Newsflash: Nov 19

I'm so excited that Noblesse Oblige is now out in the world! Thank you all so much for your support!

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Total Noblesse Oblige wordcount progress: 8784 words

This fortnight I coded Royal Affairs Chapter 7! It's ready and waiting for me to get writing the content, probably sometime next week. I'm pleased about this one - it's quite a calm-before-the-storm situation with some ominous foreshadowing, but in general it's pretty slice of life.

I did my slightly chaotic notebook planning for Noblesse Oblige Chapter 4, and then less chaotic coding. I'm about halfway through writing the chapter now. In this chapter you'll get to meet some rich Jezhani people and go hunting! In this chapter someone may cry, someone may make out with someone who isn't you, and someone may drink some blood!!

This isn't a vampire story, I promise.

Behind the scenes:

You may be interested in what I was watching and reading in the summer while preparing to make Noblesse Oblige! All of these are relevant in various ways to the game, whether for atmosphere, genre, and so on!

-Jane Eyre (Mia Wasikowska)

-Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (reread; I last read it when I was a teenager)

-We have always lived in the castle (Alexandra Daddario) (I adore the book, but hadn't seen the film before now. I wasn't sold on some of the adaptation aspects but I enjoyed it)

-Stoker (Mia Wasikowska) (I didn't actually watch this in the summer but it's often on my mind for various reasons, mostly it being about A Fancy Mansion With Weird Residents)

I've been recommended The 39 Steps (one day I will do a full fledged spy game and it will be a delight), The Dig, and Villette by Charlotte Bronte for relevant Vibes. I've just started Villette - I'm looking forward to it.

My wife and I are going to have a movie night tonight where we watch Crimson Peak, though it's entirely more supernatural than Noblesse Oblige, because I've been intending to for years! To be honest I could watch Mia Wasikowska being in a weird mansion for days and be perfectly happy.

I don't have anything cut this fortnight, but I do have some sneak peeks from Noblesse Oblige: one is a description of a visit to a town, and the other is some placeholder text that, when I returned to it, made me chuckle.

Next up, I'll be carrying on with Noblesse Oblige Chapter 4, and then Royal Affairs Chapter 8! Can you believe it's getting this far already?