So glad you are working on this story!!! Will definitely but this as soon it comes out for sale also can’t wait for your website!! Keep up the great work! From your loyal fan!!
@trollhunterthethird, Yep the next update will be the beta! I’m very excited. I’ve written almost 10,000 words in the past week and I’m off work this Monday and Tuesday so I’ll be staying up into the wee hours of the night cranking it out. All of the story is in my head! I just have to get it coded out.
I’m writing more Jacob scenes. He’ll be much more central to the story in its final version, or at least that is my intention. And I’ll only say this for the ending - although a few things will HAVE to happen no matter what to give me a clean jumping off point for Part 2, your choices WILL partially affect how things go down at the end.
@StarWarsMaster, yeah I’m reading some articles about building websites. I haven’t built one since like 1998 so I’m perhaps a bit rusty. However, from what I read, it’s a LOT easier than it used to be. And I know you’re a loyal fan! It’s appreciated. Also, @Wire told me that you told him how much you liked the art. I’m glad you did. I thought it was pretty awesome myself.
WooHoo! I’m over the 100K word mark. I just wanted to celebrate that a bit. Carry on.
Congrat’ on writing over 100k =D> 
Party party lol
@HornHeadFan nice! 100K is pretty awesome man.
Great job, HornHeadFan! Seems like I’m a bit too late for the party to offer you criticism, but school - Sophomore year, actually - has started like a few days ago, so I can’t be online as much because of studying. Hopefully you know that I am still behind you 100 percent, and I am still reading the story! I can’t wait for the beta, and I hope you have a fun time writing it.
Peace!
Congrats! I don’t comment much on here (I really should), but I’m still rooting for this. Just quietly. Good luck!
Aww man I can’t wait for September!! I’m so totally buying g this as soon it comes out!! Love this game!!!
I played through this beta a couple times now and decided not to post until I’ve formed enough of an opinion about the characters.
To be honest, I always played as a sniper and felt that I’m pretty powerful. From other people’s posts, I take it that being a sniper gives you an advantage?
My favorite two male characters are Crook followed by Stunner. My favorite females are Tress followed by Dirtygirl.
I think I only managed to collect three secrets throughout my playthrough so I think I should pay more attention and try to get the others.
Overall, I really enjoy playing this game! It’s really well-written and thoughtout and I can’t wait to see what happens next.
Okay, I messed up because I binged on Tomb Raider instead and I just finished it. (which btw, is a great game and everyone needs to get on that!)
Oh god if my finals resembled anything like in CCH, I would die in an instant! Anyway, I feel like my comments are useless at this point tbh because I keep reiterating how much I love this game!
But yeah, I enjoy the study group sessions, I love that idea! More scenes with the characters is always a plus. I played through all the different study group committees and yeah, it’s no surprise that I enjoyed myself! (Also, yay for Stunner not being a jerk) On a side note before we get the option to invite ComWom to our study group, could we maybe ask how things are going with his study group first? Not that it’ll change anything, but I was just wondering ever since I played that part!
I’m happy to see how we could increase/decrease the relationships we have with our professors as well, well done! I loved the trick that Nil pulled about who was willing to lie.
And now for the boring stuff! Maybe someone else has pointed these out but just in case!
I just noticed:
“Since Prestige and Savior have never allowed non-powered students to apply”
Maybe it’s just me and the way I’m looking at it but how will we get into Prestige or Savior? Will we still get to apply, being a non-powered and all?
This is just me being nitpick-y right now but when choosing a weakness, some options have a full stop after them and others don’t.
“Tress has grasped Team H’s flag with her telekinetic trendrils and literally skips up to you as you reach the jail tree.”
“arguing that Tress’s capture”
" I was pretty strong, stronger than (I) looked anyway,"
I really enjoyed the demo up to the press conference, where it ended. The characters seem real and diverse, and you gradually get to know them is a real-seeming way.
I have two quibbles.
It seems unnecessarily inconvenient to have your hero stats on one page, and the “translation” on another. Couldn’t you just do something like this:
“POW! (melee) 50%”
and save new players pointless page-turns to find out what they can do?
Also i feel that the beginning is a little too exposition heavy-- especially with information about the world, hero universities, etc. I think it might be better to go straight to the protagonist’s personal story, add in the background info as it comes up in the course of the story.
Thanks to everyone for the kind and supportive words. I haven’t been quite as chatty as normal because I’m trying to focus most of my free time on writing, but I’ve learned that after about 2,000 words in a day, I seem to max out as far as creativity and stringing sentences together.
@Kandrakaria, welcome to the thread! I’m glad to see someone else likes Stunner. He’s really not so bad, is he? I try to put myself in his shoes and wonder how patient I’d be with most of these misfits if I was physically awesome like Stunner. And Sniper may be a bit overpowered now, but there should still be a few scenes like the Mob sparring session where you wont’ do well. And everything will be balanced coming out of beta testing. I really don’t plan to change much of the narrative in beta, but I’ll damn sure ask for a ton of feedback about the study session/combat/grading mechanics.
@ceecrab, thanks for the suggestions! I might insert a throwaway line for ComWom in that scene, because as you stated, it won’t change anything or require a choice or anything. Hmmm…I could write something about how Spiked Gladiator keeps trying to mind control/convince ComWom to do all his homework or something.
And as far as the MC ultimately getting admitted to Prestige or Savior, you never know! Maybe that could be an option at the end of the trilogy if the MC makes certain choices through the storyline and ultimately decides good ole’ Speck isn’t good enough. Poor Speck.
@eleazzaar, you win the “hardest name to type” contest tonight! I think I spelled it wrong like 3 times. Anyways, welcome to the thread! It’s pretty cool seeing a brand new person whose first comment is in the CCH thread. I’m glad you like the characters. Do you like one more than the others? I’ve cycled through months where I was most motivated to write about one more than the others…recently it was Origami, and I wrote and thought a lot about her. Now Crook has my attention.
And I agree with you about simplifying the stats screen. It just hasn’t been a priority yet. I was just thrilled to fix it so that it only showed the weapon upgrades for your chosen archtype.
And yes Chapter 1 is certainly more exposition heavy. I’ll probably move something into Chapter 2, either the summary of the different schools (possibly in the orientation scene in the gym when Dean Tolly mentions Mega Cat), or the discussion of the MC’s secret past (possibly when the MC gets the class schedule and sees that there is a Secrets class).
Fan you just need to do what I do and abbreviate everybody’s name, people usually know who you’re talking to 
I remember the first time I read this and saw the name mega cat and the first image in my head was just of a massive cat attacking the city. Lol
@HornHeadFan
Link please?
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@HornHeadFan Is forming a super team with the study group to counter the Dozen a possibility? Also loving the game so far but there’s a problem, I’m throwing my money at the screen but the game seems to end at the when you’re checking on the hospital. Should I throw it harder?