It's one of the most popular requests. I hear you guys. The main gameplay idea alternates between free roaming stuff and moments where the game carries you like a surfer wave. Chapter 1 serves as a sample. Don't worry - I'll give you the opportunity to wander and explore more than once.
Uh-huh. I don't know what this story structure is called by real game designers, so I'll describe it in my own words. It's bubbles with variations (choices), connected by narrow passageways, like a bottleneck that a player must inevitably enter for the story to stay under control and be able to move forward.
This scene might look weird only if you perceive the protagonist as a reliable narrator. All I can say is that Io is playing games she's playing.
Not this summer, no. September of last year, actually. That was the last update this summer. The next one will be at the end of this September (+/- week, maybe). Working on it.
That yours "no more than 10 to 15 percent" is actually ~400k words and a few thousand variables. But yeah, that's just the beginning of the story. I still have a lot of work to do. Sometimes it feels like a frightening amount of work. But I've felt that way for a long time, and yet I haven't quit, as you can see. And I don't intend to.
Exactly! Even the plot is somewhat similar, you'll meat a team of rogues with shady deals and the story is epic and you will travel to many places.A dance with rogues as in neverwinter nights?
To break the contract with the seal of Fathna, the most vengeful goddess, is a crime and a sacrilege at the same time. For the protagonist, such a decision would be... not so simple. But, okay, let's assume it is. What's next? Selene breaks the contract and finds herself in the middle of nowhere on her own? What am I, as an author, supposed to do with that? The troupe characters aren't just important to the storyline - without them, there would be no storyline at all. So hypothetical ultimate separation of the protagonist from them means the end of the game. But the beginning of some other story. Somewhere offscreen. Because it's a story-driven rpg and not an open-world one (what I never promised anywhere). I just can't physically model an entire world for adventures of all kinds on my own. Not with that level of detail, anyway.
You will leave after this little prank?
), or get a sweet payback in-kind with a sexy hot brunette .
Well, strictly speaking, we don't know what the sequence was there. If Selene escaped Cadonis' seduction, there would be an option to get angry with Iolanta and say a few "kind words" to her, but still have to go with her. If Cadonis has successfully seduced Selene, then there is an option to "repay" Iolanta and continue traveling with him instead. From this point on, the events of the chapter will follow one of these two parallel courses. There will be no global differences, but some of the dialog (and sex scenes especially!) will be replaced with completely different ones. And they won't crossover until the end of the current update (1.5). However, in the next update (1.6), they may cross for the first time under certain scenarios.When no harm was done? After all, nobody push you to go with or repel Cadonis. You were totally free of your actions.
And afterward, you can even ask for your share to Iolanta (and earn the fabulous fortune of one copper coin
The ending of 1.5 (camp by a small lake) is the last released update. But here, as I understand it, was talk of Selene leaving after the bet scene (it's the very beginning of 1.3). But in any case, from a common sense perspective, her leaving under the current circumstances for any possible cause would be odd for exactly the reasons you described. And from a story standpoint, that essentially means game over.
Yeah, a nice bronze dagger. But it might be a bit damaged if you're not being careful in the next episode... Oops, I'm babbling again, don't mind me!
