Lately, I’ve been concentrating less on visible features and more on the foundation that everything else rests on.
Chapter 1 is content-complete and already approved, but I revisited a few key scenes and re-rendered them with updated assets. The events themselves haven’t changed—the aim was consistency. Chapter 2 has been created with a higher visual baseline, and I want the transition between chapters to feel natural rather than abrupt.
At the same time, I’m refining the dialogue in Chapter 1 — not rewriting, but sharpening tone, subtext, and character intent. Special Request depends heavily on what is not explicitly said, so even minor adjustments are important.
Most of my current work involves behind-the-scenes tasks:
* preparing the initial structure of Chapter 2
* ensuring choices, flags, and variables transfer smoothly from Chapter 1
* confirming that the player’s path genuinely influences how the story develops from that point onward
Chapter 2 is broader in scope than Chapter 1 and introduces new narrative threads that will shape the rest of the game. Before moving forward, I want to be certain that the transition between chapters is solid — both narratively and technically.
This work isn’t very glamorous, but it’s essential. Once the groundwork is in place, everything that follows can move faster — and with fewer compromises.
More next week.