DarkFictionJude

Debating - Side Quests

I originally had the idea to do side quests every other episode but now I have the idea to do it every episode but that does mean it’ll take more time to release the beginning of episodes.

Side Story - Nia

1979

She thought that her mother was bringing her to the park far too frequently. She remembered how a long time ago — she isn’t good at giving a good estimate on time. ...

I guess just some random crap/ Writing Diary #6

The public version is slightly different from the early access version. Not vastly different, just apart from correction of typos, some rearranging of words. The same story beats are hit so those w...

Early Access - 3/3

Anyway here it is. It probably has a lot of typos as I haven’t done the sweep I usually do. I’ll do that between now and next week. I do think some code might be fucked because I added a lot to...

Writing Diary #5

So I’m currently writing a scene that is a continuation of the scene at the end of episode 1, where our four family players are once again in the same space and… you can imagine how they’re i...

Writer aches

Is there anything harder than writing dialogue without saying “says” or tense variations of that? Like that why don’t we have more synonyms words for said???

You can say “declares, pr...

Sneak peek - Romance Episode 3

Imre friendly!romance: “answering my question with a question. If we both do that we’ll spend the rest of the night talking.”

Imre antagonistic!romance: “I’m partially offended tha...

Writing Diary #4

So I’ve been asked to include more options for speaking to the ROs. It’s interesting to get different sides of their personality depending on what you choose. It’s also exhausting to remain o...

Side Story: Orla

May 1990

She almost cried as she tried to slip her strapped ...

Tier change

I really do not get tech sometimes. Anyway, I set the the the second tier the Croun resident one to 10$, what it didn’t tell me is that it automatically assumes it’s in USD and it doesn’t tel...

Writing Diary #3

I usually give myself like a few days before I start writing again but since the update I have begun working on part 3. Usually because the hardest part in writing for me is the first sentence when...

Side Story - Percy

JUNE 1986

He had hoped they would remember. He had told th...

A DATE NIGHT

Enjoy a singular night with the man of many people's dreams years before the events of the same storyli...

Sneak Peak/Update

I did think that I wouldn’t finish episode 3 part 2 until March but by the way I’m going I think I could release it near the end of this upcoming week.

This part focuses a lot on mc inve...

Writing Diary #2

In writing a mystery in an IF context is interesting because sometimes certain information that you would love for the readers to get is based on choices they make. Given this they might miss some ...

RO SIDE STORY - IMRE

1980

Imre Alonzo Duran didn’t want to go to school.

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Side story 1: Sally

DECEMBER 17TH 1975

The boy hadn’t expected this until New Year’s Eve.

Mother had said she was going to give him another sibling. He already ha...

Episode 3 sidequests

I found I have a love/hate relationship with these... on the one hand, it takes me longer t...

WELCOME!

This is a bit strange to me... I never thought I'd be in the position myself to create a Patreon for my creative works. (Also making a bit more work for myself haha). If you're here thank you so mu...