It’s April! We released Common Route earlier this month and have been gathering feedback and bug reports. In May, I’ll be focusing on writing.

Writing Update

Green is the proportion of the word count that is considered stable and doesn’t need to be revised. Yellow is the proportion of the word count that, while written, needs to be rewritten or heavily revised.

The routes are estimated to be anywhere from 50k - 80k words each.

I work best when I’m creating the story fluidly and holistically, so currently, I’m writing all the routes simultaneously. Whichever route is finished first will be the one that is released. Right now, that’s looking like Beckett or Leaf’s route.

(I’m super psyched for True Route. Some really cool plans happening.)

Debrief: Common Route Release

We got some amazing feedback and encouragement for the common route release! You can check out some really thoughtful posts on the forums here: http://forums.studiotheophilus.com/topic/spoilers-common-route-thoughts/

Here’s some features and fixes that we plan to implement in the next route:

• Bug Fix: There’s a strange interaction with the affection bar where it doesn’t register below a certain minimum amount. This results in choices raising affection, but that affection doesn’t register in the bar until a certain point.

• Bug Fix: “Skip to next choice” is a buggy feature, and unfortunately, after some checking, is very difficult to fix. In light of this, we’ll be switching “skip to next choice” button to a standard “toggle skip” button.

• Unconfirmed! Feature: We will be investigating the option to assign a short name to save files. This is not confirmed.

• Adjustment: Several more terms will be added to the text input segments in light of feedback.

• Adjustment: Several minor continuity errors will be fixed.

• Adjustment: The Journal feature is difficult to find and was missed by the majority of the playerbase. It will instead be added to the quick menu or the ADV screen as its own button. (Currently it’s in the circular Extras panel in the lower-right corner of the Stat Menu screen.)

Please leave a comment if we missed anything!

Announcement: Social Media Break

In order to hone in on writing, I’ll be staying off of social media. This means that Studio Theophilus will not be updating on Twitter/Instagram/Tumblr/Facebook until next month, nor will there be responses to tweets or DMs. If you have any questions or issues, the live chat on the website will still be operational, and I’ll do my best to respond as fast as possible!

Thank you for your support! Hope to bring you more content soon!

— Luna Chai