life is a hailstorm and i am a car in an uncovered driveway. (Patreon)

ok, it's taken a consistent trickle of effort over the last couple weeks, but we have finished all of our character endings as of today! like with the quests, i Cannot talk much about them for obvious reasons, but they exist. they also haven't been tested. and aren't playable. but uh. look, that's the easy part, okay?

instead, let's talk about some other stuff that's going on. specifically, testing! we are so not ready to test.  well, i in particular am emotionally not ready to test. i'm like, still over here making new content, and i have to fix bugs too???? life is a hailstorm and i am a car in an uncovered driveway.  ah, that can be the post title.

i'm being dramatic because i'm full of fear but it really hasn't been that bad! so cass is doing the testing, which means this has kind of become a pre-supervised supervised testing run, where i can also lean on cass's shoulder and hug her and cry when things break. she also can fix things, which is nice! very helpful, thank you cass ily. she also has a critical eye for particularly annoying bits. cass testing early is going to be good for everyone who comes after her.

some highlights:

• the first major fight of the postgame slapping her already (mind you, she made these fights.)
• goddamn it why are there like nine bugs in the first quest
• the AI has one pokemon left , and she has two PP left to kill it with. it went for a double protect and got it, costing her the win.
• fixed a bug where she gained exactly 7903.0000000000000018 exp, and not a point more.
• fixed a bug where she walked up to moltres and it promptly shoved its ass in her face
• getting swept by a jumpluff
• fixed a bug where a backwards negative made the AI very likely to switch on the first turn it sent a pokemon out, rather than very unlikely. 
• after some feedback, totally changed one puzzle and made several others skippable. 
• fixed several bugs where whiting out broke the game gdi i hate those !!!!!!!
• several other ai bugs along the way wait i forgot to be taking notes shit damn it oops uhhh quick post something funny instead

our "who the fuck made these teams" comment counter is up to 8. 

i've been keeping track of her playtime so far to start getting an estimate, and she's up to around 15h so far, in tier 3 of 8. this includes time spent repeating fights, as well discussing and fixing bugs, but we've also skipped through a couple of quick bits so it's hard to say how accurate that will be. 

depending on how it goes, we'll probably have one or two more future updates about the testing. in the mean time, i'll continue trying to clean all of my Everything up. there's so much everything. ah, but it's getting smaller isn't it? that's always nice.