Future Fragments News

Weekly Progress Report #56 for Future Fragments

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[h2]GAMEPLAY[/h2]

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]

Weekly Progress Report #53 for Future Fragments

The art for all 12 Gold Databanks is done!
We've posted about half of them to the right (blurred per spoilers).[/h3]

[h2]GAMEPLAY[/h2]

All gameplay phases for the True Final Boss fight are now 99% complete, with only a bit of polish left.
Frouge is still finishing off those boss fight endings/entrances.[/h3]

[h2]STORY[/h2]

Work on the cutscenes is continuing.[/h3]

[h2]AUDIO[/h2]

Wishful Simping has mastered every song in the game except for Phase 4 songs for the TFB.
All SFX, save for a few, have been implemented for the True Final Boss fight.[/h3]

Weekly Progress Report #52 for Future Fragments

1 Gold Databank left to do, and then all the visuals will be done for the game![/h3]

[h2]GAMEPLAY[/h2]

Inputs for Phase 4 of the TFB have been implemented.
Frouge is working on "boss fight endings/entrances", and is done with cutscene options for NPCs.[/h3]

[h2]STORY[/h2]

NPC cutscene scripts are continuing to be finished and recorded.
As a side note, some non-NPC cutscene scripts have already been finished too.
There's still more to do, but it's just a lot simpler to say "NPC cutscene scripts" as the main focus.[/h3]

[h2]AUDIO[/h2]

Wishful Simping has went back to mastering.
SFX are being implemented for Phase 4 of the True Final Boss Battle by our second programmer.[/h3]