Hey, y’all! 

A productive week for me, as I’ve completely completed two scenes! I used the holiday on Monday to code my non-existant ass off, and I’m happy with the result.

I did add a new “feature”, though I think that’s probably stretching a bit. I kinda struggled with how to handle characters texting, visually speaking. I wanted to avoid using images (like with Shield of Clemency’s Discord conversation in Chapter One), but using the regular dialog box felt weird too, since the character’s head was still there. It somehow looked even weirder if the head wasn’t there. So I came up with this:

So this way I can keep some image of the character with the text and preserve their “colour identity” (the association of characters and their colours is important to me), while also making it pretty obvious the character isn’t there. When there’s a voice phone call taking place, however, I will use the standard emoting side images — I think you can usually “hear” someone’s expression through the phone, and there’s really more texting than phone calls in the game, anyway. The way it should be. I hate phone calls so much…

But speaking of phone calls, the MC makes a call to Tara but someone else picks up the phone!!! Who is this mysterious stranger?!

Maybe she’s a visitor from somewhere else? Who knows? She’ll probably Come Home soon enough.

Since I took a week of vacation, that’s a week that my work wasn’t being done at my mortal job, because why would a company hire enough people to cover employee absences? That’s crazy talk. As such, I was too busy to write “The Ascent of Hatshepsut” this week, like I had hoped to. As I may have mentioned, the short stories are mostly written while I’m on the clock, so as not to cut into my Mythos production time. Hopefully I’ll get that story out next week — it should be a fun glimpse into a supernatural type in Mythos that hasn’t really had much detail done on them, yet. 

Chapter Three General Progress:

• Side Image Re-Revamp 163 images – COMPLETE!
• Story Flow Chart – COMPLETE!
• UI Improvements – COMPLETE!
• New Music Tracks
  • As Above, So Below – COMPLETE!
  • Geraldine – COMPLETE!
  • Seventy-Five Year Trauma – COMPLETE!
  • Modred’s Legacy – COMPLETE!
  • Codito Ergo Sum – COMPLETE!
  • The Dark Depths of Despair in my Blackened Soul (I’m Dead) – In progress
  • Herja’s Elegy
  • ???
• Learning After Effects – In Progress
• Introduction Scene by Nine – COMPLETE!
• Creation of New Characters – COMPLETE!
• New Mythos Logo (commissioned) – COMPLETE!
• Sex Animations
• Chapter Three Title Screen
• Organization of Daz Assets – COMPLETE!
• Achievements (0/4)
• New Opening Title Sequence – In Progress (Storyboarding)

Chapter Three Scene Progress:

• Scene: Apologies to the Serling Estate – COMPLETE!
• Scene: A Little Help from my Friends – COMPLETE!
• Scene: Yeah, About That… – COMPLETE!
• Scene: It Goes to 11 – COMPLETE!
• Scene: Shantay, You Stay – COMPLETE!
• Scene: Your Call is Very Important to Us – COMPLETE!
• Scene: Reach Out and Touch Someone – COMPLETE!
• Scene: Fancy – COMPLETE!
• Scene: The Lyin’ Bitch and her Wardrobe – COMPLETE!
• Scene: Fuck the Police
  • Writing – COMPLETE!
  • Coding – In Progress
• Scene: Ah, My Goddess!
  • Writing – COMPLETE!
  • Renders – In Progress
• Scene: Touched by an Angel
  • Writing – In Progress
  • Renders – In Progress
• Scene: Magic, the Gathering
  • Writing – COMPLETE!
  • Renders – In Progress
• Scene: Grumpy Old Men
  • Writing – In Progress
  • Renders – In Progress
• Scene: Werther’s Original
  • Writing – In Progress
  • Renders – In Progress
• Scene: Ventrilo Harassment
• Scene: It’s Been Revoked
• Scene: Who Ya Gonna Call?
  • Writing – COMPLETE!
• Scene: Cry Little Sister
  • Writing – COMPLETE!
  • Coding – In Progress
• Scene: My Immortal
  • Writing – COMPLETE!
• Temperature – Too Damn High!

Keep the Legends Alive!

– Nine