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Cosmic Map, New Polls and Perks Distribution
🕑 Added 2017-07-20 23:57:36 +0000 UTC Hello everyone!Thanks for still being here with us and thanks to all the new Patrons! You guys appeared all together out of a sudden. A very nice surprise!
TL;DR: Cosmic map (link below), new poll (post below), early versions will be released more widely.
So, about the tidbits about Paige we promised yesterday. As some of you might know, we decided to produce Blair's episode because of one of the earliest polls in this page. In there, we introduced 4 ideas, and the Patrons at the time chose Blair out of the four main girls.
At the time as well, we referred to this episodes as "mini-sodes", because they were supposed to be small and take bout 30 days to get ready. As I look now to the draft papers we have made for each one of them, I can kind of see how Paige's and Wal's could be done in about 30 days, but Emanuelle's would be way too complex in visuals and Blair was already at that time the biggest and meanest of them. Such is life, Blair's was picked and we suddenly engaged ourselves in building five whole new systems to make this new chapter of the game possible.
This turned out to be both a good and a bad thing. Bad because it stifled the growth of our project. Since no "real" content was put out for so long, there was no steady influx of new Patrons which would be necessary for getting this at full speed.
It was a good thing though because it forced us to do a lot of world building and figuring out how the characters would interact with each other this early on. We *really* like what we have drafted so far, and have a feeling you'll like it too. Like it much more than what it's possible now.
On a side note, I can now fully understand why so many movies and games nowadays pay almost no effort to precise and deep world building, and it's simply because all you do is think about ideas instead of writing or producing them, which is the thing that generates, well, money.
This being said, the progress is still going a little too slow for our taste and, what's worse, it has locked ourselves of interacting with you guys more meaningfully regarding the development of the game.
With this in mind, we're going to change how the game dev will progress from now on. So far, we have already compromised to develop the first chapter of Blair's game and will stick to that until it's done. But instead of going only through that "pathway", we'll let you decide in which order the events of the games will be developed, and by that we mean both games: Blair's and Paige's. Which brings us back to a A Day with Paige, that is now back on the production line waiting to be remastered/expanded. Enough yadda-yadda, here's the breakdown:
- Check ADwP Cosmic Map here: http://imgur.com/aJ0mWXi
This is part of the spacetime map of the events we have currently planned or partially developed for the game. It's not final in any way, but it'll be used as reference in most polls from now on. Blair will get one of her own, once we have finished most of the details regarding her plot. - We'll call out for polls asking which events should be the main focus.
- At any time, there'll be at least two events undergoing development, and right now one of them is Blair's introduction chapter. The other one is now up to you to decide! Just go to this poll and cast your vote: https://www.patreon.com/posts/13164893
- Special requests (such as the $50 perks) will be made in parallel, and might be released separately.
If any of ADwP events get added, it'll first require a visual update to the assets since, well, it's somewhat needed. They'll probably be released as standalones chapters, so don't worry about continuity issues, but be mindful of the development time.
Oh yeah, we're also changing how early access will be done from now on. Instead of just having Beta versions, we're gonna have Beta, Milestone and Final versions.
Beta's will remain a Sharp-minded perk.
Milestone's will be made available to the Big Supporter's tier or higher (Blair's 0.04 will be a Milestone). Milestone versions will be made public once they are not the newest version available.
Final versions will be released to everyone at the same time (big launches are really good for promotion).
Since a two day lock on the final version was one of the Tiny Supporter's perks, we're going to add to that tier (and any higher) access to wallpapers, since the Big tier got a new perk. Those changes will all be committed soon.
Well, that's it for now! Any questions or comments, please let us know in the comments below!
See you all soon!
