Hello all,
So, I am only realizing now that I forgot to do a progress report on January 3rd, so it has been a while! 😅 I think between getting Wayfarer’s Q1 out and announced, and getting ahead on my social media for the next three months it just somehow completely slipped my mind. However, I didn’t really have much to say on Jan 3 anyway other than the plan for the first half of the month, which is now over.
Things I Did:
I was digging around in some of my old Wayfarer folders and came across one from June 2020 (almost 5 years ago now wow). I can tell how old it is without looking at the date because of the font I was using and also that I hadn’t switched to working in dark mode yet. What I was trying to put together at the time was a list of different elements I wanted in the character creator, and there are some surprising similarities and differences between what I was thinking of then and what I have now.
CC’s are weird, especially in inte...
2025-01-15 18:00:01 +0000 UTC
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2025-01-13 18:00:02 +0000 UTC
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The following dialogue occurs on a favourable Solarath path with low Lethal...
2025-01-11 01:35:27 +0000 UTC
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Kit has seen many things in her life time, but even she has to admit this one is new.
Moments ago, she flew off the stage in a glorious exit that had her levitating above the company and disappearing into the heavens in a flash of smoke and light. Now she stands in the darkened wings with her hands on her hips, sweat clinging uncomfortably to the inside of her silks and brocades, her scalp aching from the headpiece pinned firmly to her ...
2025-01-08 18:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Hello all!
It is the start of a new year and I’m excited to announce Wayfarer’s new development plan. Unlike previous years, I will be doing quarterly roadmaps so I can be more transparent about how things are going and make adjustments should I fall behind.
The goal for Q1 (January to March) is to finish the Episode 3 finale. This finale is important—it is not just the end of an episode, but the end of Act 1 and represents a major story shift. Some things will come to a head, some things will be resolved, and y...
2025-01-02 22:19:12 +0000 UTC
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The following dialogue occurs on a favourable Solarath path.
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2024-12-27 17:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Content Warning: this story contains depictions of drug use & mature subject matter
A curl of smoke rises through the hazy crimson light.
Veyer watches it float away through unfocused eyes. The reed dangles between their long fingers, held at arms length above their face. The lit end glows like a dying ember, a spark of orange pulsing within the charred black. Wa...
2024-12-25 18:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Hi all,
Happy holidays!
The year is coming to a close and this will be my last progress report for 2024.
There have been the usual ups and downs; I am very pleased with my decision to release more Episode 3 content when I did this spring. After attempting to do more regular updates, I did hit a wall in July as I started writing a new section and ran out of things to update with. I think it was a reminder that though I would love to be able to update the alpha build more regularly, Wayfarer’s scope doesn...
2024-12-20 20:03:30 +0000 UTC
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So, a question I get a lot is “why isn’t your game on the app store?”
This is a very fair question. ChoiceScript games are easily accessible through the app store if they are published with Choice of Games or Hosted Games; many VNs have an app version or were designed specifically to be played on mobile. Outside of that, a lot of people read on their phones, whether it’s the news or eBooks or fanfic, or any number of other things. It might seem a little odd from the outside to make such a text-heavy game and not make it a...
2024-12-18 18:00:05 +0000 UTC
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2024-12-16 18:00:06 +0000 UTC
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[CHOICE] 3. “Tell me something, Quirinus. Ho...
2024-12-13 17:00:11 +0000 UTC
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The door to the audience chamber closes behind her with the sound of a thousand drums beating a single beat.
Zenaida’s breath catches in her throat. Her heart pounds in her chest—thump thump thump—in time to her footfalls against the marble floors. Though she has treaded here many times in her life, it was always as the daughter of the archon and heir to House Anaxas. Now she returns not as the heir, but a savant of the G...
2024-12-11 17:00:12 +0000 UTC
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Hi all,
Happy December!
This was my November to do list—I’ve finished everything I had planned outside of the December character scenarios for Patreon, which I am lagging behind on a bit. I have next week’s scenario mostly done and should be wrapping it up this weekend.
Additionally, I am well into the thick of it with Episode 3’s finale. The branch that took up most of November is now finished and I am n...
2024-12-06 23:33:10 +0000 UTC
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You glance to the side, gaze sweeping the premise, sea...
2024-11-22 23:00:05 +0000 UTC
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On days he cannot think, Rhodarth returns to the sea.
Not that Rona’s shores amount to much. Murky, brackish water with several centuries’ worth of refuse littered across the ocean floor. Tumultuous tides that crash against jagged rocks and bits of surfacing shipwrecks, threatening to pull any swimmers down, down, down into the abyss. It’s dangerous to swim here, even for a melusine. No melusine in their right mind would. They wou...
2024-11-20 17:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Hi all,
I hope you have been having a good month!
Writing is motoring along this month. I am mostly recovered from Covid and I’ve been pushing to finish off these last few sections. It’s been a lot of work and it has taken a very long time, but I can finally set this one aside and work my way back up the tree. It’s hard to express exactly how entangled the Episode 3 finale will be—this is a case where the boss fight and final conflict is much more in the words you say rather than in the actions you take. Depen...
2024-11-16 00:30:01 +0000 UTC
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Wayfarer has been around for a few years now, and I thought I’d share some of the weird and whacky situations I’ve had to fix over time. There are a lot of benefits to working with Twine and SugarCube (Twine is the engine, SugarCube is the format). There are many resources, helpful guides, templates and macros that have been created communally over the years. Usually when I want the game to do something specific, there is a macro available that can assist with it so I don’t have to create it from scratch.
One part of...
2024-11-13 17:00:06 +0000 UTC
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2024-11-12 18:00:01 +0000 UTC
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2024-11-11 18:00:04 +0000 UTC
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“Is it arrogance or is it confidence? I know my plac...
2024-11-08 20:50:18 +0000 UTC
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Snow falls from a grey sky—cold, dull, lifeless.
He has heard more bards than he can count wax poetic about the beauty of the Artanisian wilderness, but in truth he cannot see it. Perhaps there is something in ice-clad mountains and evergreen forests blanketed in white, but all of it is meaningless when he cannot see the sun. The cold here would be the end of many, but with his magic it is of no concern.
No. The cold is no...
2024-11-06 17:00:05 +0000 UTC
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2024-11-05 18:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Hi friends,
Happy November!
The past two weeks have both been very busy and also not busy at all. I unfortunately caught Covid after my trip and I have been quite sick. I’m over the worst of it, but I am still recovering (the brain fog is not great and at any given moment I feel like a truck has run me over). I am trying to rest as much as I can; last time I had Covid the lingering symptoms caused the writing of Episode 3 to be significantly delayed and I don’t want that to happen again.
I am sticking ...
2024-11-01 20:16:13 +0000 UTC
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2024-10-25 17:00:10 +0000 UTC
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The following preview is of the Episode 3 finale. If you have not played the alpha build up to the very end of its current content, or if you would like to avoid major spoilers for how things play out, you may want to skip this post. As the finale is very dependent on companion and approval levels, prior actions, and player choice, the following is only a sample of what may occur on some routes.
Out of the corner of your eye, you see Allegra’s mouth open as if she was about to interrupt. Yo...
2024-10-25 13:00:10 +0000 UTC
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Hi all!
I hope you are having a fantastic October. It was Canadian Thanksgiving this past weekend, and I was fortunate to spend some time with my family on the other side of the country and attend my sister’s wedding. I am a little under the weather now from all the travelling and excitement, but I am back to work and continuing with Episode 3’s finale.
This month I have also continued reconfiguring my work flow, as well as how I run social media. I am very excited to announce that bonus content will be back start...
2024-10-18 17:00:09 +0000 UTC
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