Update — 46. (Patreon)

Life is not...life-ing happily for me at the moment. I'm on the verge of getting a cold and it just isn't fun. Writing however, that's been going! Still chipping away at this new demo. 

So, with two out of five of the ros in Beyond The Game, the mc already knows them. The other three they'll end up meeting. I have been a bit conscious about the mc being introduced to so many people in chapter one (those three ros and many side characters), just so meeting new people doesn't seem so repetitive—alongside having enough choices in those moments. 

I've written up the scenes where the mc meets Javier Acevedo, E's dad and also the mc's football manager...I don't really like the scene, haha. I think it'll need editing, I can't even pinpoint what I don't like about it, I just don't—but I could be overthinking. At least it's written up and I can move on. After literally writing up two more choice sets I'll get to the point where E Acevedo is introduced, so more flirting for the mc if that's what they want. As E's a singer too, this will be the point where I write in game some (terrible, I'm sorry!) lyrics from them depending on your choices—I find this exciting, being able to so different aspects of the demo that just football. 

I originally thought that this chapter/demo release would be 40k words, but I think it's going to be a lot more than that which I'm hoping is a good thing—with the hopes that I'm able to pull off a good demo. Additionally, I have all my fingers and toes crossed that this demo will be out in November. I've already created the itch.io page for it (it's just privatised), so it's literally just waiting for me to upload the demo. Having that itch page create made me even more excited for this release. I think it looks super pretty too and it's definitely one of the reasons why writers enjoy that customisation aspect of Twine/itch.io. 

Other Patreon stuff: I apologise for not getting to my goal of 12 posts for the month. Although, I've been figuring out a schedule for November to hit that goal so I'll always keep trying to put out quality content on here. 

My plans are to still work on the demo, but also I'll be releasing the next gala POV this week from Golden. I've gone in alphabetical order so far, so I'll continue—K's drabble will be next! Alongside that, I'll, of course, release some sneak peeks of the demo too. 

Thanks for your continued support. 

WORD COUNT:

29.3k (+ 4.3k)