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Progress update?

  • Marrend
  • 08/08/2017 03:11 PM
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Since last I wrote on this gamepage... well, I'm still very slowly chipping away at the Library script. To wit, I'm up to 24 character descriptions! Out of 108. Uuuuggggghhhh.

However, I also got it in my head to do a rough recruitment list as to who gets recruited and when. As of this writing, I've only dealt with auto-stars that will probably be recruited in "batches". Such as what characters are auto-recruited when obtaining the Imperial Capital, what the party make-up at the offset of the game might look like, and what-not.

I'm thinking the game can be roughly divided into three chapters. This correlates to the number of sub-divisions (State-nations? Prefectures?) there are in Baclyae.

I'm not sure what's going to happen after that third prefecture's cooperation is gained, though. Like, this game has this civil war scenario where each "leader character" has this desire for the throne, and is fighting to see that the other two do not obtain it. I'm figuring that's why the Sovereign Rune becomes dormant after the Empress' death: it refuses to recognize anybody until they prove their worth to it. Though, what that means is anybody's guess!

Whoops! Sorry about the tangent! Anyway, I mostly just want to let you know that while progress is slower than a snail, it is happening!

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Marrend
Guardian of the Description Thread
21781
Whew! Just finished the initial write-ups of the 36 Stars of Heaven. I think my next step, before progressing to the Stars of Earth, would be to see how what I have looks like in-game, and cut text as necessary.


It also occurs to me that I should look to see how to check against the encyclopedia database, as the whole idea is to link these character descriptions to the Detective. Like, the idea in my head is that the Detective would display the list of characters that have been recruited, with the ones players have already researched being grayed out.

Or, maybe, the list would be the entire 108, with characters that have not been recruited labeled as "Not yet recruited", or some-such? Characters that have been researched would still be grayed out.
Marrend
Guardian of the Description Thread
21781
The plan for the Stars of Earth, at least as far as the Library is concerned, is to put the descriptions in-game in groups of 12. Given that I typically do write-ups of four characters in a day, that means it would take three days to implement a group. If I'm doing my math right, that means that this process will take 18 days.

By no means do I wish to suggest that those 18 days will be contiguous. However, I want to give some sense as to how soon the next update might be for both my own purposes, and for my subscribers' information.
Marrend
Guardian of the Description Thread
21781
All right! The first half of the Stars of Earth have been written and implemented! Only 36 stars to go!
Marrend
Guardian of the Description Thread
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Dumb question: should the Library have it's own background music? I'm thinking along the lines of things like Valkyrie Chronicles, Final Fantasy 15, and Final Fantasy Tactics on this point.

Thoughts?
Marrend
Guardian of the Description Thread
21781
The character section of the Library database is done! Maybe some write-ups could be better, but, I'm just glad it's over! It wasn't easy to do!

I'm mostly thinking of updating the download tomorrow. I'm hoping I'll decide about the background music thing by then as well :P
Marrend
Guardian of the Description Thread
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Download has been updated! I did end up having some background music to the Library scene, and the song should also be available in the Music Hall!


Saying that, I'm not sure what my next move is for this game at the moment. I dunno, it feels like a lot of stuff is happening simultaneously! Which... probably means this will probably be on hiatus for a bit.
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