Future Fragments News

Weekly Progress Report #58 for Future Fragments

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[h2]GAMEPLAY[/h2]

Frouge is finished with the gallery: he’s now went back to finishing the “boss ending/beginning” scenes, as well as implementing the remaining sound effects.[/h3]

[h2]STORY[/h2]

Remaining: 115 Cutscenes. Things completed this week:
Just various NPC Cutscenes across the levels, again.
Didn't get as much done this week in terms of writing as I'd want to for two reasons;
A good amount of these were the harder, more dense ones, so future weeks should show more progress per week.
That also said, I do need time to actually plug in the cutscenes by hand, so some weeks will be slower.[/h3]

[h2]AUDIO[/h2]

Wishful Simping is still working on the soundtrack version of the game.
Also, Lewd K. is mastering voicework and such as usual.[/h3]

Weekly Progress Report #57 for Future Fragments

Frouge is still working on gallery functions; after that, he'll be working on various odds and ends.[/h3]

[h2]STORY[/h2]

Remaining: 150 Cutscenes. Things completed this week:
Just various NPC Cutscenes across the levels.
Didn't get as much done this week in terms of writing as I'd want to for two reasons;
The first was that I've been sleeping about 4 or so hours a day for a few weeks, so I took two days to just sleep 12 or so hours each day and catch back up on my sleep.
AThe second was that I've been adding in cutscenes directly in the game, and ripping more voicework.
After today though, I plan to get back to solely writing for a few days before going back to adding in cutscenes in engine again, flipping back and forth between the two.[/h3]

[h2]AUDIO[/h2]

Wishful Simping is still working on the soundtrack version of the game.
Also, Lewd K. is mastering voicework and such as usual.[/h3]

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Yeah, didn't get as much done this week in terms of raw writing as I'd hoped, but things should be still good for grinding out stuff for this week.

Not much else to report; we're still making solid progress, same as before :)

Weekly Progress Report #56 for Future Fragments

Frouge is continuing to “hook up” the True Final Boss fight to the main game.[/h3]

[h2]STORY[/h2]

Remaining: 169 Cutscenes. Things completed this week:
All "Faye scenes" AND the "Faye Points" system (rescue her = she helps you later, etc.)
All “Gold Databank" scripts and 3 more "True Ending" scripts.
Most of the timesink was ripping all the voicework I got + Faye cutscene variants. Which leads into...
At launch, it's unlikely we'll have ALL the voicework in the game; we'll have probably around 90% of it in. (The gameplay will be unaffected; this is purely audio-based. All main story writing will be in too.)
The core storyline voicework will LIKELY be all in; that's been getting recorded first.
This is entirely due to me taking too long for the scripts, and not on anyone else whatsoever.
We estimate it will take around 1 month after launch to fully get in ALL voicework.
During that month, Frouge and I will be updating the game every other day with voices & bugfixes.[/h3]

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To be clear; WE'RE NOT DELAYING THE RELEASE; WE'RE STILL SUBMITTING TO STEAM ON SEPTEMBER 22ND.[/h3]

Weekly Progress Report #55 for Future Fragments

Nothing new to report here, for obvious reasons.[/h3]

[h2]GAMEPLAY[/h2]

Frouge is continuing to “hook up” the True Final Boss fight to the main game.[/h3]

[h2]STORY[/h2]

Remaining: 194 Cutscenes. Things completed this week:
All regular enemy Game Over scripts for Fire, Ice, and Earth (2 versions each)
All “Shadow Vie” scenes in the Fire / Ice levels, before she reveals herself to you in the Electric level
All “End Path” scenes, for when you reach the end of a path
All “Returning to the Save Pad” scenes, when you return to the Hub after beating a path
All the events for The End, for when you find
6 of the “True Endings” (as in, the full script, not the summaries which are done for all of them)[/h3]

[h2]AUDIO[/h2]

Wishful Simping has mastered the game’s music; he’s now working on the soundtrack versions.[/h3]

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Over on Discord, I've been posting bits of extra info that accompany each of these progress reports for a long while now.

As of this post, I'll be adding them to the Steam posts at the bottom of the post, too.

if you want to see past blurbs, you can find them at the Discord link at the top of this post, and once you've joined, you can see them in the #progress-reports channel.

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Whoops, I uh, completely lost track of time and thought the weekly update was today, not yesterday.

Making good progress on the cutscenes though, although admittedly a good amount of them are quicker ones to knock out.

But some of them were massive brain drains to do (like the entire Shadow Vie ones), because those setup the entire "core" of your relationship with her, as well as her backstory and objective of her reason to team up with you, plus a lot of other stuff that ties into many, many other things.

So I had to go back and re-write parts of those ones a few times to fit in with existing cutscenes/events.

Weekly Progress Report #54 for Future Fragments

Nothing new to report here, for obvious reasons.[/h3]

[h2]GAMEPLAY[/h2]

Frouge has begun “hooking up” the True Final Boss fight to the main game.[/h3]

[h2]STORY[/h2]

I’ll be posting a running count from here on out so you’ve all got an idea of how many are left to write.
Remaining: 277 Cutscenes. No, that isn’t a typo. Yes, I believe they can be finished by Sept. 22nd.
Probably 90% of the work for cutscenes comes from the prep work; making sure cutscenes
properly connect continuity-wise to other scenes, researching info regarding science or other
real world things that appear in the cutscene, writing character “personality” sheets forconsistent
dialogue, designing parts of the map around each character, and a zillion other things.
The actual WRITING itself, when all that mountain of prep is done, is the easiest/fastest part.[/h3]

[h2]AUDIO[/h2]

Nothing new to report here; Wishful Simping is taking a week to deal with some IRL things.[/h3]