Progress Report (Patreon)

February, the second month of the year.

And so we meet once again. This week went perfectly! I was able to work on the Rose almost every weekday, and so the Word pages went flying. I just finished working for today, and I'm 39 pages from being done!!!!!!

This last stretch is one full of variation based on relationships and choices, so it takes a little bit longer to code — I have to keep breaking sentences and paragraphs into *if statements, which, in turn, makes me have to test the game a lot more times to make sure it's all correct. You'd be amazed at how many times our mind does the most basic errors.

The amount of times I found through testing that I put a false statement when it should be true or vice versa is almost embarrassing. It's even worse when dealing with numbers; those pesky < > signs are the bane of my existence! 😄

In any case, it's going well. The editing part has, honestly, been the most satisfying so far. I've shaved off around 6k unnecessary words and choices. It's also been really fun to read passages that I had forgotten I had written — this month's Sneak Peek will probably be a big one; I keep taking screenshots! Look at my folder xD

I had to delete a route of about 1k words that I realized was impossible to reach. There were simply no prior choices that allowed you to get to those conditions. It was sad because, one, my past self wrote what turned out to be useless, and two, I really liked it. It had some cute Alessa friendship moments, but alas. It was an error on my part that, hopefully, won't happen again.

Other than that, I have a small list of things to do once I'm done coding the chapter. They're as follows:

• Arrange Relationships.
• Arrange Character Profiles.
• Arrange Appearance.
• Put the Origin items on the Inventory page — bear tooth if applicable.
• Write Burden_Romance (!!!!!!!)
• Put achievements in the Prologue and Chapter One.

So, the goal for next week? Finish coding the chapter, of course, and be at least halfway down the list. I'm excited to set up the new relationship texts since those are always fun to write. For now, they shouldn't be very different from the ones you get at the end of Book One, but I still want to put some small differences here and there. And also set the skeleton code for changes coming in the upcoming chapters. 👀

And that's it! I hope this last week was kind to you. May the weekend be like a calm pond where once you dip your toes in, you discover that the water is warm and clear, and it feels like a hug against your skin.

This last week was relatively quiet, but I have some fun posts planned for the following ones. See you all there!!!!!! ♡