Saturday Devlog (June 29) (Patreon)

Hi everyone! Happy weekend, and I hope you're having a great one!

I'm pleased to announce that the update slated for tomorrow's release is more or less finished. At this point in time, I'm just correcting errors in the code and making edits to improve flow and grammar. Time away from AMR has definitely grown some rust on the old Choicescript muscles, but all things considered, all of the issues are pretty minor!

The update this time will focus, as you know, on Thulrum's Day of Arrival festival. One of the things I'm most happy with in the old demo was the worldbuilding and portrayal of Jiasei and Kyuhan, the Yotai city states which was featured towards the end. Knowing that, one of the goals i had with the rewrite was to inject the same level of effort into making Thulrum feel lived-in and real. This involved injecting a lot of worldbuilding elements that didn't make the cut in the original demo, but dispensing it in a way that (hopefully!) doesn't feel infodumpy. As things currently stand, I'm quite happy with the end result! And when the update drops, I hope you will be, as well. :)

The scenes did end up being too big for the wordcount to fully encompass, and so there will be branches that will be unplayable until the next update. Importantly, the variation wherein Yu did not accompany the mage at the start of the festival has not yet been included.

I contemplated the wisdom of releasing a Sneak Peek within 24 hours of the update dropping, and whether it would just be better to just keep it for later. In the end, I figured that it should be there to view for those so inclined, and so you can expect one coming up shortly after this post. It will focus on yet another element of the Day of Arrival festivities, including the (admittedly passing) mention of a character from the old demo.

That about wraps it up for this week's devlog, and as always, thank you for supporting the development of A Mage Reborn!