Writer's Blog: I'm too tired to think up a clever title, but Chapter 8 2.0 is UP. (Patreon)
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Edit: The bug that prevented people from finishing the chapter is now fixed. Looks like the "return" command got left out when I updated the code (this took me way to long to figure out). Long story short--it works now!
I am bone weary (we ran out of caffeine in the house) and thus will attempt to be somewhat succinct, but the good news is that I finally managed to take my constantly tweaking hands off of Chapter 8! The bad news (which could be good, depending on your perspective?) is that Chapter 9 is being held up because I’m making yet more changes to Hope’s phone call in order to incorporate more details about her shared past with Rosy (details that I added to the training scene but then decided to move). I still want to get Chapter 9 up by the end of June, though.
Overall, I’m really trying to add in as much foreshadowing about . . . things . . . as possible. If it ends up being too much, I can always cut back, but better too much than too little! I really want readers to be able to guess Mind Blind’s mysteries, or at least go “Ohhhhhh that makes such much sense.”
What’s New This Update:
1) The ability to specify whether or not Button is an artist (thanks to a brilliant Goya suggestion!)
2) Glitch’s dialogue is now twelve percent more in character (for better and for worse)
3) Ace romance implementation for the training scenes
4) Option to switch what you call Rosy if Button refers to them as “Kim”
5) Option to attempt to switch what you call Rosy if Button refers to them as “Ambrose/Ambrosia”
6) Snickly tweaks (I initially added a scene where Button teases Sally and Nick, but then moved it because I felt the scene fit better happening when Sally helps Button prep for dinner with Kenzie)
7) More dialogue options in general, including the potential for Button to trash talk Sally’s matchmaking skills and bemoan their dating history
8) Scenery got a glow up and hopefully things are now clearer
9) More hints pointing to the bomber’s true identity (including the implementation of a new hint counter)
10) Sally’s vision about Glitch got redone yet again, and there’s a few more early chapter changes scattered throughout
11) Redone formatting for Podium (I went back and forth on between italics and bold for hours, and am still not fully convinced by my final choice)
12) You can now get back lost feelings for Gray or begin to crush on him without a history of pining like a evergreen
13) Fixed indenting so Nick no longer cackles and giggles in the same breath
14) A lot stuff more that I can’t currently remember? I spent a lot of time reworking this chapter and honestly don’t recall the first things I changed at the moment—my brain is fried. But Chapter 8 is 20% longer now, so there’s quite a bit which was added.
Link To The Rewrite: https://dashingdon.com/play/wildelight/mind-blind-20/mygame/
Example Snippet of New Material:
“A love story for the ages,” Sally comments dryly. “An internet troll lures an unsuspecting villager into the depths of his cave.”
“Kent is hardly a troll,” you say, glancing discretely at his profile as he talks to Glitch.
Sally smirks. “Oh, I’m aware exactly how you classify Kent.” She lowers her voice. “Your crush on him is more obvious than Nicholas’s thing for Dean Branham during his first year at Aeon.”
Inside your head, Nick groans. I really wish she’d forget about that.