Good afternoon, good morning, and a hearty hello to the rest of the world's glorious timezones.

Over the past months of quiet tinkering we've being doing our best to get the game from being a short concept to the bigger and better stage we want it to be at. Since this is the first ever Weekly Report I'm making it extra chunky - don't feel bad if you lose focus halfway through, they won't all be this long!

Write and Write Again

First up is the biggest one: the writing. Shortly after coming back to work on the project a number of nasty narrative roadblocks reared their heads, and I had to find some sort of escape from the corner I had written myself into. Being me, I took the stupid nuclear option: recycle and start from scratch! This ended up being both the best and worst idea simultaneously, as it saved me from a not-so-great direction at the expense of a whole ton of development time. Indeed a good chunk of the changes are still being worked on, but I have no doubt that you all will enjoy meeting some of the new NPCs and playing through this longer story. I'll be sure to tease some of it in a future progress report~

Move over, Notepad

One of the biggest additions to the game is the Editor mode. Lord, if you told me in May of last year that I would be coding a full text editor from scratch just to write furry smut, I would have squawked a hearty laugh. There's no way I would bother doing something like that, right? Wrong! I think something inside me just got addicted to the challenge of it and before I knew it, I found myself doing all of my writing from within the game itself. (At this moment, every scene in the game was either written or edited using the Editor!)
Part of the unspoken difficulty in creating modding tools is making sure that they're easy to use. Hell, most games don't even have official modding tools to begin with, including every other furry text game that I'm aware of. I believe the time dedicated to make this editor clean and simple will pay off and give Revenir a truly unique edge in the genre, even if not everybody will use it. If you do have the spark to write within you, I 100% recommend giving the Editor mode a try when you get the chance.

F in the chat

Next, something that is sadly no longer on the featurelist: interacting with enemies during a fight. Although disabled in the public demo due to being unfinished, it was in fact later completed and fully written for each enemy. You were able to Seduce, Intimidate, or Persuade foes to see if they would respond with friendship, fear, or intimacy~. Ultimately the feature was scrapped during the combat rework (we'll talk about that!) since it just multiplied the amount of work we had to put in for every new enemy we wanted to add, and wasn't a solid enough mechanic to be worth that investment. Hopefully we can reuse that lovely icon somewhere else, hehe. (Big hearts to Twang for drawing it)

Well, I think that just about concludes what I can share for today. The list of changes is longer than I can bear to read in one sitting and grows longer all the time, so instead of another monolithic series of paragraphs next week's report will be a rapid-fire gauntlet showcasing all sorts of miscellaneous improvements - big and small. Hopefully after such an assault of information we will be more caught up so I can start getting in-depth about the combat rework and lovely new characters we're cooking up.

See you all next week, squawk!