The Tree Has Branches - 6/16/2018

Hello and welcome to another update!

Today I want to open up and talk a little bit about the branches and routes at the end of Day 1 (since that's where my work has been for the past week or 2).

Here are a few quick previews:

Abby's first scene of the Day 1 ending branches

Erisa using her laptop as part of one of the ending scnees
Content on the screen up to your imagination... for now

There were certain perks to dating Amanda...

After the girls finish shopping for their trip, they'll head home and start packing. I know it's been all "Chrissy, Chrissy, Chrissy!" (with a little distraction from Nina) up until this point, but once she's home, Erisa will have some options as to who to start pursuing. Some of the decisions up until this point may gain you some favor with Chrissy, but you'll still have the full choice of who to pursue at this point.

Now, while Day 2 will start to open up a number of other possibilities, Erisa's options are mostly familiar faces at this point:

• Chrissy (of course), who's just a room away
• Abby, Erisa's first girlfriend, who's kind of had a rekindled interest in her
• Amanda, Erisa's recent (bitchy/controlling) ex
• None of the above - in case you hate seeing sex and/or want to keep yourself pure for girls to be introduced in day 2 (which may offer an advantage with some of them... eventually - I haven't really gotten that far)

These characters are already built into the Day 1 preview (primarily using the "think about" function), and will be more directly referenced/acknowledged in the story prior to this point. I feel that having a few characters with pre-existing ties to the protagonist (especially ties that are romantic) make for realistic possibilities here.

As a reminder, here they are in some of their simplest forms:

BUT - Not only will you have some options to choose from in terms of who you'd like to start romancing, they'll each have their own path. For example, Amanda played a highly dominant role in Erisa's recent relationship with her, but if Erisa decides to give her a second chance, will she put up with her boss-bitch attitude? Or try and turn the tables on her?

The choice will be up to you!

Anywho, the bulk of the work done recently has still been in renders, but here's where things are:

• Emma's Closet scenes complete
• Abby end of day 1 scenes complete
• Amanda end of day 1 scenes in progress (~40% complete, with the Erisa dom path at about 50% complete and Erisa sub path at 10%)

Work remaining to be done on Day 1:

• Finish Amanda day 1 ending scenes
• Finish Chrissy day 1 ending scenes
• There will be two sets of scenes for this, since one will be available in the "None of the above" scenario that will offer an alternative Chrissy scene (or, again, no content if you want to avoid it)
• Program in renders/write dialog
• Need to do this for basically everything after the demo, but it shouldn't take nearly as long as rendering since I'm a quick writer and I basically have my storyboard ready to go
• Spriting and map development as necessary
• I already have the map and sprites set up for all locations except maybe 1 or 2, but I'll have to analyze/adjust when I get into the programming/writing

That's all for now! I will be taking some time away soon due to other obligations (the real world never stops...), so expect the next update to come in early July, though I'll be working on the game whenever possible!