Hi again, and hope you’re all doing okay out there – 2020 as a whole has been some year. Probably best not to dwell on it too much here and jump into the ESR news instead. It’s better news, I promise!
Here’s the progress since May:
- Pass 1, main writing: 83% (+0)
- Pass 2, scripting: 74% (+2)
- Pass 3, effects: 38% (+0)
- Pass 4, minor writing: 36% (+6)
Okay, so if you’ve been following the Twitter updates, you’ll see that the numbers haven’t gone up in the last 5-6 weeks. That’s the not-as-good news. I’ve been doing some reviewing and cleanup of previously written days, mainly concerning Koishi advice, but generally these weeks have been a bit more busy for me.
The good news is that LTalon, one of our main writers, is back! After some discussions, we’ve recovered some important plans that we had for the endings, and pieced together a few new ideas as well. We’ve also drawn up a more complete picture of how all the stats and affection levels will be used throughout the game.
So in terms of outlining and planning, there won’t be as much reinventing of wheels as I had previously feared, and this definitely boosts our chances of putting together a complete game eventually. I’ll leave it to LT to talk more about the writing (and his plans in general) in a follow-up post.
It’s not just LT putting the ‘Dan’ in Dai-Sukima Dan this update. Sigma (now usually known as Mars) is still familiar with Ren’Py and found a few free weekends for ESR, so he worked on some story scripting and coding cleanups. Like the rest of us, he may not have a ton of free time to spend on the game generally – but having someone else who’s comfortable with the scripting/coding gives us more options on splitting up that part of the work.
On another note, we got a message on the forum about some broken music-download links in old blog posts. This reminded us that the old forum had a public downloads section for ESR music, and we hadn’t made a replacement for that after migrating our site in 2018. So we’ve set up a new music downloads page here.
You may have heard about a certain other game series turning 35 years old, but over here we’re celebrating Touhou’s 25th anniversary! Here’s to many more years of dazzling danmaku games.
With that, it’s screenshot time:
I’m glad that things are finally looking up for the writing parts of the project. Though at the current time it has been just a few days short of 6 months since the last update, when updates are usually 4 months apart. Hope nothing bad happened, because considering the state of the world, it’s not hard to imagine the worst.
@Nova Yeah, we haven’t has as much spare time/energy as we’d hoped in these past few months, so it seemed best not to force an update for the time being. We’re doing all right though, thanks for the concern!
Ok. Good to know. Hope some spare time comes not only for the game but also so you can enjoy your lives. 2021 is only looking down and may end up worse than 2020, and the world itself is in a terrible state. The fact that you could work on this at all and still tried to get more done is worthy of respect. Thanks for the dedication you’ve shown in completing this game and I can’t wait to play the next demo or full release!
Same goes here! I cant wait to play the next demo, oh and btw thank you so much for the dedication you’ve shown us and that you still are working on this game!