Jolly Good: Cakes and Ale Free-for-All Discussion Thread Where Spoilers May Appear

poison_mara · 2019-06-01T14:25:07.714Z

Could i ask for a pet? or even if only a cat in place I could give food and pet even if has no more dialogue or scenes. Seriously I will give premium meat to kitty and pet it everyday. Even if There are only two lines associated with it… I love cats.

lynossa · 2019-06-01T14:47:15.275Z

I think pet is a good idea; imagine the hilarity that will ensue as our chaotic MC tries to take care of their pets and how our servant will end up taking care of it.

Gower · 2019-06-01T14:55:46.357Z

I will consider for the follow-up games. This far into game 1 I probably can’t include a pet!

poison_mara · 2019-06-01T19:57:58.864Z

My voice is in favour player agency so both sides of coin assertive and submissive or a mixture of both. Is key to a choice of game with focus in romance

Cari-san · 2019-06-02T02:17:00.570Z

poison_mara:

My voice is in favour player agency so both sides of coin assertive and submissive or a mixture of both.

Needed a second read to realize that hence why I deleted my post.

@Gower I wonder how long do you plan to make this game. 600k words sound already pretty impressive, will this dethrone Choice of Rebels (I think that’s the longest CoG so far)?

Havenstone · 2019-06-02T09:08:41.660Z

Cari-san:

will this dethrone Choice of Rebels (I think that’s the longest CoG so far)?

Gower already dethroned me. Tally Ho is longer than Rebels. He now gets to dethrone himself.

poison_mara · 2019-06-02T09:36:16.875Z

You still on game @Havenstone I am sure you will beat @Gower in any of your saga volumes But I will cheer both of you as both are awesome. And is a big win for comunity having you both.

Gower · 2019-06-02T12:04:57.036Z

Cari-san:

I wonder how long do you plan to make this game. 600k words sound already pretty impressive, will this dethrone Choice of Rebels (I think that’s the longest CoG so far)?

I have no clue! When I talked to Jason and Rebecca about this project originally, the notion was to write it as a trilogy specifically so that I could make each individual game closer to 250k or so. (It’s obviously financially smarter for the author to write three 200k games rather than one 600k game if you can manage it…) Clearly that plan is out the window.

Maybe this will end up 800k? 900k? I can’t quite tell. But my only hope is that Jason and Rebecca have patience with my long-windedness and propensity for creating lengthy and indulgent plot paths and long, long conversations with characters…

Havenstone · 2019-06-02T12:09:50.709Z

Gower:

my only hope is that Jason and Rebecca have patience

Amen.

poison_mara · 2019-06-02T13:21:56.694Z

I am known for being grumpy and everything but is encouraging the passion authors and company have here. Compared with I have seen outside. For instance in a Spanish if company forum They directly asked fans to solution to MAKE GAME MORE EXPENSIVE CHUNKING a game already made for sold separately. It was the most unethical post i have ever seen. Think i have never seen here both in Cog and in Hosted. There is true there is game with some IAP but they are volunteer I usually bought to helping sustained authors that bring us good games.

Still @Gower don’t be silly and if you think You could add some IAP to game that have sense do it as you deserve the money for your hard work. I am easy to please add a cat and I am sold

ennuitas · 2019-06-02T16:27:26.960Z

SOBBSS can’t wait for this game

Greyscales · 2019-06-03T18:18:34.027Z

Wasn’t there a game with 1 mil words? Or was that considered a Hosted Game?

Ashes_rise · 2019-06-03T19:33:57.551Z

I believe that was Tin Star, so Hosted.

Chopper · 2019-06-05T03:22:39.887Z

Ya Tin Star and Magikiras (1.4 and 1.1 million respectively) were both hosted games

Greyscales · 2019-06-05T09:05:00.802Z

There’s two? I have a lot of reading to do!

idonotlikeusernames · 2019-06-05T11:09:20.377Z

poison_mara:

You could add some IAP to game that have sense do it

I hope our dear author also considers a gold, platinum or director’s cut version then as I really don’t like the feeling of being nickled and dimed and I like paying my bank fees even less and doing one relatively larger purchase saves me about 10 cents in financial transaction blood-money that we have to pay our banks since they were bailed out in the last “crisis” they caused in the first place.

poison_mara · 2019-06-05T11:42:57.962Z

I will bought it for sure I want that good writers being successful to writing ever more. And Gower is a good patient writer that can read mara ramblings and give advice so I am team gower!

Gower · 2019-07-02T22:32:21.790Z

Update:

Hey jolly good fans,

I’m still plugging away at this thing, every day. I’m about 1/3 through Chapter Six. Originally I thought I was going to be done at the end of this summer, but I think, based on my current progress through my outline, it’s going to be more like the end of the year, realistically, and considering how much continuity work and revision work I’ll need to do. I’ll continue updating the first post in this thread with word count and progress, and let you know if there’s any exciting and/or shocking news!

Isa · 2019-07-03T08:26:13.463Z

Will there be a commentary-version, too? Like in Midsummer Night’s Choice?

It was really delightful to read background information.

Gower · 2019-07-04T16:56:00.883Z

I can pretty safely say that there won’t be a commentary version for the Jolly Good series. The Midsummer one was fun to write, but the ratio of time to remuneration wasn’t great, let’s say. I’d rather use that time to write more games!