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I sure like the illustrations of Crawfurd from this article: https://newnaratif.com/john-crawfurd-and-anti-colonialism-in-sarawak/

He sure is looking good here. Also a good reference for me as I have no idea how to interpret his hair from his photo and portraits.

After a successful career as a colonial administrator, John Crawfurd forged a second career as a staunch anti-colonial activist, in particul

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Edited my game’s flowchart for the second time & ideas for additional secret endings

Decided to edit my flowchart yet again. Previously, I had wanted the game to branch around the start of 1825 because I felt that there won’t be enough time for the player to get Raffles to 5 hearts if he was going to leave Singapore permanently in 1823. However, I decided against it and decided to have most of the game branch in 1823 instead. The Farquhar branch will occur first, on 1st May, where he is either dismissed or not. Raffles’ branch will occur on 9th June, and determine if he leaves or not. To make up for the fact that the player would only have about 9-10 months in total to raise their affection with Raffles, I will be including additional choice moments that will help boost his affection.

Spoiler warning from this point onwards as this post covers additional secret characters I am planning to add:

Also, I have been thinking of adding ‘secret secret’ bachelors to the game, too. Yeah, there’s already a secret character in the game, and he is Crawfurd, but I was thinking more in lines of the secret routes from the Tokimeki Memorial Girl’s Side series, which I’m a huge fan of. I presume that most of my readers are not familiar with that series, so I will explain it.

The TMGS series features a cast of bachelors whom you can raise your affection with and get their endings normally, but every game also features at least 2 additional secret bachelors, whose endings you get not by raising their affections normally, but by fulfilling some secret requirements. The requirements differ depending on the character. For example, one of the games had a secret character whose ending you can get by answering all of his emails correctly, and another one requires you to go shopping lots of times and see all of his events. Another one even requires you to tap on him in the background to talk to him (talk about being hidden in plain sight!) every time you see him in the background.

If you fulfil all his ending requirements, your save/load screen will show the secret character next to the heroine in chibi form. You also have to not fulfil any of the ending requirements for any of the ‘normal’ bachelors.

These are what the chibi icons look like. The bottom two characters are secret characters, so they are just sort of in the background, behind the heroine, and not interacting with her. Also, the heroine uses the same default chibi pose shown before she gets close to anyone.

So, I was thinking that I can include Thomas Otho Travers and/or William Montgomerie, and/or Nathaniel Wallich in my game as the ‘secret secret’ characters (but only 1 or 2 of them, and not all 3, in order not to ruin the balance of the regular cast-to-secret secret cast ratio). Instead of raising their affection like what you need to do for the main cast, you have to fulfil special requirements. That would mean doing things like making a specific choice at certain decision points to raise their hidden stats. Their endings would go between Farquhar’s Secret Ending and the Canon Ending in the ‘Secret Charcter/Neutral Route’. Technically Farquhar’s Secret ending makes him a ‘secret secret’ character too. Meeting all their requirements change the icon you see for that save file on the save/load screen to an icon featuring the heroine with the secret secret bachelor. You also have to not meet the requirements for any other bachelor’s routes or endings, to get their endings.

It’s kind of interesting, though by sheer coincidence, that the secret secret characters I am picking for my game also just so happened to be another pair named Thomas and William. I bet some fans are going to think this was intentional, but it’s not.

However, this idea of having additional secret ideas will be a low priority matter. I will focus on getting all the routes for the main cast out before thinking about additional stuff like extra secret characters or the side stories.

Whatever it is, as I like the chibi icons shown in the save/load screen from the TMGS series, I am thinking of doing something similar for my game, too.

Here’s what I have in mind so far for each character. The chibi icons for each save file changes depending on the point you are at in the story:

- No Affection with anyone: Singapore is standing alone.

- Entered Raffles’ route: Raffles is pointing and explaining his plans to Singapore while she listens attentively.

- Entered Farquhar’s route (or requirements for the Farquhar Secret Ending are met): Farquhar is walking his dog while Singapore walks next to him.

- Entered the Love Triangle Route: Raffles and Farquhar are glaring daggers at each other, with Singapore in the middle, looking nervous or sweatdropping.

- Have attained at least 5 hearts with Crawfurd: Crawfurd is editing a newspaper with a quill pen while Singapore watches him.

- Fulfilled Travers’ ending requirements: Singapore is standing normally while Travers appears behind her in the background.

- Fulfilled Montgomerie’s ending requirements: Singapore is standing normally while Montgomerie appears behind her in the background.

- Fulfilled Wallich’s ending requirements: Singapore is standing normally while Wallich appears behind her in the background.

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