Saturday Devlog (March 20) (Patreon)

Happy Saturday! Hope everyone's weekend is going great, and that you're all staying healthy and safe. :)

Happy to report that progress on the next update is coming along steadily! I spent the better part of the week hunting down typos and bugs (always the most challenging part for me), and around this time yesterday I uploaded the final version of the 2.0 build. Coincidentally, yesterday marks the game's first month anniversary, and was also the day we hit 5k clicks on the COG Forum link! The stars really aligned for me yesterday, I think. :')

I also made significant progress with the 'choice-expansion' feature of the next build. The two-option choices pervading the first half of the story should be mostly done away with by the time 2.5 rolls around.

Shown choices: Charming / Reserved / Emotional / Stoic

The other major thing I accomplished this weekend was Eli's genderflip. Surprisingly difficult to hunt down all their pronouns in the code, but I'm reasonably confident I found all of them.

Kind of sad that this choice will probably spoil their return later, but c'est la vie.

Coming up next is the long-overdue guide for patrons at the Arcanist tier, which is around 75% done at the time of this writing. After that, I'll begin work on the new stat screen elements: stat explanation guide, codex on magic, and (the one I'm dreading the most) the used-spell history section. This last feature is dauntingly code-heavy, but I think it'd be a really fun one to have! I'll keep cracking at it.

After I get all of this out of the way, finally, I can begin writing the first leg of the post-resurrection arc. I mentioned on this tumblr post that I already had the section all written out, but that I had to ax most of it to make way for a better introductory setting. At this point I don't know for certain yet which parts will make the cut, but the one with the highest likelihood will be posted on the Sneak Peek feature coming later today.

Lastly, the results of the portrait poll! M!Eli is currently leading with 6/6 votes (damn, y'all really like the guy, huh), followed by Leon at 5 votes, and Ilya at 3 votes. Their portraits should be completed within the month; the artist is currently working on M!Eli and I feel reasonably confident that I can show him off in just a few days. Half-body shots of the illustrations will be available on tumblr and COG Forum (once I get promoted to Member tier and can post images lol), while the full-body shots will be a Patreon exclusive.

Thank you for following the development of A Mage Reborn!