Development Update #33 - The next step.

Hey there everyone. How are you all doing?

Today I'm here to talk about the next step on the game development, but first I want to say a huge thank you to all of you who are still helping me with these troubled times. A lot of people in my country have lost their jobs because the government is not impeding the huge billionaires from firing people over the quarantine, it's chaos here. And of course, with a president who flirts every time with the American President, we aren't having good solutions for the COVID situation. And it's gonna be worse. So, right now my only income is you guys. Thank you so much for helping me, every tier 1 - 2 - 3 and 4 patrons. You're all showing how much you want this game done, and I'm working every day to continue this project now. 

Now, lemme talk about how work is doing: 

I'm working on the third day again, now of course, with Karnal's route. Karnal's route will have almost the same amount of lines as Wagner's, and speaking of him, I'm trying to force him to finish Karnal's character before I finish this third day with Karnal. I'm now at 44% of the day and since I just got more time to work with the game, I'll be finishing the text writing in five days top, as long as I'm not interrupted every time. Like all writers usually say "There's not a big enemy to a writer than being interrupted while writing something." Just like drawing, writing is a creative process, and being interrupted while doing it usually breaks that creativity, every time I'm forced to stop, I have to re-read what I have done just to check the quality and then, of course, I need to continue from where I stopped. 

That being said, Karnal's 3rd-day route will have three encounters (1st, 2nd, and 3rd) that will play depending on how many points you have with him, 4 Main Acts (Act 0, 1, 2 and 3), and each of the acts one to three will have three sets of answers with four possible answers going from F, B, A, and S. Every A, and S answers will have one and two extras routes for A and S respectively aside from the regular route you're sent when you answer any route. So if we do the math we will have 7 main routes, 36 basic answer routes, and 27 pointed routes (routes that need a certain amount of points to get if you answer an S or A-type answer). I don't think Karnal's route will have a 4th set of answers it depends on how much I can expand on his main scenario for this day. 

First, like always I will finish the main routes, then I'll finish the 27 pointed routes. If possible I want to put everything on the JSON file instead of releasing it in two parts like before, and of course: I'll only do it after Wagner finishes what he needs to do.

After that, I'm still searching for free-to-use music, but I really want to buy music for the game itself, a thing that I can't unless I get more patrons, to achieve that I'm going to start working on the first full Demo for the game. This demo needs to have: The game system working, three days worth of content with Wagner and Karnal, and at least all of the backgrounds used so far already painted. That last part is the tricky one since I depend on Wagner to finish the drawings. I will continue reminding him that I need him to give you guys the full experience. A visual novel needs the visual to be finished after all.  When I get to this point, I WANT to elaborate with him on a Title Screen. I don't know what I can do, but probably a front image from the Resort hotel right now would be a good image for that. If I have all of this done, I can then finish a good Demo for the game, release it first to my Tier 1 patrons (and all other patrons of course), then a month later release it for the public. If the demo is good enough, I hope we can grab more patrons, and with more patrons, I will be able to invest more money on the game itself instead of only paying my bills with it. 

As always I want you all to remember, if some points of the story are not good enough, please tell me. I'm working as hard as I can for this game to have a compelling story, porn an all. 

After I finish the Demo, I also will start working on the PLOT parts of the game, you know, specific routes that will happen between the second and third acts and can only be accessed by doing perfect gameplay with that character. Those routes will exist to make you all know more about the protagonist Aiden, Karnal, Wagner, and the third character that I won't reveal his name nor his species right now. Well, this last one you guys can figure out very easily.

Another thing you guys need to understand is that every single day for this game will be bigger than the last. So I expect a good amount o gameplay with the end product. I just want it to look as good as any other visual novels out there and I need to work with music and sound effects soon. That's a milestone I need to achieve and one that's not cheap.

Anyway, guys, I will continue working on the game every day from now on, fixing stuff, creating a good story, and making Wagner do his part as fast as possible too!

As always, thanks for your support and patience. You guys are amazing.