My mind is slipping, the black pit of dispair entrenches ever closer on my soul, my brain is fuzzy with the incomprehensible complexity of the tangled web of endless permutations I have made in microsoft power point.

Thats a bit of an exageration, but also partly true. Putting this project together has consumed me, I pulled an all-nighter Monday and by all estimates I’m going to do the same tonight, and I still have my doubts whether it will be done. Its too big, the amount of connections and duplicate slides is too much to keep track of, for every choice you make a new steam has to be built that connects back to the original if you change your mind later, but also has to be sure not to refer to something you never did. Optional dialouge creates its own new streams because you can ask it at multiple times. Also there is no end, no segway into the ending’s (which also still arnt finished, but thankfully not my job).

Consessions will have to be made, streamlining it is the only way its not going to turn out a broken mess.

Sadly this means some slides will only have one option to progress to the next slide, something I dearly wanted to avoid. In a story with choice and player agency having no choice when logically you should is very poor, I believe that taking away someone’s choice can be very impactful in the right circumstances, such as one of our endings where failure to make correct choices in a previous segment (the one thats still half made) results in only having one option because you failed to qualify for the other one. I’m rather disapointed, but at least it will work.

Also, after watching each over 20 times the poor acting, inconsistant accent and awkward body movements of my video-scenes is burned into my brain and I loathe it. Hopefully its flaws are less apperent for a first-time viewer, and apart from the lack of wet hair and body (It was way too cold), the costume design is still very good in my opinion, almost exactly the same as my concept art.