Weekly Update/Preview July 24-31 (Patreon)

Hello again. Update soonish, but I'm still making another one of these things. So last week I mentioned feeling slow on content production and seeing how I feel next week. Now we are here in next week and I feel... Not great.

Update will be this week still. Almost certainly not tomorrow, and maybe not even the day after. The mechanic that I've added feels... Pretty undercooked without any content to go along with it, so I probably need some more time to bulk it out even if it's just a little bit. It's unfortunate that writing is definitely the longest part of the process for making the game in general, but I guess that's been the case for a long while now.

Anyway yeah. Some time this week, and probably before friday at the latest, since I'll have to be out doing a thing on saturday and I don't want bug reports going off a bunch when I'm not around to respond or do anything about them. I mean ideally there would be no bug reports because there were no bugs but...

TWEETS

Just that easy

This is basically the mechanic being added, though from what I've seen people's expectations aren't exactly my plan for what it does. Some people have been thinking it will be a way to view non-canon/backstory scenes. I suppose that could be the case if I wanted to do it that way, although I've never really liked dreams being used that way narratively. 

In some ways, I suppose having it say "dream" in the first place is kind of misleading, since dreams are from the subconscious and are often nonsensical and that's not really the case here in this mechanic, but I guess it's fine. We'll see how people feel about it when it's a thing in any case.

Nice view

I had to go back and check if this was in the image dump preview post from quite a while ago and it turns out it wasn't (also I still haven't used all of those images hahahaaaa). This one was actually made a while ago for a more general use case of a female inquisitor Lucette sex scene, but it's being repurposed here. Since it doesn't have any particular body parts of the player, it can just be gender neutral, which is nice.

That kind of brings up the issue of the inquisitor's identity being decided by the player making things more difficult in terms of art creation and writing, which is a thing. I've talked about it before on discord I think. Basic summary is that it probably would have been easier on me if I hadn't decided to include both boy and girl option, but it's not so inconvenient that I'm going to remove it. Maybe I'll regret that later, but it is what it is. I know for sure that there are people who would be upset with being forced into either option, and honestly I would be as a player too.

Deep down if I was FORCED to choose between mprotag or fprotag I would probably choose F though. Don't tell anybody.

A little narcissistic

When you think about it, it doesn't really make any sense for the inquisitor to have notes on him/herself. It's a video game though, and there are a lot of other things about the research notes menu that don't make sense when you think about it. How the heck is there a scroll bar in a book?

Uh but aside from that, people have been asking for a way to rewatch certain story cutscenes that don't replay themselves if you meet certain qualifications in new game+, so this covers that issue. As long as I remember to manually add all the story scenes, that is. Currently I have them set to not show hints (so they won't appear as ??? before you view them normally), because that also feels like a thing that wouldn't make sense. Maybe it isn't a big deal though.

Also I can't shake the feeling that somebody is going to point out that some scenes would make more sense to put under the Witch or Coraline's notes entry and to that I say "fair enough" but also "meh".

Anyway, see you later this week for the update to alpha 14!