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600,000 words and she likes dogs better???
Wow inspiration must have struck hard for get the author to the finish line!
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I love all our authors, but as it is my project, I am just proud as pie of Jordan for writing this game. It’s really, really fun. She captures the “cat” of it all well.
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600,000 WORDS…
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I should note that yes, Choice of the Cat is our longest game yet, but both Rebels (in copyedit) and Tally-Ho (beta just opened today) are also…600,000 words long.
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And she did it in 1.5 years. Assuming writing pace of 600 words/hour (for rough draft), multiplied by 2 (to account for redraft, edting, etc.) = 2,000 hours to write this, give or take. That’s 25 hours per week, every week, for 1.5 years.
That’s a part-time job! Wow!
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I can’t speak to how quickly she writes but it was actually 1 year, 5 months from pitch to publish, and we were at full draft after 1 year, 3 months.
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Hah but what if 100,000 of those words are “meow” though?!
I’m very impressed, am looking forward to playing!
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600,000 words about cats?! 
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This makes me feel better; when I did the beta I thought it was odd just how long it took me to do just one playthrough.
Y’all are in for a treat with this one, it was quite clever and creative.
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By the way…this is the best Choice of Games Youtube ad yet. Great job, Dan and company!
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Yes I must agree about the Youtube ad, awesome!
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I admit I was skeptical when I saw the blurb for this in the CoG schedule thread, but the demo really won me over. I will definitely be buying this.
One thing: you might want to attach a content warning on this one. Some people might think a game about a housecat is one of your more “kid-friendly” offerings, and I noticed that Andre uses some language they don’t allow on network TV.
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Uh, yes: this game is not for kids.
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Uh huh. And I’m saying, maybe make clear that the game about the cute kitty and their new family includes words like “fuck” and “twat.”
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If you look at the ratings on iTunes, it’s marked as “frequent profanity.”
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One thing I noticed that’s new about iOS 11 iTunes is that it includes reviews, charting, and rating info right at the top in big, readable font.
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The Amazon site for this game has it listed as “All Ages.”
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Congratulations to both you, as project manager, and the author for executing a game I find well written and which has some very fun choices in it.
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