I'm posting an update early. I'm going to change the days I update to Thursday because honestly I didn't know my get together every Friday night with a group of friends would interfere with my upload schedule. But it seems we don't say goodbyes until midnight. So instead of struggling to form readable sentences on here while simultaneously entertaining a group of my peers I decide to move this up.
tl;dr I move weekly updates to Thursdays and I ramble more.
Sadly I must admit my defeat and say I have not done 1,000 words this week. Maybe like 500 words? I've been busy focusing on WHY MY STATS WEREN'T WORKING!
but now they are
They'd do this thing where stats only change once you actually pick your option then open the stat window right after. If you didn't do that your stats just wouldn't change and you'd be missing some dialogue. So to forcibly make you view your stats change without it being too annoying I made them into notifications. Now with most options you get a notification bar on rather it decreased or increased. It looks hella cute so I like it.
Also some of my page links aren't... linking? As you can see from the red text in the gif. I don't know why but my keyboard just doesn't do parentheses right. They come out weird and sometimes backwards so I just fix them as I go. I have a few beta readers and I send them my progress every 1,000 words to make sure grammar and/or game functions are working properly. Once I start working on later parts of this season I might add more beta reader. May even get another writer once I start planning season 2. Yes there will be a season 2.
So now that looks and functionality is out of the way lets get onto what's really important. The story!
So I said in my last update that a death screen is in this episode and I just got into writing it. It's nothing too intense and is a very easily avoidable death. Pick the right stats or just avoid the wrong options. We're on the brink of episode one's climax. You've interacted with the monster of this episode twice so far and you're getting close to meeting the fun characters. I might push the option of a character's death in episode 2? I don't know. I said it was going to be in episode one but with how the pacing is going a death may be too fast? It's also an avoidable death. So I either push the death to a later episode or lengthen episode 1 a bit. I'll see when I get there.
That's about all I have this week. I'll update ya'll next Thursday and see if I reach my goal or if I need to question my high standards.