Progress Report (Patreon)

Aaah! Another week has passed already? What's happening? *panics*

My primary focus has been on outlining the story paths through this update. There are tons of them, but what I realized as I mapped them out was that there was very little choice this time around. The way I had set it up, this update would feel quite linear because all the important decisions have been made before this point. I have tried to look at ways to spice that up, but I don't want to go too far. The worst-case scenario would be introducing "gotchas" into the mix. That is a branching situation in which you are given insufficient information to make an informed choice, and yet the wrong choice punishes you. That's a big no-no in my book, but it also means that any choice added to the game needs to be very carefully thought out.

In addition to that, I have been setting up one of the two major new environments in this update. You'll spend the most critical parts of version 0.32 in locations we haven't really seen before, at least according to the current plan (which could change). That means preparing sets, something I luckily don't have to do often. One of those two environments is a bedroom, though, and I'm really starting to run out of those recently. On the other hand, that's the environment I have made sure to build already this week, so that problem is solved.

I suspect progress is going to be very fast once I get past this preparation stage. Still, every puzzle piece needs to be carefully prepared before I can solve the puzzle itself. There's no rushing this.

Until next time!