[progress] end of year check-in (Dec., 2020)

Have a safe New Year’s Eve. Wish 2021 will be better for everyone! <3

So far…

• still ~170,000 words (including code), slowly getting into chapter 8, but I suspect I might need to think about 8, 9, and 10 at the same time. If some divergent path of 8 will be longer than others, I would consider putting half of it in 9.
• Previous dotgraph was misleading because a segment of chapter 7 was missing an “arrow-generating link” in the code that essentially caused the graph to look like 7 was shorter than it is now. I will still try to limit chapter length/depth to be approximately the same as chapter 1, but it’s getting harder now. Perhaps the better solution is to lengthen chapter 1 on a rewrite. For now, must push forward.
• War, revenge, or power struggle. I plan to have NPCs die on some paths in these chapters. I intend for such outcome to be choice-based (as opposed to stats based), but I’m not sure if it isn’t earlier-choice-based (as opposed to local-choice-based)…