Escape the Citizen Factory: Now with Actual Escape! (Patreon)

Okay, it's done.  Done done done, all done except for the inevitable bug squashing.

Escape the Citizen Factory! is content-complete.  With the addition of the showroom wing of the factory, you can finally make it to the flyer and escape the citizen factory.  Hooray!

As is the way of things, working on it again let me see some of the promise and interest that inspired me to start the project in the first place.  In the end, I'm pretty happy to have put the work in on this one.  It's not a 'big' game, but it's a completed game, and I like having those to point to.

And, going back into it after working in XenoFucker for so long, I can at the very least say that Escape was a worthwhile learning experience if nothing else.  There's a lot in that architecture that I just would not do again!

As for the specifics:

I didn't remove the traitor so much as reduce its importance.  I do really like the existing Bad Ends, which rely on the traitor plot elements.  The ~placeholder~ passages for what was going to be an elaborate interaction minigame I have replaced with some innocuous boilerplate text.  In retrospect, you're just not going to see these passages very often, so they don't need to be as deep and complex as I had envisioned them.

There are seven new rooms (although there's nothing to do, really, in North Hall; oh well).  These involve gogo dancer pillars, sex toys, and a bit of a trick to avoid those Bad Ends that I didn't want to axe.

And there is of course a new Epilogue for actually escaping.  If you get there, you'll see your "score" which is really just a measure of how transformed your team was in the process of escaping.  While a perfect score is theoretically possible, it would require a bunch of really lucky die rolls.  The escape epilogue shifts a bit depending on your final score, so there is a little range in how bittersweet your escape is in your slightly- or massively-transformed bodies.

But the big takeaway is: this project can be shelved (aside from bug splatting; as always, please report bugs you encounter), allowing me to focus more attention on XenoFucker, Teayeph, and maybe even Pixiespawn.

Thanks, pervs!

— Dex