Waterfall 5: Extras and Secrets

All unreleased material w/trivia on the Horrortale Waterfall Game~

Hello dearest Patrons. Thank you for being by my side up to this point. I'm happy to share good news with you this month~ Horrortale will return on March 1st, to be drawn on a weekly basis! The Waterfall Game is a success, and I'm bolstered now more than ever to return to the comic and engage with all of you more frequently.

I cannot thank you all enough for giving this game a chance. Being an amateur artist/coder means finding my style can be a real struggle, yet I still really enjoyed writing and designing for this game. No worries if you haven't played it; the start of next chapter will be a brief recap on the important events that just took place.

Attached, you will find certain secrets and goodies unreleased to the general public. Here's a little trivia:

1. My basic setup of game-development, using Adobe Animate. My games work primarily with a mix of timeline navigation and animated moving clips. The blue represents clickable "hot spots". QUICK NOTE: This program is expensive. I would not have been able to make this game without the aide of my incredible patrons. 
2. Early drawings. Development begins with a LOT of rough art in place of the finished animation. On the left is Aliza, in case you couldn't tell. On the right is a pose of hers I never ended up using.
3. Speaking of rough art, take a look at early Ghost Kid. And there's Aliza with him. The scene of him speaking to you was added very last-minute; for the longest time I intended for the fire to just kill Aliza.
4,5,6. The next few pictures are a completely deleted scene. At one point, successfully diverting the water to Onionsan also revealed a hidden cavern behind a now-gone-dry waterfall. if Aliza walked through it she'd find the echo flower that Sans happened to come by in this comic page scene. Sans would then appear just before they reach Onionsan, and briefly lament over what he did to The Core. Afterwards, he'd give Aliza a cleaned, bone-like weapon. None of this happens if player never finds the echo flower.
I love this scene, but it was simply too much work to implement, and I still don't know if I really want Aliza to have this weapon.
7. Just an earlier version of Onionsan. One of the biggest motivators to make this game was to surprise you when you see her fully revealed in her HT form.
8. I'm really not a fan of this, but it's an important picture. This black wall of snake eyes, along with the cavepicture in the game, both allude to how the comic ends. I'm still not sure, but I think Horrortale has maybe 2 more major chapters in store before the story is finished.

Lastly, enjoy the images straight from the game! The wordscramble was really fun to make :) Feel free to tell me if you have any favorite parts or criticisms!

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