Conviction Chronicles blog post #19 - Revamped Prologue

 This update is a little smaller than the other ones, but it adds a bit. Some aspects are smaller for bug fixes and others are much bigger.

The update should be live when this is posted.

Branching Paths in the prologue

A big criticism for the prologue was the story was too linear in a game that is meant to be extremely dynamic.  So what I did was add actions with an energy system for the prison cell Tina is in, and to add different options based on what fits in the moment.

I also tried to make every single part of the cell room usable and impactful after the intro day in some shape or form. 

Adding to the start scene and some edits

The start scene with the assistant was moved to start when pressing "New Mystery" for the first time. Once the prologue is done, a new scene is showcased making it feel more like a whole package. I also edited it a bit with some aspects to make it a little better with removing some bugs and more. I removed the minigames from the prologue since they don't exactly fit with the prologue, even if I wanted to show them off a little. Some aspects are quality of life with the highlighting of certain text.

13 endings

Everything added leads to 12 new endings. The original ending is still there. Some of these endings you have to be heavily specific with your 3 free actions and the trial actions. Others you don't need to do as much. Some choices lead to red hearings while others are more impactful. Others are more subtle with it's information. I do hope this will be great for the demo as it will give more people of a reason to replay the prologue. 

Anything else?

I might edit it some more, since most of the original text is still there, but I'll have to move on eventually to investigating/fixing some other bugs and adding a massive dialogue system eventually. It's very important to make the prologue the best it can be, and I hope these additions improve things greatly. The trial images are mostly placeholders still, I'll have to change them sooner than later. There is a lot that still needs to be ironed out a bit, but so far it's going well. 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Conviction Chronicles blog post #18 - Improved Title Screen

 This is a smaller blogpost, but it does have enough info to warrant it. New Game Introduction When booting the game for the first time, there is a small introduction for "setting up the game's profile." This is mainly so I can set up biases. This is an idea that Gnosia does where items like what color the player chooses impacts the gameplay in very subtle way with enforcing a starting bias.  This also introduces a character that I have planned out for a couple of months now with some 2D sprites. Their 3D model is in the title screen itself. I don't want to go too in-depth with them, but their design has a bunch of symbolism for their role as an assistant type figure which might come apparent later on. This scene only happens once, you can answer the questions, or actively try to deny answering them which loads the default answers. I might have to move it around or change it up later on, and I do have to add the new bias system in based on the answers.  Title Screen I...
Read more

Conviction Chronicles blog post #17 - Evidence gathering implemented

 This is going to be in an update to the demo, but there won't be as much text for this as most of the content done is backend code, which is more technical and doesn't much more to talk about for the average person. Evidence With evidence gathering, I had to go back to everything to add support for slots to be used to store certain information for the player and each living character. Basically it's a very dynamic way of gathering information and pushing it to the storage whenever possible. Lots of checks to make sure it runs well, and I still need to re-review it later to make sure it's doing every thing of evidence correctly. Evidence is stored between >The Main evidence text >Description for the evidence >The date >tags The date is separate since certain tags, like getting evidence from someone else, uses numbers and storing a date in that same slot can make some errors where code might think a tag of getting evidence from someone else means a date inste...
Read more

Conviction Chronicles blog post #12 - Demo is online

 Link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3908320/Conviction_Chronicles/ Why the delay? I had to make some smaller changes and bug fixes, but another aspect was the Steam Review where I had to remove one of the options that could have been done when someone was sleeping to make the review process faster and to update the content survey to be more specific.  Anything else? I have to send some emails promoting the demo to see where it goes and to see how much traction the demo brings. The main game is currently being worked on, and I would say I'm around 50% done with the main flashbacks at this point. It will be interesting to see where the game goes from here, since before the game wasn't being shown in the Steam Discovery Queue, but once it does start being shown there, it will be interesting to see how much of an impact it has on the overall visibility. 
Read more