Release aftermath

Hoo boy!

TLDR:
So Teraurge has been out in the wild for a week now. It sounds cliché but I've been overwhelmed by the reception. I have a lot hopes and dreams riding on my back now. I'll try my best to carry this weird cross to the promised land, but at heart I'm just a very naughty boy (with limited time and resources).

Shoutouts to people who deserve recognition:

Alordab, is the eccentric genius who wrote the most of the Braq content you have so shamefully consumed. He is also the person who probably saved the whole project by restarting my motivation and providing feedback/testing on the scripting system. He is an enigma to me and to the public, but he still carries Teraurge as his avatar on FA. Dude, if you're up for writing more tripods or excessively mammaried cowsauruses, let me know.

Snekguy, kindly kindled my lust for writing stuff. If not for his viper sagas and space cats, Shyni, Naigad, Subni and other terribly heartbreaking characters might not exists. Snek also helped me with some writing stuff to get the game over the finish line. He writes stuff on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Snekguy We have an odd relationship where we give free stuff to each other once in a while.


Things you need to know about me:

• I'm not a people person. I like people and talking but social stuff drains my batteries fast and I start avoiding it.
• I'm not a code wizard. I self-taught most of my code stuff by bits and bobs so my overall knowledge base is spotty to say the least.
• I'm not bisexual or gay (bunch of suspicious "Ooh?"s emanate from the audience) so m/m (and especially f/f) writing stuff will probably always be slightly off, but I'll try my best.
• I'm sometimes very heavily constrained by my other commitments so I cannot promise clear working hours for the game dev. I am dedicating a lot of time to it at the moment and I am almost maniacally motivated by the overall response to the buggy and unfinished demo.
• I'm... I'm a good writer? I've seen people praise the writing a lot and I haven't seen much criticism of the overall writing quality (aside from the elementary grade grammar mess ups). I will try not to fellate myself (too much) over this fact.
• I really like lists.

My plan (in order of execution):

• A blog post about Teraurge scripting and other contributor writer support.
• Release 1.12 as the last update to 1.0 (Grammar and scripting fixes)
• Upgrade the teraurge_janitor to reduce scripting errors and give it to contributors.
• Start working on 2.0
• Release 2.0

The 2.0 content:

• Cut content reintegrated back into the game.
• Sinful m/m dickery.
• Several missing feral scenes.
• Few dialogue details.

• Remastered Tornoth scenes + dialogue.
• Updating existing art.
• More pictures for existing scenes.
• New small locations in Sejan.
• New items.
• Possibly new encounters from contributors.
• New characters.
• Continuation to major character stories.

Background development:

• teraurge_janitor upgrades.
• Combat system revamp.
• UI enhancement.
• Distant locations development.

Games that inspire Teraurge:

• The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
• I wouldn't call anything in the game systems good. It's kinda collection of cruddy and disparate mechanics tied into a giant yarn ball with thousand miles of atmosphere and story. Erhm... So it's completely different from my game.
• Gothic II
• Probably the best open world systematization to date. The eurojank clunks up the game real bad nowadays, but oddly enough it's required to make the game work.
• Fallout 1-2
• Fallouts are kinda etched into my soul. I like the simplicity of concentrating onto a single character (It helps all your party members run into your guns to get mulched). The feeling confusion and hidden depth that permeate the earliest Fallouts are also something I really like.
• Corruption Of Champions 
• I was very frustrated by the content, theme and the systematization and I really wanted to make a better ones. Yes, CoC is the reason Teraurge exists, as silly as that sounds.

Notes on the game's design:

• Harems/corruption/etc paraphilia usually found in porn games will not be systematically implemented for the sexual gratification of the player. It's possible to have a character with a fetish but that fetish will be handled in the greater context of the game and not be a bubble of porn inside the world.
• The idea behind the player attributes is to keep them more or less permanent (fallout 1 style), this sounds retarded to anyone with any crpg experience, but the attributes only exists to define the player character for the duration of the game. I will do a larger blog post about attributes and player progression in the future (there will be player progression). The stats and the stat checking will become more pronounced and tightened up in later versions (There will be major changes. For example: perception will go into the trash and will be replaced by a non attribute system).
• There will be very limited grinding in the game (The grinding will only result Krats and perishable items associated with them). You are not supposed to slap "monsters" in the meadows to beat gold pieces out of their asses. Adats cannot be earned through grinding and they're literally irreplaceable "storybucks".
• I have looked into survival mechanics and I while I like the idea personally, I don't see how to integrate them into the game yet, or if I even should. The survival/travel mechanics would almost become a layer of free floating "stuff" on top of the unique story content. The survival mechanics would need money to fuel it and then player is suddenly slapping Krat carrying wildlife to eke out more dough to pay for supplies so he can travel to the next story location...
• You will always miss content, this is intentional and will continue through the rest of the content. This will probably only make sense in the long run.
• Traveling large distances will be arduous and will take time. The game will feature "fast travel" but even that will be pieces of non repeatable story. I want the player to feel they've gone on an adventure when they've traveled a large distance on the map. The player won't be flitting around the map to deliver ten monsterbunny ears for 20 XP. 
• The game is designed around PC wandering alone. I'd love to have situations involving group travel in controlled story bits but the game mechanically just doesn't support party gameplay. All the content is designed around PC being a lone wanderer.
• All the dirty bois using memory editing, don't bother, the security measures are disabled so you can just edit the save files.

I probably didn't explain half of the stuff I meant to, so do comment and ask questions. I'll try answer them. I will now move on to writing a blogpost to help the poor writers who jumped into the abyss to keep me company.

BTW, there's been a lot of misinformation going on about what's in the game and how to do certain stuff, so don't believe everything you hear about the content. That said, did anyone successfully open the sock tree portal? I haven't seen anyone post anything about it.