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Jonathan's Adventure: Bickery Edition
2 years ago

Seb's Devlog #75: 4/16/2023

What happened?


Oh look, it's the 75th devlog, yay.

So far, I've rewritten the intro.

The changes in the mainly include:
-A change in Sasara's dialogue. In the original exchange with Jonathan, she weirdly says "no reason" when she states to go to her bunker. I changed the dialogue to be more clear about what the bunker, in which it is her home and where her party will be hosted at.
-The faces used in the dialogue. For some reason, I or the original team didn't bother changing the faces at all, which isn't exactly out of the ordinary, because I drew the party's faces first, then drew each member's individual expressions after the intro was written. But for at least a touch-up, I changed the faces used in it.
-Pauses in the dialogue are used to best emphasize in the first cut scene that Jonathan is tired. I mean, who speaks like they're ready to go once they are awaken by a phone call?
-Nerd's dialogue is COMPLETELY rewritten to be grammatically consistent. That means actual punctuation, capitalization, and such.
-The detail about what book Nerd is holding on to scrubbed off. This is because of Chekhov's gun, if Nerd mentions the book is a fan fiction of a character that exists in the game that can actually breathe, then that would therefore mean that Jonathan would have some popularity due to being related with Kabi as her "boyfriend" (I put in quotes because that detail is linked with her friendship status. So having it low means you're just friends with her, and having it high means a potential marriage between the two.). And because the plot doesn't revolve around that detail, of course it had to be cut out.
-New added dialogue after Jonathan beats up the Nerd. This is mainly to tell you that you got a bunch of new items. But I've also been thinking of an additional scene where Jonathan would eat something if you didn't use the item before you encounter Nerd and his gang.

And speaking of writing, there's another thing that isn't related to the intro:

In one elevator scene, I had to rewrite one. The original scene was basically Kabi asking if anyone in the gang has heard of Zane's Desperate Struggle for Lesbian Pussy. But I changed the scene entirely so that not only did it incorporated the friendship conditions for it, which ultimately changes how the scene is conveyed via text, being that how Kabi looks at you and what emotions you feel from that, but also is much more appealing to me, because she's bringing up 4 games and she's indecisive of what games she wants to play, hence why she looks at Jonathan. Which is also based on my experience, because sometimes I don't know what to play, and this isn't the first time I put a bunch of stuff from my personal life for the characters, but it's not so much of the matter of plot, it's more or less little details about the character's lives. But it's possible for the reference TO come back, albeit more subtly, since I've only gotten like two choices down?

That's all folks, see you on the 23rd.



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