We have just about a month before the tfgame contest will have the voting and what not. I wonder if anyone else is planning to join? There seems to be some people on the forum who made posts, including one person who seems to have a lot of nice pictures and stuff for their game.
I got lots of endings to write. I didn’t make much progress today and Tuesdays seem like a bad day for me most week but plan to get a few more of the endings done this week, then probably switch back to the substories to finish that off, then finish working on all the endings next week.
Hopefully having a ton of different endings and making them all unique, will give me an edge in the contest. Since I know having choices leading to different endings is something people really like. Games some time feel lacking, even if they are really fun, if they end up at the same place no matter what you do.
Since I have the extra time, I was thinking of spending an extra week working on the endings for the game. So instead of having the mostly final game finished this week, I will have it done next week. That will let me have a week for the last quarter of the side stories, then another week solely for endings. Then I would have another week for bug fixes and spell checking. Then two full weeks for getting player feedback and polishing things up the best I can.
So I wanted to try to get the game finished, at least the first pass of it by the end of this week. Though maybe that is going to be a lot of work. So it is 16 endings, which I can do no problem but also have all the substories before. I wasn’t thinking about those as much. Well I still want to try to get it all done this week but it will be a bunch of work.
So got the update to the third interlude, the next update will go to the end of the game and have all the endings ready. If anyone reaches the end of the game and doesn’t see the ending message, let me know since that is a bug.
There are 8 branches at the end, though two of them have the same result, since it sort of makes sense(they are if you lose to Meshia or Selena but resist the other then resist again at the third interlude). They will have their own endings though, they just share that one part.
I am up way too late tonight. Was getting ready for bed but then I came across an interesting story and ended up spending way too much time reading it and now it is pretty late.
So the plan is to get the rest of the content for the game done by next week, then start polishing everything up and getting things smoothed out to get it as good as it can be. That leaves almost a month left over afterwards. I don’t think spell checking and polishing things will take an entire month though.
I am wondering what I should do with the extra time. I could rewrite them to make it even better, or work on the themes to have them tied together more closely. Or perhaps add more content. I am not sure yet, I will have to think about it.
I been feeling a bit meh this week. I have been getting a little do each day, but can’t seem to a lot done at once, since my focus kind of wanders and I don’t really do much of anything. Just feeling a bit unproductive about everything, not just about working on the game either. Feel like I should go and workout or something healthy and productive.
So I started doing daily posts in January, and have done a daily post pretty much every single day. I think the entire time there was only one or two days I missed, which I am not even sure about because it was from me like posting early one day then really late the next day, or posting really late then posting early in the morning and I forget if I posted or not. So maybe I have posted every single day, but at worse I think I only missed one or two days.
Anyway, I think that has been really successful on keeping me on track. I think I definitely got a lot more stuff done this year so far, than I got done other years. Some times I am not sure what to post about, especially on days when I don’t get a ton of stuff done or the stuff I got done isn’t that interesting. Which is how it was today, but I wanted to reflect a little on how things have been going overall.
So I mentioned yesterday I did some organizing and I have a general plan on what sort of scenes I am doing. Still, I am writing a lot of variations of the same scene, so I am sort of wondering where to take some of them. Like the complete give in and have a lot of sex, and the resist everything is easy to write, but the others ones that are sort of half and half are blurred a little.
I do plan on having the final endings being very different from each other. Though the interlude 3, where there are 8 scenes take place in a similar fashion. Or rather the setup is the same but what you do is completely different.