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I appreciate you taking the time to download and play through Herach and thanks for the kind words.

Chapter 3 is already done and dusted and available on Patreon. I've actually already completed the full story arch, it's not fully scripted yet but the real time consuming part is the rendering. My lofty aims are to get an update of around a third or a half a chapter out each month to Patreon with a final story size of around 8 - 10 chapters, depending on how I chose to break it up.

Yea,h you may be right on the choice based approach. Like I mentioned in the other post, I have been tossing it around in my mind. I do think it's important though if I go down that route that I do it properly and not just create choices which close off content if you pick the wrong one. One day I think it's a great idea next day it's stupid, WTF am I thinking :)

I would encourage playing both routes if you have the time, you will get a fair bit of extra content that way. It's kinda like choices really. I guess I've already created that bed to lie in :)

A shameless plug for chapter 3, the total file size is 2.1gb, for this version it is 740mb, so you are getting double the content you seen so far.

Herach123 days ago

Yeah I've heard that rendering's a bitch! But those are some rather lofty goals! I hope you've got the time to fulfil them, but take the time you need of course. I just hope it'll turn out well because these first chapters set up a lot of promise!

Oh yeah, you do you. I won't complain about getting more content haha but tell your story the way you want to tell it, no matter what. I did check out both perspectives, and will keep doing so for the other chapters, but as a cis person with little personal experience in this topic, apart from meeting people at parties and such, I feel like I most relate with Michael. So It'll probably be the side I'll keep playing first whenever every chapter comes out.

The shameless plug is warranted and I'll consider it! It's pretty damn tempting!

Faenon Entertainment123 days ago(+2)

Thanks Herach.

I was learning on the job rendering out chapter 2, some of my early renders really showed that. Actually I re-rendered practically all of chap 2 because of a few issues that cropped up early on. The first thing I learned was that switching to AMD before starting this was a huge mistake, only when I sold a kidney (just kidding :)) and bought a 4080 Super did rendering times get down to a respectful level.

I understand that, I think that's why I went with the multiple paths route, because some folks want to identify with one role over the other, so you have the choice.

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