#peripety dev

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you're all in for a treat

[gamingperipety]

Hey Maki! Hope you're well! I had a question regarding the cast of ros. How much time do we get to spend with everyone? I know that in most ifs certain characters get more screentime than others and I understand that sometimes it's hard for authors to balance things out, but it would be nice if we could spend somewhat equal amount of time with everyone. This is not a demand or anything tho!! I'm just curious and I'm really invested in this conscept so I was only wondering what your plans are about this.

Hello Anon, and no worries. You didn't come off as demanding. It's a pretty valid question. To give you the answer:

You'll get to spend plenty of time with everyone, or more precisely, the plot forces you to take certain amounts of time with each RO. There's also 'bonus' content, in which everyone has the choice to go and spend time with different ROs. I have not created a lot of those however (in the sense that I have not overdone it), because I, personally, don't like missing out on content and I'd like to get to know everyone to some extent before I start cherry picking the characters. 

I myself have a hard time getting attached to characters in general, so, since in a sense I’m writing this game for my own enjoyment as well, I’ll give everyone plenty of room to explore each love interest, and not only in the romantic sense, but in a general sense as well. I feel very sad when I finish an IF and I didn’t get to spend time with the rest of the cast because I was too focused on trying to score with the RO I picked. 

I think this is also one of the main reasons why it’s taking me a bit to publish Peripety. I want to be satisfied with what I write and especially with my characters in relation to MC and vice versa. I don’t want people to feel forced to interact or avoid certain characters. I want people to genuinely pick each interaction with the ROs not to get points, but because it feels right to do so. I know it’s a game and I’m maybe thinking a bit too much into it, but for me, it’s first and foremost a story, and I want the reader/player to enjoy it as much as I am when I’m writing it. 

If people do end up skipping on characters, I want them to do so because they dislike them, not because they didn’t get the opportunity to get to know them so now they’re going for the first character they met because that character appears to: 

a. Either have more depth than others or 

b. Because the reader gets to know them for longer. 

Tldr; You get to spend plenty of time and interact with everyone, no RO will be left with minimal interaction and no RO will dominate in comparison to others. Of course there are chapters where certain characters play a bigger role than others, but that will be compensated accordingly.

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I have decided that I will track if mc is touch averse (or not) for each character individually because I love pain.

As a touch averse person myself, there are specific people that I do not mind being in physical contact with, so I thought, "why not bring the experience to the game?"

I know that it's a trend to just select it in a general scale sometime around the beginning of the game, which is very understandable, and then run with whichever option for the rest of the game (most of the time and/or until romance starts). But I wanted to spice things up a little. It just didn't feel right for me personally.

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Thank you to everyone who has sent me suggestions about possible personality combos for mc <3 I have not answered some of them but they're in my inbox and I'm taking them into account when writing flavoured text.

I got quite a few things done today; the relationships page was a real challenge but I'm very happy with how it turned out.

I'll code some more passages from chapter one tomorrow. I've imported around 10k of text so far and I'm only just getting started.

Thank you for sticking around and have a lovely day/night <3

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I think that piling all characters in one 'relationships' page is going to be a bit too much, so I'm contemplating on giving everyone their own page; which includes their description, your relationship to them and how they feel about you. It's, pretty much, still being worked on, but I really don't like cluttered pages so I'll try to make everything as neat as possible.