We’re flipping the script… in more ways than one! We’re proud to show our month’s raw stats—first this time:
Main Game Progress
Common Route:
- Rough Outline: 100% ✔
- Revised Outline: 100% ✔
- Draft Script: 21k words
This month we wrote the common route draft script and ended up hitting a cozy word count of 21,000 or so. We’ve taken a fourth week off to review, address side projects, and manage miscellaneous company tasks among other things. The next few months will follow this routine and progress will be listed as a word count. We expect to hit the same word count goals at minimum.
So far we’ve written scenes from The Party, wanting to get into the head space of our men and how they’d interact with the different playable tones of our main character, Lynn Austen.
We’ve also started implementing some of the interactive elements in Lynn’s apartment. Want to watch TV? Channel surf and pick up on world lore—and maybe some crucial clues for characters. It pays to know what’s going on in Primrose Path!
Here’s a couple of our favorite unrevised draft snips from this month:
My eyes dart to the Prince so I can apologize for the misunderstanding, but his gaze pierces through me as he laughs.
PRINCE: Oh, don’t be such a tease.
PRINCE: Are you getting coy over what you shared about Priya?
PRINCE: (smiling) Because that would be silly… and unadvised.
EZRA: Old royal buildings. It used to belong to a runaway Prussian heiress—a distant cousin of the Romanovs.
He freezes as the panel clicks open and slowly reveals a small stairwell.
EZRA: Allegedly.
Pique your interest? You don’t have to wait for one every month: we share more unrevised draft snippets in our Discord server. Join if you’d like to peep longer excerpts and chat with us over them!
Behind The Scenes
CGs in VNs Survey
We had questions about CGs and wanted to know what fans of the visual novel community thought about them, the role they play, examples they enjoyed, and more. We received over 200 responses from folks across different platforms—all this is in addition to our previous survey which received over 100! There’s only two of us, so it’ll be a while to get through all the data, but we’re excited to interpret and release them in separate posts coming soon!
Writing GitScrum Board
We’ve had this feature in our Discord server for much longer, but now that we’re writing our script draft for the common route, we’ve decided to open up our writing GitScrum board publicly. Now you lot passing by can peek into our progress on scenes at any point. Please, feel free to hold us accountable for how much we get done weekly. Your watchful eyes spur us on.
Code Blog
We’re keeping up a mini-blog on side projects and developments! Elm will be talking about developing with Unity, starting with basic knowledge and things to consider during the early stages of production. If you’re interested in hearing about 2D narrative development in Unity via our projects from start to finish, you can stop by Elm’s coding blog!
Real Life
Coda’s back in college this semester, and she’s decided to pick up a 3D Game Graphics class to learn some asset creation basics. The class will teach her how to make a low-poly asset pack for creating environments, interiors, and props in Maya 2019 to explore in the Unity game engine. Quiet Days’ method for creating backgrounds in Primrose Path uses 3D modeling as a base for our environments, which is later rendered and post-processed in 2D. This is the main reason Primrose can exist at it’s current scale! Elm is the one with the BA (Hons) for 3D, but Coda wanted to take some of the weight off of Elm for efficiency. Wish her the best; so far she’s had a great first day!
Lore Snippets
BŌGLŌ
BŌGLŌ is a trendy meal replacement drink in the universe of Primrose Path. Although many consumers are skeptical about its appearance, the bioluminescent algae smoothie has become a popular drink among its eccentric audience. Creator and CEO of BŌGLŌ, Chouette Lars is a contentious figure in the natural holism movement. Many prominent holists denounce her for appropriating the ideology in her pseudoscientific and capitalist ventures. Lars’ health claims for the drink have been found inconclusive by food scientists and nutritionists. BŌGLŌ glows brighter when agitated, is allergen-free, may stain teeth, and comes in such flavors as “Pasta La Vista” and “Cake or Death”.
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