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Debating - Side Quests

I originally had the idea to do side quests every other episode but now I have the idea to do it every episode but that does mean it’ll take more time to release the beginning of episodes.

I don’t know. I love them but they do take time to write (like almost everything :s)

Sincerely, this confused writer

Side Story - Nia

1979

She thought that her mother was bringing her to the park far too frequently. She remembered how a long time ago — she isn’t good at giving a good estimate on time. It was probably a week ago — she begged to be taken to the park by the library.

Her mother had been so busy lately and she didn’t know why....

I guess just some random crap/ Writing Diary #6

The public version is slightly different from the early access version. Not vastly different, just apart from correction of typos, some rearranging of words. The same story beats are hit so those who paid for it didn’t miss anything.

I haven’t begun episode 4 since I’m taking a slight break. Feels good since I’ve been working on e...

Early Access - 3/3

Anyway here it is. It probably has a lot of typos as I haven’t done the sweep I usually do. I’ll do that between now and next week. I do think some code might be fucked because I added a lot to the last bit and so many lines you miss things so if there’s anything wrong just tell me :)

Password is: 2777

2024-03-19 17:54:07 +0000 UTC View Post

Writing Diary #5

So I’m currently writing a scene that is a continuation of the scene at the end of episode 1, where our four family players are once again in the same space and… you can imagine how they’re interacting with each other.

Writing incredibly easily offended and cruel teenagers is so much fun. Like they go right for the jugular and it’...

Writer aches

Is there anything harder than writing dialogue without saying “says” or tense variations of that? Like that why don’t we have more synonyms words for said???

You can say “declares, proclaims, asserts” but it doesn’t evoke the same feeling as “said.”

There’s only so many ways I can make it engaging without repeating...

Sneak peek - Romance Episode 3

Imre friendly!romance: “answering my question with a question. If we both do that we’ll spend the rest of the night talking.”

Imre antagonistic!romance: “I’m partially offended that you would ever think I’m aiming to grow a white man’s afro.”

Nia friendly!romance: “I don’t. It’s a by-product of being you, Bird...

Writing Diary #4

So I’ve been asked to include more options for speaking to the ROs. It’s interesting to get different sides of their personality depending on what you choose. It’s also exhausting to remain on one scene because you writing this dialogue for three people, but I wouldn’t change it. I don’t like the idea of giving the readers a copy and p...

Side Story: Orla

May 1990

She almost cried as she tried to slip her strapped heel over her foot. As it came off it snagged on her big toe and she bit her bottom lip to stop herself from screaming.

She throws the heels, th...

Tier change

I really do not get tech sometimes. Anyway, I set the the the second tier the Croun resident one to 10$, what it didn’t tell me is that it automatically assumes it’s in USD and it doesn’t tell you 😭

So while I thought it would be 10$ Canadian and like 8 bucks American. It’s actually not that at all. So this is all to say I’m v...

Writing Diary #3

I usually give myself like a few days before I start writing again but since the update I have begun working on part 3. Usually because the hardest part in writing for me is the first sentence when there’s a scene change or when there’s a time jump of a day or so.

This section is my favourite part of the episode because the major cast...

Side Story - Percy

JUNE 1986

He had hoped they would remember. He had told them. He had even drawn a reminder and put it up over the fireplace.

But Percival had awoken that morning of his 12th birthday, crept as silently...

A DATE NIGHT

Enjoy a singular night with the man of many people's dreams years before the events of the same storyline. See who Sally is when he's not the big brother. 

As always all my work is for a mature audience.

Sneak Peak/Update

I did think that I wouldn’t finish episode 3 part 2 until March but by the way I’m going I think I could release it near the end of this upcoming week.

This part focuses a lot on mc investigating things and how they approach that which sometimes works in their favour and sometimes doesn’t.

There is also a Nia appearance here....

Writing Diary #2

In writing a mystery in an IF context is interesting because sometimes certain information that you would love for the readers to get is based on choices they make. Given this they might miss some interesting facts about the whole mystery at the centre of the game.

Oftentimes I have to stop myself from later on adding that information in a...

RO SIDE STORY - IMRE

1980

Imre Alonzo Duran didn’t want to go to school.

Alara, his mother had said that if he wanted to be a smart boy he would need to go to school because only stupid children didn’t go.

He had pr...

Side story 1: Sally

DECEMBER 17TH 1975

The boy hadn’t expected this until New Year’s Eve.

Mother had said she was going to give him another sibling. He already had two, he didn’t understand why he needed another one. He didn’t even know if his Mother’s baby was going to be a sister or a brother.

He...

Episode 3 sidequests

I found I have a love/hate relationship with these... on the one hand, it takes me longer to finish something away from the main storyline but on the other, I love exploring the town and all its oddities. Plus it's good character-building fo...

WELCOME!

This is a bit strange to me... I never thought I'd be in the position myself to create a Patreon for my creative works. (Also making a bit more work for myself haha). If you're here thank you so much! And as a thank-you here is a sneak peek I've episode 3 :)

2024-01-03 20:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post