Imperfect Facets 1.1 & the Future

First, the technicals:

1.1 is a housecleaning update. Minor rewrites to improve sentences in a few places (I apologize if I missed anything!), and fixing a bunch of typos. Purged almost ever 'No-wait' tag to help improve the reading experience, especially on instant text speed or for faster than default speeds.

 Also added a cute little animation to one scene, credit to Unagi for that. And that's about it!

Facets is done! Yippee!

I learned a great deal by writing this and participating in the MayWolf game jam, I had a ton of fun, too! There's a part of me that wants to really fancy-up facets, but I think I've learned all I can from this project. Which was:

1. Writing, editing, and coding 23,556 words into RenPy in a single month sure is hard and makes me sad! My next project won't be done on such a strict timetable so I can provide the proper care to every aspect, or FACET, of it. 

2. RenPy Documentation is kind of bad. It was really hard to parse, I barely understood what it was trying to tell me, luckily the community around MayWolf and FVN's is great for learning!  Next time I'll ask for help when I need it so the experience can be better for everyone.

3. Say less.  Have the desire to rip the VN apart and make it shorter, I can probably slash and burn 1k words from this, but I won't. Not this time. I think part of this came from the time constraint, I did a couple REALLY fast editing passes because I didn't want to run out of time for coding it into RenPy.

4. Keep the tone consistent. I'm always anxious about how my writing will be received. I can write fluffy, goofy, silly, light, cute, even horny but I prefer to write weird. I threw in a lot of jokes or silly moments because I was afraid of scaring off readers, I feel like I sacrificed the stories initial vision for an audience I didn't even really have in the first place! (Facets got just shy of 150 downloads during the Jam).

Now what's next?

I'm in the plotting stage of my next FVN. I can't offer any details on what it's going to look like, but I'm going to take everything I learned (plus all the time I need) to tell the story the best way possible and I can't wait to share that with people.

Thanks for reading! I hope you'll come and check out my next project.