Progress Report #37

Episode 3 is coming along nicely and my new method of working on both WTHI and The Cabin is working out great! I've got more done in the last few days than I did all last month :P

I wasn't expecting a release until Feb but the way things are running we might be good for a Jan release, but don't hold me to that :P

From episode 4 onwards as well I think releases will be a lot quicker as well. The only reason this one is taking so long was because of last month and feeling so worn out, trying to work on everything at once just wasn't working out.

I've also decided to stop work on the 2nd game story... I wasn't a fan of the direction it started to take and turned into something a little... Rapey... Which isn't good :P

That'll now be the 3rd story I've scrapped and the weird thing is, I stopped all 3 because they all started to turn rapey... I'm noticing a pattern here, lol.

Since I'll no longer be working on those I might as well share what the stories were about:

• Story #1:  The 1st story would follow a 23 year old protagonist who is student at a university in his home town. He is studying physics as his Father and Grandfather were both physicists. When his Grandfather passed away he inherit a watch from him. The watch would turn out to be an invention of his Grandfathers and when used, the watch would stop time. However, it turns out our protagonists Grandfather wasn't the only person to invent the watch, it was a joint venture between him and a colleague but the colleague wanted to use the watch for not so good things. After spending years fleeing the colleague, he finally caught up to the Grandfather one night and the Grandfather knew what he had to do and he killed his colleague to protect the watch. ( that's as far as I got with the story but the rest would be mc using the watch for good and the Grandson of the colleague would chase down the mc. But with time being stopped, how is that going to be anything but rapey? :P )

• Story #2: This story I wouldn't actually say was rapey and it's probably something a lot of people could relate to. The story was going to follow an 18 year old mc who just finished college and is now working full time at his Moms resteraunt. He doesn't like this though as he suffers with anxiety and depression so all he wants to do is spend his time in his room working on his visual novel... Yeah, I guess I got the idea from my life :P It would basically be a real story following real people, but at the end of the day, I scrapped it because I feel people would want something to draw them away from reality :P

• Story #3: This one was actually somewhat like the 1st story. Instead of the whole Grandfather backstory though, the mc finds a device in his atic that belonged to his Father. The device had the ability to sense peoples desires and change into an object that would help fulfill that desire. The device would first turn into something that would stop a persons motion ( kind of like stopping time, but it doesn't actually stop time, just a persons motion and they don't remember being stopped ). The device could also turn into many other things like glasses for x-ray vision and other such naughty things :P But like the 1st game, the 'time freeze' element feels to rapey. 

I won't stop though. I'm still going to come up with a good 2nd game that ( hopefully ) hasn't been done before.