#starburster-if

[starburster-if]

hi, do you have an estimate of when the demo will release or a progress update of where you are right now with it? also how much is planned out?

Hi! Sorry for the late reply, I’ve been quite busy the past few days. Now onto your question, I’m finished with the prologue which sits at roughly 25k words and am now onto chapter 1. I would like to publish the demo with both the prologue and chapter 1 to have quite a big bulk of the IF out.  And the whole story is pretty much planned out, although on a surface level. I like to go with the flow of things, so the prologue and chapter 1 is the only thing that is like fully fleshed out. And then when I’m done with chapter 1 I’ll start to flesh out chapter 2, and then so on with the rest of the chapters, if that makes sense. (There’ll be 15 chapters inc. prologue and epilogue), each chapter is planned with a rough idea of what’s gonna happen though. And regarding an estimate of a demo release, I honestly don't know since I have just started with chapter 1, but I am aiming for a release this year, hopefully end of autumn.

[starburster-if]

The intro got me very intrigued and I'll be waiting for the demo to drop :D If you don't mind questions about your IF, are you planning on having any poly and/or love triangle routes in the story?

I’m so glad to hear that! Genuinely. I was so scared when I posted the intro that I immediately closed the laptop and ended up throwing it (very lightly) on the bed afterwards, and not opening it or my phone for some time because I was so nervous. So I’m really happy to hear it got you very intrigued! 

And I don’t mind questions at all, so keep them coming :) 

Now to answer your question, anon: currently I haven’t thought of having any poly routes or love triangles in the story, moreso focusing on the ROs routes individually. But the IF is in such early development that it might very well change. I think the most likeliest that would happen then is a love triangle between some ROs rather than a poly route. 

[starburster-if]

There won't be any RO who is from, uhmm, normal world with pretty normal life? I mean, no celebrity or an aspiring celebrity?

When planning STARBURSTER I thought a lot about incorporating a/any RO from a more normal aspect of the world. But I always felt like it didn’t really fit in with the plot of the story, and I couldn’t really see it work no matter how I thought of it. This does not mean that there might never be a “normal” RO in the story, since this is after all in very early development, so we’ll see if my thinking process may change along the way. But for now there won’t be any. 

Thanks for the question, anon!