Friday Update - April 8th, 2021

Woo! This has been a week. Yup. Seven days. That... that constitutes a week, yes.

Last week I mentioned having to re-write a scene three times. I was falling into a loop of self-doubt about things, because I want Chapter Two to be at least as enjoyable for everybody as Chapter One. I talked to some other devs and got some advice and a combination of things seemed to work. One was "try writing something different" (thus the Bodymore Times post earlier), which did seem to help. Another was to read something, which I'm technically doing as well! 

What I'm trying to avoid with Chapter Two is continue with the MC being confused and getting yanked around into a world they're unfamiliar with. It was kinda necessary with Chapter One, but starting with Chapter Two the MC has to take a more active role in things as the "lead investigator". I think after the introductory scene of Chapter Two, you (the player) should have enough knowledge of the Mythos universe. The plan is that the main cast be your "Scooby Gang", which each of them having their own merits and flaws to aid in the investigation, while also being a little suspicious themselves -- there's a murderer somewhere in the game, after all!

I think I've finally had my breakthrough on how to accomplish that! At the very least, you all get a bunch of hot girls hanging around while you fumble your way through evidence.

It's hard to give progress updates in such vague terms, but I can't get too specific, can I? I don't want to outright say what's coming.

However, starting with last week, the pictures I'm using for the Friday Updates are now specifically rendered for these updates -- they're not screenshots from the game, but little glimpses of things that are happening soon before the MC arrives in various scenes of Chapter Two. Hopefully trying to piece things together can keep your brains occupied for a bit while I bash out the rest of the Chapter.

As I do that, keep the legends alive!!! 

- Teri 💜