Chapter 12 Status Report (9) (Patreon)

Hi everyone! The release cycle for Chapter 12.2 has just wrapped up, and the road to 12.3 continues.

During this last week I've been fixing and polishing the latest release (I just re-uploaded it with the final bug and grammar fixes, you can get it here) and making progress on the last part of this chapter, writing and producing the new drawings I need.

Writing is the most challenging, especially when there's a scene where a bunch of characters interact at the same time. Their relationships exist in a wide variety of interlocking states, and the dialogue and reactions have to make sense within those. Also, the flow of the scene hast to go together, so finding the way to integrate divergent conversations and inner monologues so the scene can continue seamlessly is quite tricky. This is especially true when 4 or 5 characters share a scene, which often times makes the most simple situations the most difficult to write and structure. Also, if you've played this last update, you know tensions are high in many plotlines, so it's important to keep that in mind when writing how a character reacts to certain things, or which choices the player is given access to.

However, I feel I'm making good progress, switching between tasks and trying to be consistent. When I'm done with the drawings, I already have quite a few waiting to be given the final pass, and I will get on with those as I continue writing.

I'll keep you posted on the progress!