REC/REW dev update #15

Here we go!!! REC/REW, ver. 0.2.4! Now hitting the 150k words limit (actually breaking that barrier, LibreOffice says I'm some 100 words above 152k!) and a couple new ways our hero can die - both by the hands of the woman he'd love to call "mother"... yuck! Don't make me feel more sick than what I actually am!

This update deals with what I consider as the "corel" part of chapter 2. All content-related updates from now on should (hopefully!) include both good (ie. the main character lives and fulfills his objective) and neutral (ie. the main character lives but fails at reaching his goals) endings, in addition to the bad ones (ie. the main character dies =P)

There's also an additional intimate scene. I strive to give this sort of content kind of a "natural" feel, this last definition meaning I want these scenes to come off as something which might actually feel as a normal outcome of the events concerning two people who are deeply in love with each other. Another scene of this kind is going to be added as I roll out new content. For what matters chapter 2 that will mark the end of what you may come to call "ecchi", or "hentai", or "lewd", or... yeah whatever. Anyways, that's not the focus of my story.

Once again I'm putting all my efforts on the downloadable version of the game, leaving the works on the web-based demo to a later time. I'm seriously wondering what I should do with the latter: cutting it to chapter 1 only would mean having a demo showing almost nothing of the actual scope and themes of this visual novel - which is starting to take a rather "brainy" streak. On the other hand, including the full chapter 2 in the demo (I expect the full chapter 2 will lead this project near or perhaps even beyond the 200k range) would lead to something which is actually longer than a lot of "professionally made" visual novels I played. Which is not really relevant but still means a lot of work on my side (might be a good way to gain some time before I find myself in the position to start rolling out chapter 3 which already is about the same length of chapter 2 - too bad I consider it to be somewhere around 50% completion!!!).

Notwithstanding my evil ploys, I'll be taking a few days vacation from this project. SubaHibi has been waiting for too long on my wishlist, I want to take it head-on!

I'll bring my trusty laptop with me of course. And I also started keeping my scripts on GitHub so as to have them available at all times. Should my mind come up with something interesting I'll put it to the test.