Friday Night Beach Chat #72 (Patreon)

Hello and welcome back to Paradise!

Another week, some more progress. The release of Part 2 approaches quickly.

Work is going smoothly with still a lot of rendering to do. I had hoped to show off an early look at the Gallery page but something came up and didn't have time to finish it. Hopefully next week I'll be able to show it off. I want to have a limited version of the Gallery app shipping with Part 2. I still need to do a lot more testing on it.

Don't have much more to report at the moment, next week also hope to be able to introduce a new feature in the Beach Chats. Island Lore; basically details about the island and it's history to be released in weekly chapters. Complete with maps and maybe some bonus renders in the form of historical pictures. I have no idea how many chapters there will be but they will eventually be assembled together and available to read in the in-game phone as an app.

You will get to read it before anyone else every week. :-)

The island has history dating back to the 1940's and it's all lore that exists in my design doc and most of it will never make an appearance in the actual story. Bits and pieces will be referenced by characters during the story perhaps but that's it.

It's not critical to the story being told in the game but interesting to those who might be curious about the geography and history of the island.

I know I've mentioned it in some comments before but I don't think I've mentioned it in one of these Beach Chats. Paradise City; specifically the island was designed as a franchise setting. While the story of Paradise City is accelerating towards it's conclusion (most likely only 8 chapters perhaps 9). There will be more stories told in this setting in the future; different characters, different scenarios, different time periods.

Sneak Peeks:

That's it for this week, have a great weekend!