Script Update/Ramble

Yeah, this game is going to be almost 400,000 words. I've tried to fight against it every step of the way, but it is no use. When this game started out, it had two story routes, six romance routes, and it was going to be like 250,000 words maximum. Now it's got almost twice as many words, and almost twice as many romance options, and twice as many story routes.

I have two chapters left for Kai, and the final chapters for Lir's and Cass's routes. Definitely will be able to finish this draft by the end of this month.

I do have a bunch of notes in my notebook that I wrote down while I was writing the script. I need to go through the script and fix the things that I jotted down in there so I wouldn't ruin my flow by going back and fixing them on the spot. I also need to have my developmental editor give this a read through and give some feedback.

I've also decided that I'm going to start the split for the routes beginning a little earlier in chapter 7 instead of chapter 10 like they are now.

Right now, that chapter is pretty linear and there's only an interaction with one of the romance options, but I think it would be more impactful if you could choose which romance option you interact with in that chapter. Which would mean at that point you're pretty much locking yourself into that character’s romance route. Not necessarily, though. If you have enough “points” with someone else you could choose them instead later on at the end of 10.

But this does mean I will have to write nine more versions of ch 7, which is about 5000 words now, so probably it’s gonna be around 50,000 words for that chapter in total with the branching. I'll be tackling that next month as well as little edits here and there.

The only reason I didn’t do this to begin with… is I hate writing the same thing only slightly different. I did not know this about myself until I started writing a game. Nothing saps my soul more than writing the same event, but just a different character. I actually preferred to write just a whole new scene from scratch for each RO instead. More work… but more fun.

Sometimes I feel incredibly guilty it's taking me so long to get this game out the door. But l've written and rewritten a script that's about the size of five normal books every year, so putting it that way, yeah. It's going to take some time. I may also just be a very slow writer. Plus I had about 300+ unique pieces of art to do as I wrote as well.

Anyway. Thank you all for your patience. Thanks for reading this if you got to the end. I really appreciate the support and love you've shown my little (big) game. Very much could not make this thing without you all!! 💙

Ok now back to writing. I’m halfway through my daily goal and I needed a little break. Break’s over!