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Tickle Magnet #11 Roadmap Update
🕑 Added 2023-07-01 18:03:47 +0000 UTCTickle Magnet #11 Roadmap Update
Synopsis
No delays posted this month.
I did a TON of programming work this month to try to get the game where I think it needs to be. The scope of this game is an absolute beast, and I'm just trying to get my arms around everything.
So what do I mean when I say the game is a beast? Well, when I looked at the marketing for other, similar tickling games, their word counts tend to hover around 50,000 words. That's a pretty good sized game, especially passion projects that these games tend to be, i'ts around novella size in length. When I ran a word count on The Cyriaan Chronicles #10, it's now sitting, after the epilogue, at around 70,000 words. That's getting closer to novel length. A touch above an "average" tickling game, if there is such a thing. When I initially scoped Tickle Magnet #11, I wanted it to be big. Like really big. I initially budgeted 110,000 words, which is slightly longer than novel length. I aimed high initially, but I have a specific vision for what this game is going to be, and knew it was going to be far longer than my previous game in terms of content.
Well, the newest word count has us just under 200,000 words right now! So when I say the game has a lot of content, that's a vast understatement. And because the length is significantly larger than I planned, it's taking me a long time to program it all in. I would say that's the primary reason for the delay in production, but it's a good problem to have.
This development has been rather exhausting, and I may likely take a break from game development after the game launches and is in a stable state.
It's also going to take a ton of testing, and that's something I'm trying to reflect in the road map now. I'm aiming to start my first playthrough of the game in August, where I'm hoping to squash most of the bugs. I'm giving myself two months for internal testing before I open it up to alpha phase testing in October.
January
Define scope of the game [COMPLETED]
Procure art assets [COMPLETED]
Commission first set of inner circle characters [COMPLETED]
Test UI [COMPLETED]
February
Main storyline drafted [COMPLETED]
March
Inner circle character story arcs drafted [2 CHARACTER INCOMPLETE]
April
Secondary characters interactions drafted [2 CHARACTERS INCOMPLETE]
Coding of the main storyline [COMPLETED]
Battle system created [ROUGHLY 40% COMPLETE]
Character sprites of characters in game [COMPLETED]
Finalize UI [COMPLETED]
May
Voice acting recorded for main storyline [NOT STARTED, PUSHED TO OCTOBER MILESTONE]
Voice acting for inner circle story arcs [SHELVED]
June
Optional content coded into game [ROUGHLY 20% COMPLETE]
Artwork (busts) finalized [ROUGHLY 80% COMPLETE]
Voice acting touch-ups [NOT STARTED, PUSHED TO OCTOBER]
July
First playthrough on test server [NOT STARTED, PUSHED TO AUGUST]
August
Second playthrough on test server
September
Alpha version launch [PUSHED TO OCTOBER]
Third playthrough on test server
October
No milestones
November
Beta version launch [PUSHED TO DECEMBER]
December
No milestones
January
No milestones
February
Game launch
Comments
oblesklk
Absolutely, ask away! It is on RPG Maker. It will likely be my final game on that engine. I wanted to experiment with more graphically advanced, 3D engines, but there's no way it could happen with the scope I wanted. As a for instance I needed dozens of NPCs, many of which are interactable in some capacity. And if it's costing $500-$1000 each to pay for a modeler to create each one, the budget gets nuts pretty quickly, so I stayed with RPG Maker. There's no gallery feature on this one. I had the Memory Stone feature in Cyriaan Chronicles #10, and that worked well, but there's only 12 scenes, so it's much easier to capture those dozen scenes. With Tickle Magnet #12, the tickling scenes are like grains of sand on a beach. OK, there may not be that many, but there's a lot. It's not something I'm aiming for by the beta, but after players have played the game, I'm certainly open to hearing how such a gallery would work.
Florian Anonym
I have 2 questions if i can ask them Will it be an RPGMaker game again and will it have a gallery feature and ways to unlock every scene?
