

This is just a quick update about what I’ve been working on. I am (unsurprisingly) behind schedule from the one I posted on Sept. 16th—I am still pretty bad at estimating how long things will take me and also how much space each plot beat actually takes up.

Game Updates

Even though it’s not done yet, I am very pleased with where Chapter 2 Scene 1 is currently at. The beginning of the chapter was incredibly tricky to start because of the c...

The Meissandium [WIP LORE]

Some details and names are WIP and may change as the game develops.

Of all the ancient organizations in Rhesainia, the Meissandium is perhaps the oldest and most powerful of all. As the dominant religious organization on the continent, Meissandic temples appear in all countries and its clergy are respected members of society. Though religious belief has shifted and changed over the past millennium (thanks, in part, to research pursued by the Guild of Mages and the Arcanists’ ...

Episode 1 Creator Q &A

Hi friends, 

My partner and I are here to answer some of your burning questions about Wayfarer! The podcast is divided into two sections--writing and game development, then worldbuilding and character questions. 

Spoiler warning for ALL of the Prologue and Chapter 1's content.

TRANSCRIPT

(Tried using transcription software to reduce the amount of time to do this... it worked okay. Just know that Melchior/Mel was either ...