Early Access Release 0.1521.2 - Hiroko Route Conclusion(ish)
Added 2020-06-07 20:18:15 +0000 UTC'Sup, cakes!
It's taken a fair bit of tinkering, but Hiroko's new storyline is finally playable from start to finish! Well, it ends abruptly as I couldn't figure out a good line to end it on but other than that it's all there!
Most of you probably won't be surprised to hear I'm not too happy about this storyline either, but I don't think I'm going to get so hung up about it this time. This new bit of storytelling was completely based on little ideas I had with no clear endgame, done purely out of a desire to make a new Hiroko-led storyline even if I didn't have anything specific in mind. Really, I'm kinda impressed with myself that I've gotten this far with it!
So, a good idea or two but overall a bit clumsy, is where I think this storyline's at right now :/ It definitely bears further tinkering, especially the ending as I said, but I'm out of time if I want to publish something for you lot this weekend. Have a read and see what you think!
Artwise, things are still progressing great! Both CGs previewed over the last couple weeks are finished and in this update, so Hiroko's original route now has a nice range of CGs to accompany the story. And Nozomi's got her ending CG sorted, even if the text itself for it needs revising. I'll want to get to that in this next development period.
That's all for now! Hope you enjoy the new update and I'll have more articles for future updates in this coming week~
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What's New
- Fully written the scenes for Hiroko's new storyline up to the epilogue. Mostly... (Note - no music plays for the epilogue currently as I couldn't decide what to play there)
- Added a new CG scene for Nozomi's main ending
- Added a new CG scene for Hiroko's route
- Numerous edits to existing scenes in Hiroko's new storyline
- Android Version: Added an option to the UI allowing players to hide the UI until the screen is touched again
- Word count is now over 200,000! (201,111 to be precise~)
- Added the latest paying backers to the end game credits crawl
- Usual miscellaneous spelling and grammatical corrections
Comments
I'm happy her new storyline's been as well-received as it has :o I thought there'd be a ton more criticism of it (although there's still time for that~). Anyway, for next time I want to do some editing on both this Hiroko storyline and Nozomi's main storyline, then see if I can write out some of the smaller branch paths where I can. I feel I need to do that before I kick off on another new storyline :)
Angela DeMille
2020-06-08 14:26:11 +0000 UTCIt may not be complete yet, but that was still a great ending for that branch of the route - a very nice induction and a very satisfying way to cap off Hiroko’s arc. Kind of makes me want all of them to be canon, honestly (the consensual ones, that is)! :) May I ask what you have planned next?
Andrew
2020-06-08 03:09:01 +0000 UTC
