Notes From Province will actually be finished. Well, someday. I took a brief break from game dev, then spent a few months on a side project, but now NFP is back in the spotlight.

I'm just coming from a full playtest of the game, and have one key takeaway: this game is insane. You can't step 3 tiles without running into a new quest. When you got a dozen things to do, in a dozen different directions, you feel stuck. Now the later parts of the game handle this better. You have a set of tasks focused around one area of the world, which open up a set of tasks focused around another area. The early game? Chaos.

Because of this, I'll be going through the game's content and updating the pacing of when it becomes available. The goal is to group stories focused on similar areas of the world and have them become available around the same time.

The next big development task is to take all the plans for the game and throw them out. This game is long. Finished game should take ~20 hours for a player invested in closing out all the side stories and figuring out how to jump to every chest. I'm working on trimming the unfinished content to a minimum so I can actually release the game. I've got it down to Province Town + 3 explorable areas, and 4 chapters of main story.

In terms of general progress updates, 2/3 of the explorable areas are mostly complete and chapter 1 of the main story is implemented, tested, and ready to go.