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Today I’ve got a little poll for you.

As I mentioned before, Chapter 13 contains a moment where you’ll be able to choose between diffrent perspectives. In the image above, you can see what that selection screen will look like.

Which of these three perspectives would you choose first?

And why does choosing first matter?

As I already mentioned, you will play all three perspectives in the same playthrough. So don’t worry, clicking one does not lock you out of the other two. Also, the perspectives themselves won’t change depending on the order you play them in. Their content stays the same no matter what order you choose.

However, there is one thing that changes: you, the player.

Because while playing these perspectives, you’ll make decisions, and those decisions are modular as well, meaning they remain consistent regardless of order. But depending on what information you already know, your choices and interpretations might feel very different.

And I think “interesting” is the right word here, because please don’t expect some insanely elaborate system like Steins;Gate, if you’ve seen the anime, you know what I mean, where suddenly, after seeing the ending, everything is recontextualized in a mind-blowing way.

It’s not that. 100%

It’s more like a small hint. A little nudge. One of those moments where you suddenly go:“Ahhh… so that’s why.”

So yeah, that’s the poll:Based purely on the image, which perspective would you play first?

Now, onto the progress update.

I have exactly ten days left before I move.I really hope I can finish everything before then. If someone asked me how good my chances are, I’d probably say 50/50. I’m making good progress, but there’s still a lot left to do.

I’m currently finishing all three perspectives, and once they’re done, that’s where the cut happens and I upload the half-chapter.

Emma’s perspective is completely finished.

Gabriel’s perspective will probably be finished tomorrow. All renders are already done, the writing is done too, I mostly just need to implement everything into the game itself and do a final polish pass: sound effects, transition effects, grammar(sometimes), stuff like that.

Hopefully I can finish it tomorrow. If not, then the day after at the latest. Either way, it’s basically done.MC’s perspective is around halfway finished.

So:Emma’s perspective done.Gabriel’s perspective basically done.MC's perspective... lots of work to do.

I mentioned earlier that I had to pause work on it for a bit. For those interested, I explained why in the previous blog post.

The MC perspective still needs the most work. In terms of length, it sits somewhere in the middle.

Emma’s perspective ended up being the longest because, as a perspective character, she honestly hasn’t had that much focus up until now. So this segment gives her a bit more room to breathe and develop.

Gabriel’s perspective is relatively short:a couple of dialogues, some story reveals, and that’s about it.

The MC perspective is medium-length, but probably the most demanding overall because it contains action scenes, a nsfw scene (pssst, don’t tell anyone) plus a few reveals, new locations, and generally a lot of new content.

And that’s also why I honestly don’t know whether I’ll manage to finish everything in time.

Usually I’m pretty good at estimating my own workload. But whenever entirely new environments, effects, or mechanics come into play, it becomes really hard for me to judge how long things will actually take.

Still, we’ll see.

I’m definitely rooting for myself here because my daily routine lately has basically been:

Wake up.get some coffein in (Yeah i rellapsed, but once that update is done, i go back, cold turkey, hardcore no coffein again.)Work.Look at the clock.“Oh shit, the whole day is gone already.”Go to sleep.

That’s genuinely been my life recently.

Honestly, I’m almost looking forward to the move at this point, simply because it’ll be a change of pace. In a weird way, I’m even treating it as a bit of a break.

Anyway, wish me luck that I can pull this off.

That’s all from me for now.

I hope you’re all doing well.Take care of yourselves.

With love.Berki

So again:

Which of these three perspectives would you choose first?