These are absolutely planned features! There will be a number of different ways for this series of scenes to play out, but both of the ideas you mentioned will absolutely make it into the story as possible outcomes.
Thank you for pointing this out – will aim to get it fixed ASAP!
Hello dear friends! I apologize that this update is coming out rather late this Sunday (in my timezone at least), but I certainly hope the large amount of progress I’ve made will make up for it! And by large progress, I do mean large! I’ve spent well over 10+ hours writing and brainstorming since Thursday night (just about all of my weekend has been spent writing). Without further adieu, however, I’m happy to share them.
The Updates
Most excitingly, I am on track to release updates to both the Patreon and public demos on the first of November! More on exactly what those updates will contain will be below
The entirety of Chapter 4 is now complete! Chapter 4, Murphy’s Law, also takes the cake as TPH’s longest chapter, at just under 85,000 words!
In Chapter 4 there are two possible endings to the game – both of these endings (while similar) are now completely finished, with the corresponding epilogue scenes for them also completed
With each of these epilogues, there will also be updates made to the Character Pages (so that each character has an updated page depending on the outcome of the story)
Within Chapter 4, the entire investigation, impeachment, and conviction scenes have been written fully, with a wide variety of different outcomes for each (these outcomes also take into account how your party did in the midterms, your approval ratings, as well as other stats)
Oh yes, and the previously rather mysterious Former President George Hoffman finally has a profile in the Character Pages now
For the rest of the month, I’ll be working to fix any coding errors or grammatical errors that pop up (as I mentioned, most of this writing was done in a frenzy split between about three sittings, and I’d hate to post a broken demo). I’ll also be going back in and adding some smaller scenes that I’ve been meaning to get around to for a while, as well as sprucing up some scenes from earlier in the story since I feel my writing has come a long way since I’ve started this project a little over a year ago now.
All in all, no matter what my progress is on adding these scenes or sprucing up earlier ones, there will absolutely be updates coming on November 1st. For Patrons, those updates will include the entire story as it’s written. For all of my lovely supporters on the forums, that’ll be everything through Chapter 3 (an added 83,000 words)
This is theoretically possible! I’m still going through the playtesting portion of the new update, but it is a possible outcome to keep control of the Senate. No matter what, though, your party will lose control of the House of Representatives.
The best possible outcome is to have the opposition party gain an incredibly narrow majority.
Apologies for holding you all in suspense! The update announcement and writer’s diary will be out by 2 PM Eastern. (Roughly two hours from this post for those in other timezones).
For those of you in the U.S. and elsewhere where Halloween is celebrated – I hope you had a safe and enjoyable Halloween. For those celebrating Día de Muertos, a Feliz Día de los Muertos for you. For the rest of you, I hope you had a lovely October!
As promised, I’m so so happy to be able to finally post an update to both the public and private demos today. To find the update, Patrons will see the November Edition posted to my Patreon (it should also be pinned). For all my other lovely readers on the forum, it’ll be the same link in my first post. Still, I’ll link both below to more easily access them.
The updates listed below obviously won’t be all the changes, but I’ll highlight the biggest things that are new in each.
The Updates
Quite a bit!
One of the biggest things you’ll probably notice early on is a bit of a rework to the Prologue. It now follows a much more linear path (not so much jumping around), and I really hope you all enjoy the changes and additions as much as I do. I’ve always felt the prologue was a bit lacking, and I really think the new changes help to flesh it out a bit more.
For the public demo: this update will include some more character pages (accessible through the stats page), the updates to the prologue, and everything I’ve written through the end of Chapter 3
For the Patreon demo: you’ll get a few extra goodies. This demo will go through the entirety of Chapter 4 and will include the first few hundred words of Chapter 5 as a small teaser.
As I mentioned in my last Writer’s Diary, the Patreon demo will also include two of the possible endings in the Epilogue (I won’t reveal what those two are to avoid spoilers). If you don’t encounter those “game over” endings, your demo should end part way into Chapter 5.
In the time until my next update, I’ll be working on continuing to write Chapter 5, which will focus entirely on your re-election campaign (should you decide to run). I don’t have a timeline just yet of when I’d like the chapter to be completed, but I have a pretty good outline so I’m hoping progress will go quickly
TLDR: There’s a lot of new stuff and I hope you enjoy it!
Going forward, I’m certainly hoping to be getting updates out a bit more frequently (to both the public and private demos). The fact that it’s been about ten months since the last public update is certainly not ideal, and I hope to change that in the future.
As always, I very eagerly await your feedback and suggestions. Thank you all (again) for bearing with me on this journey, I am eternally thankful for everything.
Updated Word Count (Public): 200k+ words Updated Word Count (Patreon): 290k+ words
Going to look into this issue now to try and see what the issue may be – just scanned through it once but am still unsure of why this may be happening. Will update you when I think I’ve fixed it!
I think I found a bug, my Vice president give me his opinon on wich of the three proposal I should choose, I follow his advice and then I loose relation with him