succumbrewery

Sunday Update: Happy New Year Edition

Added 2024-01-01 04:52:03 +0000 UTC

First off I'm happy to ring in the New Year with everyone. I would say that I'm real wound up about the current delays, but honestly I'm just enjoying the holiday. However, most of the art is in and now I'm just doing all the detail work to get the waitress game up and running.

By this time next year the game should be at least at v0.6. I think it'll be further ahead than that because I can afford to order even more art than previous and I don't intend on any major complex mechanical additions to the game. From here on out my goal is writing all the scenes that fill out Catherine's corruption while slowly updating the art of the other ladies and adding in art for chuds, cyborgs and more.

My other major goal is to focus a lot of pacing. The biggest complaint I get right now is that things slow down too much at the higher corruption level. So I'm thinking about ways to fill in scenes, add more in-between scenes, and re-do some of the pacing. My goal is to allow a player to play organically and see Catherine be corrupted at around the same speed they upgrade the bar. Even in text I struggle to say exactly what I mean but I don't want the bar to be fully upgraded before Catherine's first training, but I also don't want her to have gone through every training before unlocking the waitress game. So I'm going to do more to mess with the pacing and the numbers to make an organic play through feel better. Obviously you will still be able to hold back corruption or to embrace it and speed run the training. I'm also playing with ways to make when an "!" scene is a new one or one set on repeat so the player knows when a scene is updated due to her last training.

Anyway, as always, I think every one of you for supporting the project. I intend to keep adding scenes, and fixing balance until the game is complete so that the final story of Catherine and IO is exactly where I want it to be. Then I can take a break... and start working on the next game I'm brainstorming.