Posted November 08, 2023 by conrif
#update
Please restart your game from the beginning. I have added an additional personality stat which will not be recorded if you continue from a later save.
This should be the last time you'll have to do this, apologies! Now on to the post :)
It's been a while!
After a solid few months of writing, I'm happy to announce that another update to Bladeweaver's demo is ready, finishing up Chapter One and beginning Chapter Two - which is a completely different beast compared to Chapter One, with more variation in scenes and two different versions of how things play out, depending on your chosen mentor. This update also includes a few bugfixes for earlier content that had been pointed out as well as some alterations to earlier scenes and stats. Bladeweaver's very much a beta at this point, so I'm going to be tweaking lines and maybe entire scenes long into development.
If you hated this wait between updates fear not, because the next update or two will come out quicker than this one as I start writing a simpler section of Chapter Two for a while - these will be much shorter than this update, though.
Bladeweaver's wordcount has gone from 29k as of the last update to over 80k total words in this one. That's more than 50,000 words written in the last two months, which I'm pretty happy with as a newcomer to writing IF.
I estimate that Chapter Two is around a third of the way done at this point (though that's liable to change depending on what I choose to write in the future), I expect the chapters to grow in size as the story continues and becomes more complex. This update also introduces the first of 4 romantic/platonic options that feature in Bladeweaver, which is Sam! This will serve as a little test run for how I want to do romance and friendship tracking in the future, exciting stuff haha.
I do hope you enjoy the update and, if you have any feedback, please don't hesitate to send it to me here, on itch or via the Bladeweaver Discord, where we have channels set up for bug reports and things like that: https://discord.gg/bVE5gy6BB8