DAY08.SCENE03 & DAY08.SCENE04 (Patreon)

Once again, this was a big one (note: I decided to split this up into two scenes after writing this dev blog) with many things happening on two fronts—first, between the boy and Sarah, and secondly, between the boy and girl.

On the first front, I hope the scene with Sarah was exciting. I tried to show both the excitement of new love between two youths, the eagerness as well as the hesitation that they'll naturally feel.I don't want to move too fast with the sexual progression between the two, and I think I'm currently on a good pace—they've already known each other for a long time, they're young and excited, so something was bound to happen. I hope the current pace is enjoyable and believable.

On the second front, I struggled even more than on the first front. I wanted to introduce a scene where I showed the girl reflecting on the past and the relationship between the boy and girl, not only telling you about it.I decided to do this through the reading of an essay written by the girl. It was quite hard to make this (hopefully) somewhat enjoyable to read and coherent—it couldn't be too short because then the emotional bit would feel out of place, in my opinion. It also can't be too long, of course, so I had to somehow summarize while at the same time keeping the prose interesting and still keep it coherent.

I'm not sure how successful I have been. I'll need to come back to this scene later, and give it another read; I've already done a lot of editing (and I truly mean a lot) to arrive at its current state, if it doesn't work out in the end, that'd be pretty sad since I'd have wasted so much time.

The conversation between the boy and girl is a bit of a rehash of an earlier conversation; this again, is intentional, because I believe it's normal for the boy to have some doubts and also for the girl to still feel conflicted and upset about her relationship with the landlords.I hope the conversation is still interesting/emotionally moving despite having some similarity to a previous scene.

These two scenes now complete the rest of the content for the next update, v0.9.8, the update will be posted in a couple of days. Look forward to it!