Weekly Update #56 - A few rewrites, some coding before heading towards release

Hey all,

Quick update as we're on the last blogposts before release.

I've made steady progress on the implementation, though I did go back on a bunch of the writing for the roleplaying part that will unfold in the new app.

I wanted this small arc to really feel like a "choose your own path" adventure, which means branching paths and choices that alter the events that follow. The game already somewhat implements that in its core structure with the dialogue/story tree though since this is a one-shot, contained narrative arc I can explore more branching paths.

It's a tricky endeavor nonetheless as it can rapidly explode in a huge tree if every branch can spawn a couple of branches, then if you want some of those to join back together later... It's a lot of work but it's invaluable experience as it encourages me to improve my data model to generate and accommodate these branching trees, with a more long-term goal to have the main story be very non-linear and emphasizing on players' choice.

This led me to do some pretty substantial rewrites in the RP D&D story so far, with as I mentioned some parallel work to my scripting data model to accommodate a bunch of new parameters that will be used by the new app.

It's not weeks or months of additional work though, so we're still on board for the January release!

The progress charts haven't updated that much since there has been some back and forth in the scripting and writing, but I did want to give you guys another updated teaser to not leave you hanging too much!

Hope you guys enjoy it, thank you all for the support and now bear with me for the very last weeks before a new update! Stay tuned!