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I want to thank everyone for their support. It means so much.

I’ve stopped the timer on the seven days and I’ll restart it once my brain comes back. I’m hoping it’s just a temporary blip. I can’t even remember how many days I was on when I stopped. My memory’s just not working and my concentration’s shot to pieces.

I was trying to think of the dragon adventures before my brain stopped working. I’ll see if I can poke at the ideas a bit more. I think writing each dragon side quest will take me a day, so I’ll definitely need longer than 7 days to complete. Otherwise it’s just copying and replacing dragon names and that would just change the point of them all having their own personalities.

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@FairyGodfeather I believe the first day that I stopped noticing posts on this forum by you was on Thursday, so that would mean you were four days in at the time and would start up on day five when you begin working again. And know that you still have my support no matter when you start work again!

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@FairyGodfeather
Don’t feel bad about not making the deadline. Don’t beat yourself up over either. Just make a new one, and continue when you can! This project is supposed to be fun, right? Don’t worry yourself over it. :slight_smile:

You have my support, as before! I believe in you!

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My brain’s doing a bit better today. Yesterday I was freaking out because I thought it was going back to being stupid-brain, but apparantly not. I’m so grateful for that.

@Galador Okay! I have three days left on my timer then. It would have been enough to finish things the quick way. I don’t think I want to finish things the quick way though. I do still need a time limit.

However, I think I’ll change it to I’ve done 4 days of work so far.

I think I want to spend a day on each of the different dragon adventures. That’s the best way to do them justice. I’ll also tidy up each dragon’s section and make sure I finish the witch’s conversation about them during that day. So that means I need five days for that.

I have strong ideas for two of the dragon-sidequests. And rough ideas for the other three.

I want to spend a day working on the evil ending.

I do want that baking contest. It’s going to take a day to write though, at least, and that’s only once I work out the game logic for it. Actually I may try and spin that off into its own discussion because I need help on that idea. I won’t start working on it until I’ve puzzled it out.

I also think if I give the Witch, The Minstrel, The Prince, and Rose/Briar a day each to include their stories.

So how much time I need is currently

5 Days for Dragon Adventures.
4 Days for NPCs
1 Day for Evil Ending
2 Days for Baking Contest

So 12 days. But chances are it’ll be done in bursts. And I’ll just start that thread for the baking contest if just to see if the possibility to create it as a puzzle is workable or not.

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@FairyGodfeather This sounds achievable! Good planning, as far as I can tell! I would be sure to split up the different dragon quests though so that you aren’t doing those five days straight. That will get tedious, and it will inevitably lead to the ones done at the end having poor quality compared to the first couple.

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Good luck man. I look forward to your progress. Side question if you complete this and you like it will you sell it?

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@Galador Smart plan! Yeah best to break it up. I have noticed that my quality goes down the longer I spend on something. It’s one of the reasons each dragon gets its own day and I know I have huge chunks to go back and add.

@undead I’m not sure about selling it or not. If I do decide to sell it’ll be after extensive testing and polishing. Even if I do decide to sell I’ll see if there’s a way to give free copies to everyone who’s supported me on this thread.

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@FairyGodfeather We’d still pay anyway!

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@Trollhunterthethird It doesn’t matter. I always said that if I ever made a game I’d be sure that my beta-testers and people who supported me would get a copy for free. I may not be able to pay in money for the help, but the least I can do is offer a piece of something they helped create. So if I do sell the game, then I’d also want to be sure I could hand out some ‘free’ copies. Not that it’s free because it would be going to people who’d invested their time into helping me and it would be as a thank you.

Of course it’s a huge if I get finished.

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@FairyGodfeather I’m sure most people wouldn’t accept the free copy and would insist on paying! Anyway, for me at least, I’m just glad to help! I guess the only way I would take it for free would be if you absolutely insisted on it because it was something you really wanted to do!

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@FairyGodfeather Nah, the best you could gives us is YOUR SOUL >:)

Joke, We only want donuts every Sunday for a month.

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Answering here to get back to this thread. I haven’t restarted the timer yet since I just see the baking contest as fiddling with stuff currently. I’ll start counting again when I get to writing actual content. The baking stuff is just a fun diversion.

@Galador

"Breaking into places is always fun, especially when you have a bumbling fool with you who knows what they’re doing but at the same time doesn’t!

Heh! You know that it will be the main character who’s the bumbling fool with absolutely no experience when it comes to breaking and entry? I have an idea now of how the B&E scene will end. I want it there. I want the Baking Contest to be the only route to Rose/Briar though. So I have a plan, one that shouldn’t make B&E useless.

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@FairyGodfeather That could be even better to have the main character be the fool! But you mean that the only way to ever actually see Rose/Briar in the whole game will be during the baking contest?

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The current plan is apt to change. Just now the only way to get the ending with Rose/Briar is to enter the baking contest. Otherwise you won’t be able to get close to them before the marriage. There’s story reasons which you may discover. You will also be able to speak to Rose/Briar on the Prince’s path, but that one’s far more uncertain and I’ve not even plotted it out yet.

I am working on flashbacks. I’ve a few scribbled down, so that you can see who Rose/Briar was.

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@FairyGodfeather There will be the option to try to crash the wedding and win your Rose/Briar back before they get married, right? That, or to just sabotage it and make them both look stupid and either make them not want to marry each other, or just make them get married but still look foolish?

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@Galador Okay! Now you mention it there needs to be one. It would be dramatically appropriate. It’s a great idea. Not for the Briar/Rose path though, but there’s another path (spoilers!) which the whole gate-crashing the wedding would be absolutely perfect for. Yeah! I’ll definitely have gate-crashing the wedding being the end of that path because it’ll be fun.

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This story vaguely reminds me of another game that was on this website… I don’t remember which one, though.

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@RagEgnite Oh I didn’t realise there was another dragon raising game on the forums. Can you remember which game it is? I’d love to play it. What is it that seems similar?

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@FairyGodfeather Sweet! That’ll be awesome! I am rather forgetting, however, that this game is supposed to be about raising a dragon, not a love (or “not-love”) story! I need to keep in mind for any future suggestions I make that nothing about Rose/Briar is meant to be the central element…

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@Galador

It’s a mix! It’s mostly just a silly little fantasy game in which I had four ideas

  1. I want to write a dragon-raising game
  2. I want a fantasy game with a handful of love interests
  3. I want to do a puzzle in choicescript… mmm baking.
  4. Plot! Every game needs plot!

And then I went SMOOOOOOOSH!!! And I kept smooshing until they started to fit together.

So you can play it how you want. As a raising sim it’s not going to be great. To make it a fun raising sim would require a platform other than choicescript. So I’ve trimmed the raising aspects down to the the bare minimum. It’s hatch your dragon, feed it, make it a bed, bathe it, learn how to take care of it. Then you and your dragon go off on an adventure of sorts where your baby dragon finds a job and its purpose in life.

On top of that, there’s a number of romantic options.

Rose/Briar, your childhood sweetheart, a baker who just upped and left with a prince the week before your wedding.
Beau, the Prince.
Dill, the rougish Minstrel, who’s in a similar situation to you, ditched by the Prince for Rose/Briar.
Sorrel, the bitter witch who was told to keep an eye on you.
??? - Secret, secret secret.

There’s also, on two of the dragon paths, a Blacksmith/Knight, and on two different dragon paths an Artist/Scholar. However I’ve not written either of them up yet and I just plan to keep them accessible only on two dragon paths each with no cross-over onto the main storyline.

All the paths will be short. I plan to make it a short, very replayable bush, as opposed to a longer game.

There’s a lot of endings planned, which does mean no sequel, but I just want something short and fun.

So feel free to talk about whatever you want to here, or whatever aspects interest you, or ask any questions, since it’s mostly a game of mush.

I’ve been writing little vignettes of your history with Rose/Briar. But it doesn’t count as working on the game since it’s not typed up. :slight_smile:

I’m also feeling a lot better than I was so I suspect I will be restarting on the game reasonably soon.