News?

OK. I have the script done for both the big event and the little side event. I just have to do the graphics for both of them. I will probably do the side event once and test it to make sure that it works. If all goes to plan I should be done with that in less than 2 weeks, assuming that I do not get distracted... again. 

Also in the future I will be doing a collection of side stories and alternate paths in a separate game. It will be called From the Eclipse: Into Darkness. The story for From the Eclipse itself is darker in tone, but it has a lot of light hearted and funny, but as you will see in this v0.1.1, there is a bit of a darker side to it and the main character. It is not a huge darker side, but I wanted to give him a little bit of one to make him not so one dimensional.

Into Darkness will take place in the same world, but each story will be separate from the main story. Some of them may actually interweave, but as of right now most will not, though one of them will be an alternate start to the game that was originally planned, but I changed (several times) to make it an introduction to the characters and to get it started. These stories are going to be on the much darker side of Ericlys and its history. 

But this will have to wait a bit. I want to get a little more of the story done, a few more characters introduced, and I really need to get the navigation issues situated. I still plan on going to a basic menu. It will be cleaner and allow me to add content easier/faster. I like my map and was proud of myself that I was able to make it work, but it is too clunky to work with and very limited.  In fact, I may even rework part of the Estate navigation as well, but I really like it right now, and it will stay the way it is for the foreseeable future, though anything new will be added as a basic menu. After playing a bunch of other VNs to get an idea of what I should do, I find that a lot of the popular ones, or ones that I tend to enjoy, use just a basic map system. 

So, in closing, still look forward to the release of v0.1.1 in the first week of October 2021!

NOTE: Even if I start working on Into Darkness now (I am not) it will not be ready to release until next year sometime since I am focusing my available time on the base game.  The exception to this will be if enough people are going to be wanting to see the darker stories, then I may consider doing a few of them earlier. 

-Erochaser