HTML Transylvania [v0.5.18] [XFiction]

[Anonymous Crab]

Thanks for your thoughts, happy you've enjoyed the experience so far! A few answers for you:

-first of all, the game does receive regular updates and certainly more content is planned until the story is fully fleshed out

-Regarding Chapter 2, it's currently the smallest one, which is why I've been working on expanding and polishing it. Development is a bit cyclical, and I've switched around working on different chapters and branches to avoid burnout.

-Chapter 3 is actually pretty massive, HOWEVER it's where things really start branching off into their espective endings based on your choices for your own fate and who you side with. Because of that, while every chapter inevitably has content that you won't see on a given playthrough, this goes especially hard for chapter 3, as endings are mutually exclusive and there are a LOT of them (and more planned)

Oh that actually makes a lot of sense, especially if the 4 branches (assuming each of the 4 achievements are a separate route) in Chapter 2 are any indication of how much divergence there is for 3. I recall there being a message upon entering Chapter 3 about the in-progress nature of it, but I didn't give much thought to how much it might splinter further based on the other 3 routes. Definitely going to have to revisit those in the future.

It's been awhile since I played, and it's possible the feature exists somewhere or is a paid bonus, but some kind of scene gallery or checklist might also be really helpful in conveying how much content is unexplored/unseen for players (if I didn't forget one already exists ofc). I was using the achievements as a rough guide since they seemed to correlate with encounters, or at least the side encounters, hence my mistaken impression about Chapter 3 (iirc it only had a 1-2 achievements?). Honestly, without posting here I wouldn't have ever learned otherwise from your reply.

 

[Vincent Valensky]

Oh that actually makes a lot of sense, especially if the 4 branches (assuming each of the 4 achievements are a separate route) in Chapter 2 are any indication of how much divergence there is for 3. I recall there being a message upon entering Chapter 3 about the in-progress nature of it, but I didn't give much thought to how much it might splinter further based on the other 3 routes. Definitely going to have to revisit those in the future.

It's been awhile since I played, and it's possible the feature exists somewhere or is a paid bonus, but some kind of scene gallery or checklist might also be really helpful in conveying how much content is unexplored/unseen for players (if I didn't forget one already exists ofc). I was using the achievements as a rough guide since they seemed to correlate with encounters, or at least the side encounters, hence my mistaken impression about Chapter 3 (iirc it only had a 1-2 achievements?). Honestly, without posting here I wouldn't have ever learned otherwise from your reply.

Indeed, the paid version has a "Gallery" option to directly replay specific scenes, which can also serve as a checklist.

The achievements are also meant to guide you and give you a sense of how much content you've covered, though for Chapter 3 I haven't implemented them for the different endings, but may end up doing just that to better telegraph the scope of options.

In short, the main branches are "character of choice" (Lavius, Mihai, The Elder, Elise, Felicia) in combination with transformation choice (Woman/Demon), and each of those hase 2-3 "flavor variations" to the main branch. Of course, not everything is implemented yet, but there are around 20 available endings, counting flavors, and some special endings with the Wolf for example.