Game, set, match! (Patreon)

Hey all!   First off, here's the link to the hub post which contains links to older projects etc.

Okay, it's time to talk about what I've been doing so far and what you can expect to happen this month. I'm writing this post today, because I finished setting up the bare minimum for the last chapter. To explain for anyone new,  FET consists out of four books, and each book has a  slave and love route. I'm currently working on the final chapter which will end the overarching story for both the slave and love route in one build.

Writing the last chapter is difficult in a very practical and a less practical way. I've been going through the older routes and finding the variables(flags) to differentiate between what you've done in the past during the four books. I used to have a list of those, but I switched pc's in between developing FET and that list got sort of lost. No problem, just means I need to do some digging in the game scripts, which is easy enough.

I've found I didn't always sets proper flags which means the game can't always remember what you did. I've only found one instance of that so far and all it would do in the final chapter is add or leave out a sentence, so nothing major. Anyway, making certain the last chapter remains consistent with earlier choices is slowing me down a lot.

I always found it very important for a player to just be able and start playing whatever book he wanted to without having to have finish the earlier ones first. That means you can start a new game and immediately hop into book 4. That also means I need to pick a standard reaction in the last chapter if you never even played books 1, 2 or 3...   then there's the fact time travel has the added difficulty I can't take choices into account during the early books which you make in the last chapter. 

What I'm trying to say is... I'm spending a lot of my time on solving this "puzzle" without leaving in too many weird inconsistencies  : ) 

While digging for older variables I've also come across some older bugs which I'm fixing. Mostly stuff where I tried to tidy up the file structure of FET and a few bugs popped up because of that. Nothing I can't fix and I'm still happy I structured things slightly better at the time.

Anyway, I'm not far along with the last chapter yet. I finished two scenes... which is practically speaking just one, because if you choose one, you won't get to see the other... and a very "big strokes" setup of the build which is pretty much lacking everything, but can still be played till the end. I feel like a lifelong nudist who just bought a wardrobe from Ikea. 

Doesn't mean I don't want to try and finish the final chapter this month though. Just that you shouldn't put any bets on whether I actually manage to!

-Sorry Jinora!  I'm too busy for that right now!-

Anyway, I expect to be pretty busy the next couple of weeks so if I'm tardy answering messages and such, please don't be too upset. I'll get to you eventually : ) !