Shine

Shine has been out for awhile now, and people seem to have enjoyed it. I feel like now is a good time to talk about some things.

First, I wanted to clear up something regarding the "drug" Shine, because I didn't explain it very well in the game. To put it simply, Shine does a lot of crazy things to your brain to enhance it. You process things faster. You think faster, act faster, and learn faster. You notice many details you would have never noticed before. You can communicate in new ways that weren't possible before. These are basic examples, but that should give you a general idea.

The man in the video (Lumen) stated that Shine affects an area of your brain called the temporal lobe, but that isn't necessarily true. It could be one of the areas it affected, but not the only one. I was planning on removing that line, so I'll probably do that in an updated/fixed version of the game.

Lumen also mentioned that the students were processing things so fast, time appeared to have stopped. That was a lie. Or was it? To be honest, I wanted to leave that up to the player. Tacet (the man running the Mafia game) wasn't frozen in time. Was he given Shine to communicate with the students, or was something else going on? I may elaborate on this in the next game.

Now let's talk about the story. I haven't started a sequel, but I know where I plan on going with it. The next game will follow a different protagonist. Carter's story will continue, possibly later in the game, but there was another story I wanted to tell first. There's more to say about this, but I may stop there for now because reasons. When I decide to start the next game, I may make another blog with more information about it. I'm also considering switching to MV. There are only so many characters I can create with the VX Ace character generator, and some of them look too similar to one another.

Anyway, I suppose that's all for now. If anyone has an opinion on whether I should stick with VX Ace or switch to MV, feel free to comment. Thanks!