Hey Clara-Fans! π
I always try to be transparent about the development of Tomb of Destiny (without too many spoilers) so I thought a little heads-up about the near-future plans is in order.
Continuing the approach of the last couple of updates, there will be another "grab bag" update next, that adds to, and improves, various aspects of the game, before the update following that one will mark a big milestone: adding the last remaining Chapter 3 ending (let's call it "neutral" although that's a bit of stupid name) and therefore the first feature complete version of the game! π₯³
As for the upcoming update, as always, I try to take care of some backlog items as well as incorporate feedback and suggestions by you, my beloved community! β€οΈ
Don't read this as a definite content scope but here are some of the things that I'm looking at and that will likely make it into this update if nothing interferes:
Chapter 3 "Clara" ending: More/longer naughty scenes- I received feedback that the "Volta" ending had more naughty scenes than the Clara one and you are right. I guess I have been focusing a bit too much on the 'romantic' stuff and wrapping up the story, but I understand that for a climax in any ending in an adult game, it should amp up the sexiness a bit. So I'm looking at some options to add new scenes and/or extend the existing ones.
New Music- I am very happy with the music in the game, currently, but unfortunately, double checking some of the Creative Commons and Royalty Free tracks that I used revealed that they are registered for Content ID despite being 'free to use'. This is the system that for example Youtube uses to detect copyrighted songs. It's not really an issue for the game itself but could suck if someone for example wants to upload a gameplay video on Youtube or if a trailer with game music is released.- Just to be on the safe side, I will replace a lot of tracks with ones that are completely license-free / have no content-ID. I will try to stick as close as possible to the existing ones in terms of style and quality, hopefully it works out. I expect some might sound slightly worse, others slightly better, we will see.
Autoforward-Feature- This is a RenPy-Feature that is currently not available in the game because it caused some issues in the past. However, I want to bring it back as I understand it can be a convenient feature and also help with accessibility. For those who don't know it (yet): It allows you to let the texts and voiceovers play by themselves, one after another, instead of having to click/confirm every dialogue box to start the next one.
New Intro-Movies / Menu-Backgrounds- Lower on my prio-list, but also something I wanted to do for a while. My idea is that there are multiple different intros that change depending on which Chapter you are in, to better fit the mood (the current one is only really related to Chapter 2).
... apart from that there are of course a lot of smaller titbits here and there (hrrhrr, he said 'tit'), plus also one potentially bigger addition that I want to keep as a bit of a surprise, as I don't know yet if I can pull it off from a coding perspective, but could be really fun if I manage to do it π
I expect the Early Access version of this Update to be ready some time in March.
In the meanwhile I am already conceptualizing the "neutral" ending and am on a good track. Although it's technically the 'bad' ending as in, you will neither get to be together with Clara nor with Volta, I have some cool ideas to make it still very rewarding in its own right and something you want to check out even when you've seen the other endings.
That update is likely to be ready in April, although I am on holidays for a bit around mid-April and hope this won't interfere with it too much.
Thanks once more for your support and always feel free to shoot me a message when you have ideas what else you want to see in the game, or any kind of feedback! π€
See ya soon! π