v.0.32 Progress report (I) (Patreon)

Did you think you'd be spared from the progress report just because it's only been a week since the update was released? Or because it's summer?

Wrong! I don’t like going to the beach, so sorry but not sorry.

It’s been a “fun” week as far as development goes. The first thing was to figure out which scenes will be included in the next update. You know how I work: There were several key scenes that were definitely going to happen, but I had to tie them together somehow, and sometimes defining those scenes can be tricky (and it’s never set in stone). I’ve mapped out the skeleton of 20 scenes. I really need to stop being so ambitious.

Next, I found a bug that only happens when players are playing a specific version of the game and a particular girl is pregnant. Fix it, compile, upload the new files… You know the drill.

After that, I went into a creative trance. I wrote three scenes one after another in a couple of days. They were the kind of scenes that were going to happen no matter what. I knew one of them was going to be medium to long. I was right (2,317 words). The other two were supposed to be short. This time, I was the one who got it wrong, and they turned out to be medium-length scenes (1,948 and 1,059 words).

The 1,948-word one was going to have a mini-game involving choices and economics. Something like, “With the resources you have, you must choose which of your promises you will fulfill.” I think it’s one of the stupidest ideas I’ve had in over four years of development. It was incredibly boring and made no sense from a gameplay or story perspective!! So, I’ve changed the approach (which is why the scene has gotten longer). Now you’ll still have to make a decision, but it’s much more logical.

Oh, and I rendered the 2,317-word scene and the 1,059-word scene (106 and 83 renders, respectively).

Is that all? Nope! Based on the feedback about text that could be improved (thanks to everyone for that), I’ve changed some of those texts and done the translations into French, German, and Portuguese (Brazilian). Time to compile, upload, and publish again. I hope to have it ready by tomorrow.

Now, that really is all.

TL;DR: v.0.32 has 5,323 words across three scenes and 189 renders (two scenes rendered). The French, German, and Brazilian Portuguese translations for v.0.31 are ready, and I’ll try to update the files tomorrow.