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A small celebration
🕑 Added 2022-11-25 11:23:24 +0000 UTCDear all, I'm so pleased to say that I have one (1) functional first draft of Royal Affairs!
Right now it's 323,000 words, with an average playthrough of 70,000 words - both are going to go up a lot during testing, I can tell you that much - and QuickTest and RandomTest WORK. That doesn't preclude continuity bugs, naturally. And I'm just about to turn around and do a bunch of edits before the beta - I have a BIG document of things to look at. Mostly they're things I thought of while writing and things I noticed from playtesting myself; some are larger-scale changes from player feedback that I wanted to leave until I had the whole thing down so I could see the big picture.
The main thing that you and others who've played the demo will notice once it's done is that I'm reworking the Josiane storyline that starts in Chapter 5 - currently she's not sure whether she wants to get engaged to her girlfriend, but it's going to shift. She will be sure about getting engaged, but has some conflict with the Queen about their plans afterwards - which the MC will be able to influence.*
It's very much not over yet, but I wanted to recognise this moment and thank you so much for your support. Royal Affairs has been a long wild ride, through layoffs, job changes, a plethora of other personal things, a pandemic... and I really appreciate your help. Making Royal Affairs would have been far more stressful without it. Thank you!
*a special spoiler for those who want it:
and under some circumstances you will be able to be in a joint engagement ceremony with your own partner...
