January 26 Update (Patreon)

It's been a while since we've done an update that was just focused on a single aspect of development. Since one of the things I did last week is suited to that, we'll do it.

Yhilin has updated less frequently than some other locations for a single reason: the fact that the player can control the major change of reaching the "Final Yhilin" state. Doing a lot of minor updates unrelated to the player's progress would multiply my work, so there have been fewer. I know for all the optimizers that means it's been unchanged, but I think this works best overall.

However, that doesn't mean Yhilin will remain static through the end of the game. Now that we've entered Chapter 5, if your Yhilin was already in "Final" state, it will receive an update. New dialogue for almost all NPCs, some cute little changes, and so on. Call it Final+1. In the postgame, it will update again to Final+2. If you can't finalize Yhilin until Chapter 5, your postgame scene will be Final+1. Hopefully this way all players get an updating experience regardless of when they make the change.

Since I'm already going around making all those changes, I've added a fair amount of the postgame dialogue controlled by the same variable. This is content that only those decrypting the game will see for a long time (nothing spoilery, don't worry), but it will save work down the road when I create the postgame.

Unrelated to this post, I participated in a themed ebook sale. My books along with a whole set of other fantasy titles are all free or on sale right now. You can find them all linked from this post along with synopses:

https://old.reddit.com/r/ProgressionFantasy/comments/esahmc/progression_fantasy_super_sale/ 

If you were waiting on a sale for my books, or if you're interested in any of the others, now is a good time to pick them up!