November was very productive! This month was NaNoWriMo, or “National Novel Writing Month”. This is typically a challenge to write a 50,000 word novel during November that a lot of writers and authors choose to do (with varying levels of success). All that creative energy definitely spurred us on this month with our own challenge!

Check out our progress report:


Main Game Progress

Writing

Common Route:

  • Rough Outline: 100% ✓
  • Revised Outline: 100% ✓
  • Draft Script: 50%
  • Word Count: 79,506
    • Scenes: 50* /100

*Scenes are counted when they are ready for internal review, qualifying them as complete for the first draft.

We’ve finished 20 scenes this month, which means we’ve completed 50 scenes for our first draft! We’re halfway done! That’s a total of nearly 80,000 words so far, and these numbers are only going to get bigger!

We haven’t been without a small hiccups, but it looks like we’re slowly writing more and more each month. We’re eager to keep up that momentum.

Take a gander at some of our favourite unrevised snippets from this month: 

PRIYA: Morning, hotshot.
PRIYA: Wow, you look like you woke up on the wrong side of life…
PRIYA: … then fell out of bed and onto two fists. One for each eye.

The tall blonde woman folds her cards and rises from her seat in a huff.
SAMSON: (Chuckles) Clearly, you don’t share your wife’s sense of humour.
She rolls her eyes, throwing her bag over her shoulder.
AMANDA: Pipi, we’re leaving.
As she leaves, a small Pomeranian jumps off from Sam’s lap and scurries behind her.

PRIYA: Are our readers interested in intimidating, towering thug dad vibes?
MC: Are you?
PRIYA: I watch hour-long videos of a buttery-voiced Russian narrating a tournament between elephant beetles in captivity.
PRIYA: I am not the majority of our readers.

With her grasp firmly on me, I pull her out of the crowd. Her prim and proper appearance, a little more disheveled.
MC: That wasn’t so bad, right?
LEIGH-ANNA: You’re insane.
MC: Y'know, people do say that.

If this is the kind of content you like to see, we’d love for you to jump into our Discord server! We occasionally share much longer unrevised excerpts and discuss the game in much more depth with our community.


Behind The Scenes

Concepts

This is a potential face concept for auto and tech CEO, Samson Opeyemi. We’re trying to work around a few face refs, so as well-rendered as this sketch may be, we’re eyeing a few other facial structures. 

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Are you a fan of any of these? Let us know! We love to hear from you guys, and your support can have a direct influence on our design decisions. We want this to be something everyone enjoys.

Real Life

Coda’s been contracted for a sequential artist position with an animation and video game studio! Getting some industry-level experience on creating and managing production materials is nothing but a boon for the team going forward. She believes this will strengthen her composition and scene directing skills, which will help make Primrose Path and other projects going forward much more engaging.

A Short Break

The holidays are here, so we’ve decided we’re gonna take it a little easier this month! Our next update will be at the end of January, as we settle down for the festive period and college finals.

Self care is important to us, so we make a conscious decision to try and achieve a more balanced lifestyle. We’re far from perfect, but we encourage everyone else to do the same.
  
We hope to see you in 2020 with some big changes! ♥

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