Hello Backers!
With the latest release Dungeon 4 was brought to the fold, with a few new characters (Nora, Leila, Isabella) making their appearances and a whole new area, the Red-Light District starting to get implemented. This area will usher in a new breed of deplorable content with drugs, gambling, prostitution, and other nefarious activities going on behind the scenes, with 3 main leaders behind each branch of activity.
Meet Nova, Elaine, and Xenos. I spent a decent amount of time planning their abilities and their overall dynamics with one other and am happy with how they turned out. Just be careful not to get on their wrong side. These 3 characters also happen to make up the last main side-character slot, completing our cast!
Anyways, this release introduced Nora, an ally to Emma and one of the few people she has on her side. A cranky body-swapper with shadowy abilities. Her design turned out really nice and I'm happy with how she fits into the cast of characters.
Nico is sidelined for a bit dealing with some lustful urges, but he'll be back shortly I'm sure.
(Also the intro skip caused a lot of bugs. Sorry about that. It should be mostly good now though hopefully.)
With all that being said, let's move onto this next release!
1. Side Content: Red-Light District Implementation
First and foremost before I continue moving on with the main-story, it's important that I actually flesh out the areas before and during it. This means that dungeon 4 will not receive any new story content the next update. Instead, the time will go to implementing a much more story-rich and complex environment in the Red-Light District. Much more so than the City. With this there's a few main things I'm looking to add this next release.
Implementing the Casino
Implementing the Strip Club
Implementing Drug Den + Drug Dealers (Addiction Mechanic) (Not 100% sure if the addiction mechanic will be added this release.)
Implementing a LOT of NPC's and sprites with dialogue
The Red-Light District has a lot of planned content and I'll be implementing the base for that future content.
2. Side Content: All Side-Characters
This one is pretty self-explanatory, but for this release I'll be doing a new event for every single main-side character. This has been a long time coming but I think every 3-releases I'll do something like this.
This probably will take up a decent chunk of time but I think it'll be nice.
3. Side Quest: Abandoned Hospital Exploration
The dev poll backers have voted! The next side-quest to be added will be the Abandoned Hospital. Two woman along with Emma enter a hospital and slowly start acting more and more strange. Wonder why.
4. Guidance Bear Enhancement
I need to make his menu pageable and then add the side-characters that aren't in there yet. Pretty simple, kind of tedious. Should be fun.
5. Implementing Backers Choice
As always I'll be implementing the backers choice. A backer requested it so I'll give the top 2 winners two events instead of one this release. Definitely seems like it'll be Mystery Emma and Aurora at the moment, but we'll see.
Anyways, after this release it'll be back to main story content probably. We'll see how far I get in the side-content implementation.
Thanks again,
TDL