It's been one month since the release of, Anna the Series Test. And honestly I'm shocked and overjoyed to see that so many people have enjoyed it this far. When I was creating this game, from the first idea up to it's release, I wasn't sure if even one person would play it so to see how well it's doing now is great. So thank you to everyone who played it and every one who's left a review, they help out so much!! Anyway.... Enough about that, let's move on to progress. Progress made in the last month:

• Since release the game has been updated with a gallery so all the scenes you've viewed can now be seen when you desire. That update is already out.
• Currently two of the next five stories are complete, with the beginning of each characters true routes starting after the second choice if you've made the right choices so far.
• Scenes revolving around the discovery of who you play as a character have been added with an option to change your name after the dream sequence. For those who wish to change it to something more fitting based on the revelation.
• A new possible love interest, Freya Valentina, has been added in phase three. Taking the total from two and a half to three and a half. (Aiko would be the half, already in the game she is kind of romantic interest, a relative kind of.)
• This new love interest opens a route for having both Aiko and Freya live with you at once. A three-person relationship opening.
• The true routes have been established and now have starting points giving me a total amount of how many endings will available. A total of 21 unique endings. (Ten of which will have varied outcomes based on a final choice.)
• In phase three you have the option to visit your home to see the woman/women you have living with you. Three people are currently available to move in (Aiko, Cherry and Alleyne) two more options being added this phase. (Freya, Freya and Aiko.) Some of these scenes have been completed.
• 1200 renders are currently complete. With more to be done still.
• Thousands more lines of code and scripting have been done.
• It is looking as if the phase three update will be done and hopefully rolled out by mid July. I do apologize updates take a while, but this is all created by me alone and I'd rather do it right the first time for you all.
• Five new outfits have been created for some of the woman. Three are showcased beneath. The other two you will see in the game.

That's as far as I have done so far which is a lot of work over the last month. Every day I'm working away to get this update out to you as soon as I can. The support has been very motivating for that. One last thing, many have asked how the story changes based on choices. I don't want to give the endings away but below is a diagram of how the story mapping in this game works. (If anyone can understand my rough design of it.) This is the pathing of one character, with Alleyne's route for that character below. All characters have paths similar to this with unique stories. As shown there is four different endings per character. The true route, a story purely mapped around that character if the right choices are made at the right time. A good ending, if they a aligned with you. A bad ending, if they dislike you. Alleyne's ending if you choose to pursue her.
This is if you keep that character to the end of the test. So you can travel others routes, see their stories up until the point you 'evict' them. (Only one true route can be taken at a time.) If your looking at the diagram and seeing four endings x 5 characters = 20 endings, but I said 21?... Well the last ending which won't be in the game released until the full version is the true Aldra route. Anyway that brings me to the end. Thanks for reading so far. Hopefully you all still enjoy the game and this shows work is being made. Any questions please email me or leave something in the discussion I try to get to them a much as possible. Thank you again Volunteers!

[ 2021-06-11 21:51:46 CET ] [ Original post ]