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small celebration #2
🕑 Added 2022-11-30 23:00:15 +0000 UTCAs November comes to an end, I've submitted my full first draft of Royal Affairs to my editor! It's currently a total of 333000 words, and an average playthrough of 71000 words (longer than any of my other CoGs).
It's been intense. I've added about 10000 words in 4 days doing the following:
Small changes/fixes:
- tweaked wording of MC height choice
- added a little more context to initial Politics class
- added a playful option in Chapter 5 towards Asher
- added option to not support either teacher in Chapter 5 with associated choices and outcomes later in the chapter and Chapter 6
- reduced difficulty of getting a perfect inspection score in Chapter 5 so now it's challenging but possible
- Many many small fixes, continuity fixes, typos
Stats:
- put NPC stats back on the stat page and renamed/reworded some of them
- renamed Underhanded stat to Cunning (reflecting noticing agendas/subtlety/craftiness rather than purely deceptive/treacherous)
- balanced skill power levels so each skill is tested more evenly (in practice this meant adding a lot of options)
- standardised what the action skills are used for, mostly in early game sections
- reduced difficulty of getting top grades (previously 2% likelihood on RandomTest!)
General:
- reworked Josiane's storyline
- made Rosario's marriage to CremeMC mutually exclusive with CremeMC being a teacher
- Added some narrative description for breaking up with other characters if you've committed to someone else in late game
- News articles throughout to reflect public opinion and the state of the world
- Achievements
- Lots more romance and friendship time without stat tests
Comments
Jinx
Wow, the demo is exiting 😄 I'm looking forward to the end result. I love the way you included various elements of crem de la crem btw. and the experience of viewing a very similar story from a very different perspective is almost Intoxicating 😃😅 wish you well 😁
