ABDLCheeks

Writing away

Added 2023-09-21 23:25:43 +0000 UTC

Hey everyone, So things are going well.

Patreon seems to be having trouble posting at the moment. I've tried to post this update a few times. Not having much luck so with any luck this one will go live.

The template tool is finished. It took a little bit longer because I added a few really useful features into it. Most of this is directed towards making a writer's life much easier. It's also designed to be very flexible so I can use it in multiple ways. One cool feature is it can automatically convert written text into the special tags that are needed for dynamic text components.

The system could always obviously convert from like [Name] into the players name but now it can autodetect words that can/will be replaced and do it in reverse. This makes it much more smooth and natural to write. You don't have to keep stopping to get the square brackets out.

Now that the tool is working I'm going to be writing up a good set of instructions that should help with understanding how it works. I also need to build a blank template and start filling in some basics so I can start testing it. The idea is I will be building a master NPC AI that can pull in these template files but otherwise share lots of the basic game logic. It's likely I'll have a few different basic NPC's designs that can all pull from this file. In more good news on the writing front. The new writer I'm working with has created item descriptions for all the items in the game. These are just great little cute statements that should help give some context and make the inventory feel a little less empty.