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September update
🕑 Added 2024-09-20 15:00:14 +0000 UTCHello all, and happy September! At this stage of a project, things start getting a bit all over the place, and so I've been less disciplined about letting you know what's going on than I'd have liked - apologies for that, and I hope to keep on track better!
I've spent the month so far responding to beta tester feedback, which has been extraordinarily helpful. Every time I go through this process, I'm floored again by how thoughtful and detailed the notes I get are. So I've been busy! This is the list of fixes and changes I've made so far, and there are more to come - today I've been going through and personalising lots of compliments the NPCs give to the PC so that they reflect the PC's appearance and/or personality. It's like sending lots of Valentine's gifts...
I'm getting closer towards the end of playtesting now, so my mind is turning towards what I might like to make next. At the moment I have two ideas, one of which is in the Creme de la Creme setting, but am leaning more towards the non-Creme one at the moment. Gasp! I've been writing in this setting for six years now, so I'm feeling like a break and then probably a revisit are in order. But I'll see how I feel...
For Sneak Preview subscribers, I've put up a mini prequel game which is a day in the life of the Honor Bound PC, aged 17. It's called Recruitment Day, and you can play it here!
For everyone, I've also re-uploaded the Honor Bound prologue that I made last year before I released the demo. Play it here!
And finally, I've updated the Chapter 1-3 public demo with all the various fixes/tweaks/polishes that I've been doing in beta. You can play it here!
Current wordcount: 589448 words
Current average playthrough length: 98518
Monthly progress: uh, I'm not sure as I've lost track a bit. But the beta started on 14th August, and it was about 547,000 words then.
