29/11 Patreon Devlog (Patreon)

Hi everyone! Sorry this update is late. I have really been losing track of what day it is. @_@

I think my brain is just broken. LoL

LoL

Summary:

• Ended up rewriting Jack ch. 13. For reasons.
• Received some new BG sketches! 8D (and one completed BG + a new variation)
• Went through to make all the corrections to Caissa's route that were waiting on me. (I think that this was this week? It's blurring together. ;A;)
• Coded BGs into Caleb's route.
• Worked on reworking the Magnus synopsis

The Ramble:

So even though I did reach the point of considering Jack's route completed, I also went back and rewrote one of his chapters. LoL. Sometimes that happens.

I was just unsatisfied enough I couldn't move on until I fixed it up a bit.

But now his route is DONE. >=V (for now. I still have to edit it later).

I have been re-working Magnus' overall synopsis and shrinking his plot a bit as I restructure his route plans. Because Brenin, who wasn't supposed to appear in Jack's route at all, ended up playing a major role in it…

I've decided to reduce (possibly completely remove) his role in Maggie's route. I'm really trying to keep the routes balanced between "large" plots and small plots. Jack had a much larger plot than intended, so I am going to try to reduce the plot in Magnus' route to balance it out. I want at least one more route focused more on Endgame as an organisation. And I only have two Endgame characters left (Maggie and Yuu). Yuu's route, as of now, is planned to be more focused on New Terra. So….yeah!

In terms of other stuff there's really not that much to say. There were a lot of typo corrections to be made in Caissa's route - they've been sitting there for a couple of weeks, so I finally went through and fixed them all.

And I've been coding BGs into Caleb's route here and there. In some cases I had to pause to make new variations or just resize and crop and get the BG declared so it could be used in the game.

So yeah, that's kind of it, I guess. Reworking Maggie's plot takes some time because my route synopses involve a scene by scene breakdown of each chapter through the route. It's not just a broad summary. I try to go through each chapter to figure out what's going to happen so I have a clear roadmap of what I'm going to be doing. The hope is that it will help me write the route faster.

If I follow it. (I did not follow it in Jack's case. LoL)

I really want to get back on track with my planning because it really does help the route go by much faster and easier. So I'm going to take my time to plan this route out properly. *determined*

Sneak Peeks and Previews:

So I don't think I showed this BG off last time…..so here it is. A corridor in the lower decks of New Terra. (I believe I showed it off on the server).

I really like the inclusion of plants growing through the walls. I just think it makes these BGs more interesting and unexpected since you don't expect that sort of thing on a space station. 

These make me really excited to work on Yuu's route and explore this part of setting more.

And a sketch of another area in the lower decks.

We have one more BG sketch I could show off but I kind of want to wait until it's complete. OWO

But I also want to show it off. 

IM TORN. LoL

*isn't going to show it yet*

Upcoming Week:

This coming week, I'll definitely be working on Maggie's synopsis and getting his route ready to be focused on. I'm sure I'll try to quickly finish up coding the BGs in Caleb's route as well. I'm nearly done anyway. The only reason I'm not done already is that I had to stop and prep some BGs that I hadn't gotten ready to put in the game yet.

Otherwise, just waiting for more BGs to come in.

So yeah. OWO

More writing purgatory. LoL!

But I'm really glad to be moving to a new route finally. @_@

See you guys next time!