Roll the Dice v0.2.0 check in 17/09/2020 (Patreon)

Good Morning, Good Afternoon, or Good Evening, wherever you are!

This is a post to summarize the recent poll and give you a brief (hopefully) update to what I'm up to! As promissed I'm finally done with my master's thesis, which I have successfully defended and I'm happy to close that chapter. That means I now have a lot more time and mental capacity to work on the actual game.

Over the  last two weeks I have been working hard to bring my vision to life, and give you an epic update that will just about double the size of the game. During the recent poll you all voted to keep 0.2.0 as one update, which is great news because that also relaxes the timeline on some of the system updates, so they won't be holding up the individual releases.

WRITING:
Starting from the top, a few passages needed retouching in terms of story. As of now I have revisited EVERY SINGLE PASSAGE that's already in the game, to replace the static image of Tali with the appropriate emotes. Sooer or later the IRL passages will get the same treatment for Tali, and all other core team members will likely get that upgrade, hopefully for the 0.2.0 release or one of it's minor updates.

I have removed the previous end of content screen and created the bit of story that follows, up to where the player gets the chance to follow one of 4 major routes in 0.2.0 update. I know what you're thinking now, oh wow, 4 routes, fancy NOPE THAT AIN'T ALL, every one of the major routes will have minor diverging routes in it, where you as the player will get choices or consequences of choices you've made previously. I've already started work on one of those major routes.

SYSTEM:
There are few systems in the game that need upgrading. Our lovely Gocti is working on upgrading the Battle System to include new animated arts for the main cast, and updated UI. After that hopefully he's going to handhold me through Inventory Upgrade as I'm slowly having to learn JS :D Meanwhile I have revisited all old passages to bring them up to speed in terms of good code editing practices. There are two more minor upgrades I'm looking to introduce, but I don't want to spoil it :)

NEW ART:
Depending on how long it takes to arrive, 0.2.X updates will introduce a lot of new art to the game. Some of it is already done, some is in progress, some is pending, but everything critical to the update is already finished, the new stuff is just a bonus and can easily be released later as a minor update.

This is by far the largest project I have ever worked on, and I thank you for the continuous support. The money that is being donated through Patreon helps me to make more commissions with Nightingale and Greko in the meantime, to ultimately improve the game!

Hope to hear from you guys about all this, and as always, I'm available to answer any questions!
Love you all!
OhMeGa