v.10 Progress and News.
Hi Guys & Girls,
Just an update on the progress of v.10!
I've rendered nearly 1000 images for this update so far, with the post work done on about 500 of them, and there will be many hundreds more than that when I'm done which will hopefully be in the next two weeks or so (before my exams begin).
Currently the entire game has about 3,500 images, so to put the size of this update into comparison in terms of development, I'd imagine it is going to be at least 1/3 of the size of the current entire game as it is.
Here's what is to come in v.10:
Expansion of Ellie, Vanessa & Stephanie's romantic storylines. All three will have new scenes and further develop your relationship with them.
Significant story expansion. v.10 introduces the final of four factions that will decide the ending of the story, and you'll have the opportunity to pick the one you feel will best help uncover the mystery surrounding Charles & Lydia Collier.
This will be a crucial decision that will greatly change the story going forwards depending on who you pick!
Epilogues! Currently the game only has one ending, and if you've met it, you'll know it isn't the happiest. Taking inspiration from the epilogues of games such as Fallout: New Vegas, v.10 will add (and apply retrospectively to the earlier ending) an epilogue of renders showing what happened to the main characters you've interacted with and the story itself, and this will vary greatly depending on the choices you've made so far should your story end. You'll find some choices you may have thought completely inconsequential could end up having major impacts in what happens after. Whilst hopefully you won't meet a game over any time soon, these will continue to expand and mean by the time we get to the final ending of the game, instead of having Red/Green or Blue, you'll have multiple different endings and futures for multiple different characters all depending on what you picked.
New Our Moments Profiles! You'll now be able to access Tiffany's Our Moments page, and if Stephanie has access to your building's gym, she'll be beginning her own. Other character's will also have theirs expanded, so be on the look out for those.
Renders should also look better! I've rendered hundreds of images in 4k, and whilst they'll all be downscaled to 1280, it should mean they look crisper and higher quality.
Small fixes to grammar and spelling. A huge thanks to anybody who has contacted me with fixes and errors they've spotted, every single one reported so far has been fixed for v.10.
Thanks again for all your continued support!
To the 10+ Supporters, April's Renders will be made in the next coming week!
White Phantom
Comments (3)
Awesome, Never played that game actually and have no idea about the lore. But it more or less is exactly how I imagined it. GOTT speed, WP.
I was actually looking forward to playing DLC the coming weekend, but I guess waiting an additional week 'is a small price to pay for salvation'. Hopefully you can release it before your exams, either way all the best (being the last leg ,final push and all that) . Also looking forward to the updates the new few months as you would have more free time to focus on it. So will the ending be like depending on your love interest or faction you get part of the mystery solved and there may or may not be an overall ending?
Essentially I've combined what in my head was two updates story wise into one for v.10, as for some players they're going to be going away for the weekend and I didn't want them to fall behind massively. That's why it is taking longer, simply more content is being made :) Regarding the endings, the best way I can really describe it is trying to mirror this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E80uavRuhLQ&t=41s . You'll have different endings for the main story, some of the side stories, and then different endings for each of the main characters all depending on what you choose. The factions is going to be who you spend the rest of the main story with, it is a very major choice and won't be given until you've met them all (you would have met three of them so far). When you then require help or to progress the story, these will be the people you go to. One of the four requires a certain LI, but the other three can be chosen freely. You'll then over the next few updates have different choices (which for some factions certain choices will work, however the same choices will be failures for others) which will give you a certain score going into the finale of the game. Depending on your score will then give you a good, mediocre, or bad ending for the main story, and then you'll see the endings for all the other people you've interacted with, but these additional endings will be based on how you interacted with them, not the faction score. (For example on player may choose Team A, Have a Bad Ending, Romance Steph and give Ellie a bad ending, another player may choose Team A, Have a Bad Ending, Romance Vanessa, and give Ellie and Steph Good Endings, another choosing Team C, Has a Good Ending, Romances Steph and gives Ellie a Good Ending.) Hope that makes sense, it is ambitious but now my render production has gone up a lot I'm confident I can get it working.