The MC is also my favourite part of your game. It’s a nice change from the usual passive MCs in other games. For example, we would never get to actually beat up characters like Silas in most other games and just have to put up with their snark and bullying just to see their “character development”. I know it sounds petty but it’s just a pet peeve of mine, lol.
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So true. I cannot stress enough how much fun it was to be able to throw the first punch for a change.
I really hope we get to do that to more people in the future haha!
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For sure. Everyone afraid of him and we just laugh at him and beat him up XD
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Hi all,
Time for my usual fortnightly progress update. Hope that you’ve all been well!
- As mentioned last time, I started work on chapter 3, which is focused on the Pactbinder’s first term at Hightower, over the past two weeks. It will also be the penultimate chapter of ‘term 1’, so in a sense we’re closer to the end of Act 1 of the story than the start, which is strange to think about!
- This has also been a hugely challenging fortnight from a personal life perspective - nothing bad at all, just extremely busy at work, which has given me much less time and energy for writing than I would have liked.
- With all that said, I’m pleased to say that I’ve still made pretty good progress! I’ve written 18.1k words over the past two weeks, and I’m hoping to get that up to 19k by end of today. So I’m actually only a hair under my 10k a week writing target!
- It’s difficult to predict how long I’ll be busy at work, but right now given how the last two weeks have gone, I’m still feeling fairly good about the mid-May release date estimate for chapter 3 I shared a fortnight ago. I’ll let you guys know if that changes of course!
As always - feedback and thoughts always gratefully appreciated on the released content so far. Always keen to make Pactbinder better and your thoughts are an invaluable part of that.
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Love this WIP! It reminds me of Potter, minus the eldritch entity in your head, of course.
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Been a bit slow to respond to comments this past week or so because of the aforementioned work stuff, apologies!!
I’m still really glad that the Pactbinder seems to be working for people so far. Letting them be a proactive instigator of events (if they want to be!) was really important to the vibe I was trying to capture with them. And the C1 Silas fight (and the Phantom in C2, for Pactbinders who charged at them!) definitely won’t be the only fights they get to instigate…
Thanks so much! Really glad you’re enjoying the story so far.
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