The Halfway Mark

Will's route is now halfway written, which is when my writing speed really picks up steam. As of the end of chapter 2 we're at 37.5k words.  There's a lot happening in chapter 3 and of course the two chapter 4s, so Will's route may be slightly shorter than Robins, but not by much. And I believe the main culprit is the fact that Robin just spits out so many more words than Will. As for who spits out the most meaningful content, well.

Our script and coding should be ready in time to launch Will's route during the summer. I will give more specific dates once I'm more sure of the exact completion time and the readiness of our visual assets.

And in good news, my new doctor is doing a great job helping to narrow down the exact causes of my long Covid symptoms. I should also be referred to a specialist by the summer. Future route production will definitely be faster if I can manage Normal and Necessary Human Activities(tm) without spending the next day dead asleep.

Patch Incoming

Having received the graphical assets I've been waiting for, I have completed a small patch to the existing game client. We were very proud to see that Robin's route launched relatively bug-free!  There were a few dialogue tag issues that we missed during Beta (no wonder, with so much dialogue in there!) and some other minor typos and anachronism issues.

The patch is ready to go but since I'll be out of town this weekend, I'm going to launch it on Monday just in case anything catastrophic happens. That's highly unlikely considering the changes made, but never say never in game dev. :-p  You should see the patch announcement on Itch (if you're following us) and Steam when it happens.

I also replaced the enchanted arrow graphic with an improvement and replaced Alvin's sexy silhouette with our new style. The new style better matches the game's overall style and IMO it's a fair bit sexier, as well. Here's the new image!

Will is getting two sexy silhouettes (this should be our number for every route going forward; we'll get a second one for Robin at some point as well), and one of them contains a neat scenario that will let Lawrichai do something a little different with the silhouette forms.  I'm excited about it.

See y'all next month!