Yes! The Made Marion Mega-Guide (an art book/lorebook/game guide) will go on sale with the game's full release. I'm always glad when a Robin Hood fan finds us, welcome!
Thank you so much! I'm glad Steam regional pricing was useful for you. As a Canadian, I understand currency conversion pain.
We're busy with Will's route now and yes, Layton and a mystery love interest will be released as a standalone DLC game after the main game is out!
If you haven't seen the love interest PoV scenes in the Extras menu yet, there's one between John and Robin that I rather like. Thanks again for your support!
We'll have a game guide/lorebook/art book available closer to our final launch, and I'm sure folks will write some achievement guides as well. I do plan to make a guide for the free choices you can make that can change your experience but don't lead to a specific ending (for example, the choice whether to write an angry or diplomatic letter to Marion's father). I should have that in place when I release Will's route.
There will be plenty of John in Will's route - he's overprotective of his brother, after all! We won't be seeing as much of the Sheriff this time. He was the primary antagonist in Robin's route, but somebody else plays that role for Will. Gotta change things up, eh?
It looks like you may have had a hiccup while downloading. I tested the archive with native Windows unzip, 7zip, and WinRAR (most recent non-beta version) and all of them extracted the files without issue. Try re-downloading?
I do know Geoff is a huge fan favourite, but I promise that's not why he's the final route. It just makes the most sense to go last due to plot reveals and also, writing the Geoff/Gui split route is going to kill me (but I'm also very excited for it).
They do, though it will have more divergence than the other routes. It's not a love triangle route so much as a question of who Marion decides to trust while unraveling the truth behind Geoffrey's decisions as Lord of Nottingham.
No, there are two non-romanceable characters that Marion can have brief romantic encounters with (one in the prologue, one in Sherwood Common) before she gets involved with the romanceable characters. Doing so does not negatively affect your relationships in any way, but may change some dialog with the non-romanceable characters later on.
Once you pick a love interest at the end of the common route, you can't kiss anybody else *except* in Geoffrey and Gui's shared route, where the actual romance choice comes later on.
There aren't many choices in the game that negatively affect your romances. There are a few choices that let you specifically choose to end a romsnce (leading to the Sherwood friendship ending for Robin, John, or Will) and occasionally a bad ending choice will be relationship related. Otherwise, your choices lead to one of two good endings per route!
Sorry about the delays from last year (the whole team got knocked down by major illness and other IRL issues). We're getting ready to beta our first route now, and we'll be releasing them one by one in Early Access (buy once, get access to everything as it's released - only full routes will be released so no cliffhangers) starting this fall.
Thanks for sticking with us, we're very excited to be turning out the game at last!
Funnily enough, I've found myself enjoying the writing much more freely in the past couple days since finally being able to describe what happened last year to y'all. It's been a journey to try to understand what was going on in my brain, but I recently read some excellent accounts by others who have gone through long Covid or know people who are going through Long Covid and don't realize what it is doing to their cognitive faculties. That really set off a light bulb with me, and I was able to look back on myself last year and go, "Oh. YEAH."
Though I'm not prepared to outsource the writing (I think that actually might be more work for me than doing the writing myself, because the stories and secrets in this game are deeply entwined with one another), I have been increasingly willing to outsource programming tasks. Our wonderful coding assistant Shawna will be coding in our Extras section soon, and I've also brought on the fabulous Jaime Scribbles to do some smaller coding commissions for us.
Thank you so much! It's hard not to feel the guilty feels, but I'm trying to turn them into the drive to make sure I sit down and write at least a little every day. I am profoundly grateful that I am no longer sitting on the couch staring at the wall.
Thank you so much! I totally understand the budget issue. I can't back all the projects I want, either. It means the world to us just to have excited fans!
The content is the same, don't worry! The prices might be different in different regions because the base price on itch.io is in USD and on Backerkit the base price is in CAD (Canadian dollars - I live in Canada and Kickstarter/Backerkit require me to use my own currency for the base price). Different sites use different currency conversion formulas, too, and the Euro may have lost value between then and now (North America is going through massive inflation issues). So the big difference is probably found in currency conversion formulas between USD/CAD/Euro. Please feel free to take advantage of whichever is the best deal for you, which it looks like you did!
