Hey, everyone!
So after the truly awful news of last week, I’ve done a bit of a rebound recovery. I’m nowhere near “over” the loss of my little doggo, but I’m not crippled by the sadness, anymore. At least not at the moment.
I came to a kind of epiphany in regards to how designing this chapter goes — because of how non-linear it is, I can’t send it to any testers until I’ve finished the whole thing. Previously, I would start testing about halfway through making the chapter, then release more to the testers a scene at a time as I finished them. Since I can’t do it that way, I don’t have to work on the scenes in any particular order. In fact, I can write whichever scene I’m in the mood for at the time, and render something when my brainpower is too drained to write. That’s why it looks like I’m now writing a bunch of shit at once! But if you look at the jump in the “coding” percentage, you can see this has paid off a bit.
I’ve also done some scene rearranging. Originally the events of the days were all completely based on player choices (even if they didn’t realize it), but there were two scenes that would only make sense on certain days. I cemented them into their time slots, which also means I thankfully have some less coding to worry about on those two.
Now there’s something else I’ve put into the game as well — a relationship “walkthrough”. I’ve said, so so many times, that the relationship aspect of Mythos is secondary, and that the romance and sex is all optional. I tried to make it very clear when you were making a decision that would mean you end up naked with a girl or not. However, for some, that may not be blatant enough. Thus, now whenever there’s a choice that will begin (or end) a relationship with a girl, it will be labeled as such. Like if you agree to a relationship with Tara, that choice will be labeled “Tara Path”. If you dump her later (you monster), that choice will be labeled “End Tara Path”. I will probably put an option in the settings to have this as a toggle, for people who… I guess wanna be surprised with booty?
There will not be any kind of walkthrough created (by me, at least) with regards to the investigative part of the story. You’re on your own with that one!
And that’s all for this week! I hope y’all have a good weekend!
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Story
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Coding
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Renders
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Music
Stuff completed:
- Complete Side Image Re-Revamp (163 images)
- Story Flow Chart
- UI Improvements
- Scene: Apologies to the Serling Estate
- Scene: A Little Help from my Friends
- Scene: Yeah, About That…
- Scene: It Goes to 11
- Scene: Shantay, You Stay
- Scene: Your Call is Very Important to Us
- Creation of New Characters
- New Mythos Logo (commissioned)
Stuff in progress:
- Learning After Effects (Maybe?)
- Scene: Fuck the Police (Rendering)
- Scene: Ah, My Goddess! (Writing)
- Scene: Touched by an Angel (Writing)
- Scene: Magic, the Gathering (Writing)
- Scene: Grumpy Old Men (Writing)
- Scene: Werther’s Original (Writing)
- New Music Tracks (4/5)
Stuff to do:
- Scene: Ventrilo Harassment
- Scene: It’s Been Revoked
- Scene: Who Ya Gonna Call?
- Scene: Cry Little Sister
- Scene: Fancy
- Scene: The Lyin’ Bitch and her Wardrobe
- Scene: My Immortal
- Sex Animations (Simplified?)
- Chapter Three Title Screen
- New Opening Title Sequence
- Mental and Emotional Recovery (30%)
Keep the Legends Alive!
– Nine