Supporter dev-log #6 (Patreon)

Hey folks,

It's dev-log time!

We hit a couple of milestones over the course of this last week. Over 100 paid subs and breaking 500 members on Patreon has been a massive boost to my confidence, I'm going to go out on a limb and say it seems quite a lot of you like the game, which is ace!

Now onto Chapter 4, I can't say too much as I'm aware those on the fan tier haven't had a chance to play Chapter 3 and I don't intend to spoil anything. We're also too early in the build for me to share any preview images so that'll need to wait until dev-log number 7.

What I can tell you is that I am currently implementing the NTS route into the game and oh boy, did I write a lot for this chapter. As this is a route that is all about choice and Kenji having the most agency, I've put lots of choices into this chapter, nothing that wildly skews the story into another direction but some that will affect the type of content you'll get in that route going forward. To make those choices feel weighted, in this update you get very different scenes depending on the options you choose and oh boy... those scenes are hot, you're in for a good time whichever way you choose to go.

That probably means that this chapter will add the most content to the game yet, which leads me onto some of the other stuff I want to discuss. I know a few of you have raised questions about a walkthrough/flow chart and this is something I would love to work on but currently I just don't have the time to devote to it. In an ideal world Creme could make it but she's snowed under with her full-time job as well. This is also the same issue I have with implementing a CG gallery. You'll get one, it is coming, but it's surprisingly time-consuming to make and just not a top priority for me at the minute. So basically, these things will come as I work on them in the background, but I can't say when. I hope you can understand.

Finally, some things I have been able to fix at least for the PC/Mac versions of the game is the text box! (I will do it for Android it just takes a bit more coding.)

A lot of you mentioned it was annoying or you needed a way to turn the opacity down, so I've added a slider that does just that! I also gave the text a drop shadow so in theory you don't need to have the text box at all, just turn the slider to zero and POOF! It's gone!

Here's some examples of the text, I can personally read it fine so would appreciate some feedback on if the text is easily legible or not. Small caveat, these screen grabs are not as clear as the game is and you could always turn the opacity up a little to make text easier to read.

I'll be adding this to the fan build for Chapter 3 so it might be worth seeing how it looks then and then getting back to me. I'll also continue with video compression so expect the fan release to be a little smaller in file size.

Well I think that's about all from me, as always feel free to ask me anything (within reason) on Discord, the comments or on the group chat in Patreon. I'm always keen to talk about the game!

For those on the Fan Tier, you'll get to play Chapter 3 real soon, May 9th, I promise it's worth the wait, you won't be disappointed.

Bye for now!

~Creamy