12/12 Patreon Devlog (Patreon)

Hi everyone!

Time for.....yet another rambly Patreon devlog!

Summary:

• Have gone through a few of Caleb's corrections (not many though.)
• Wrote Magnus Chapter Two
• Start Magnus Chapter Three
• Received two new BGs

The Ramble:

So - this week, testers have been going through Caleb's route finding errors. There have been a few major issues (a game breaking bug due to an undeclared variable, for instance) but mostly just the usual typos and such.

I haven't really gone through the list of issues beyond to note when someone is pointing out a UK spelling as wrong. LoL

I'll go through those at another date.

I think I settled on maybe releasing an official update to the demo around the end of the month - as a sort of holiday surprise for everyone. I think that'll be fun. (This update will essentially just be the rest of the "common route."

I finished Magnus' second chapter and have gotten started on chapter three. As usual, the first two chapters are basically getting Morgan settled, and chapter three is where the plot sloooowly begins to get started. The set up of this route is a little different than the other two Endgame routes in which Morgan starts training right away. In this one, Morgan had a longer stay in the infirmary and did more damage to her brain due to psi-fatigue. So her training is a bit more delayed. (This causes some issues later on, of course).

There's obviously justification in the plot for this variation but from a practical standpoint, it's just to avoid having all three of the "original six" Endgame LIs from having similar route beginnings. It just lets me do things a little differently.

Having Magnus get to know Morgan earlier on lets me show a slightly different side to him than we see in other routes, which is fun. Especially given how bratty he is in Caleb's route. LoL

I got myself below that threshold I mentioned last time….

Less than 200,000 words left to meet our goal of 710,000 words. Less than 30% left as well. It's always funny to me how sometimes the numbers that make me most happy are the ones counting down instead of the ones counting up.

It's wonderful to see the word count at 515,000, but somehow, knowing I have less than 200,000 left is more helpful. LoL

That countdown to completion makes me so happy. When it drops below 100,000...I will know I'm nearly there! (I should pause here to say that I expect to go past the goal by just a little bit based on the current numbers. But the actual in-game word count probably will be closer to 685k like Changeling's word count.)

Finally, we also got more BG artwork. Since our artists are hive-minding themselves onto similar schedules it may mean that going forward we have repeats of weeks without artwork to look at. LoL.

We are sloooowly getting the last of our BGs though. Slowly. You can see the ones we received this week below.

Sneak Peeks and Previews:

Space station with greenery? Yup! Got that. (and the aptly named…."Shop" LoL. I always love the generic names of places in BG art." This BG is replacing one we got from someone else - one that just wasn't quite up to par. And it looks so amazing! I love it.

Giger-esque alien ruins? CHECK. Love this BG so much! Spoooooooky!

Upcoming Week:

Writing purgatory continues…

I'll just be plugging away at Magnus' route for a while….then plugging away at Lance's route. LoL

Nothing has changed in this regard.

I might go through the Caleb corrections. Maybe. LoL