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Hey everyone! I thought I'd write an update to let you know where I'm at and where I intend to be at this month's end.  Oh, and if you're new, the link to the hub page for our projects can be found here .

Anyone who finished the last early access build knows I'm changing locations again for the next build.  The compound took us two builds, Foggy Swamp was two, Zaofu was two, but I'm far from certain this last location will take only two builds.  Btw. technically the end of the last early access was already in a different location, but I'm not counting that one since it was incredibly limited.

Changing locations always causes the need for a lot of new stuff and thus more work. Luckily I can do some major cutting of corners since I get to borrow stuff from the slave route!  But despite that it still leaves me with a ton of stuff to draw/write/script etc etc which is making me feel like I've been lagging behind since the start of this month!  It will be the last major location shift for this route though, so I'm kinda happy about that. 

I'd still like to have something finished before the end of this month  and I *think* that might be possible, but I'm not gonna bet the farm on it. Things might roll into October before I can get anything finished and if that happens, all bets are off.  I'm also considering taking a short break in October.

My plan is to keep on going until I get the next build done(this or next month),  maybe take a short break and see whether I will or will not do something special for October. It has sort of become a tradition to do something special for Halloween(Spooky time stand-alones etc), but I might break with that tradition this year and skip it in favor of working on normal FET.

We'll see... there's still a bunch of weeks between now and then and I've always  liked getting silly(sillier?) with the characters.

Also, I've decided to not incorporate slave routes into love routes. What I'm trying to say is that if you're playing love route, the world will react to the past as if that too was the love route whether you did or did not choose that for a past book during a current save. That's not super awesome from a continuity point of view if you've been "swerving" through slave/love routes within the same save file, but it's causing me too many problems otherwise. 

When we started work on FET I insisted on the player being able to start a new game and just jump into whatever book/route the player wants... because it's  a game and I wanted to give everyone the option  to have fun and easy access to it all without punishing him by railroading him.  Story-wise however... I'm gonna railroad you (to an extend).

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If I'm not listening to music while working on FET I usually put on a movie/cartoon which I know by heart already so it won't be too distracting.  Lately I've been listening a lot to one of my absolute favorite movies and I thought I'd share it here with you.

It's a low budget comedy about a group of Dungeons&Dragon roleplayers and called "Dorkness rising".  I'm giving you the official link from the creators, which is a playlist of short segments, but there are also versions out there where all the small parts are put together. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3buuXcHOBkI&list=PLC94D9A19FF391865&index=1

I'll leave it at that for this update. 

See you next time!

Cheers! Marty