The Confession v0.3 Development [1]

I was writing my dev posts over on Patreon but I've decided to migrate over to Itch since I have zero Patreon subscribers XD.

I've finally been able to write a good chunk of dialogue. The dialogue I wrote in the past day is about 50%+ of the dialogue from v0.2 already, so we can finally see some character development! I'd say I'm about 4-7 days away from finishing and will update daily until that happens.

There's a few cool things that are coming up in v0.3 next week:

Meaningful choices

I avoided doing branching early on to gain momentum. I wanted to limit the scope on my project by not biting off more than I can chew. Now that I have a trajectory for the game I can finally have choices that impact the game. This won't mean there are extremely deep routes - the goal of The Confession is still to tell a story!. It will, however, be nice to know that you're able to impact what happens in the story.

Main Character introduction

I was leaning towards a completely faceless narrator for this game so people could really live vicariously through the plot and imagine them as the main character. This doesn't work for two reasons. 1) MC is kind of a cringe lord with a high school personality 2) There are some shots that are simply impossible without showing the MC 3) When texting, MC would not have an icon and that would break the immersion In the last episode I introduced the MC's via a phone icon, and we can expect to slowly see his character be seen. Additionally, we can expect him to take on more personality besides just being a cringe lord as we have a face to put to his identity. He will extend further than self-insert. Honestly this shouldn't really change the scope of the project.

Spanish & Portuguese Translations

The lovely FernandoHT has translated this game into Spanish and Portuguese! I haven't been able to verify the quality of the translations yet as I'm not fluent in Spanish, but assuming the quality is good, I'll push that out for v0.3 as well!

Other translations

If anybody stumbles upon this and is interested in translating into another language, please let me know! Or, if by some chance you're interested in translation into another language I can look into having it translated for you. I am interested in and can potentially translate this into most East Asian languages, several South Asian languages, and potentially Russian.