Progress Update #17: I'm Still Alive and so is Rui (Jan 21st 2023)

Heyo and salutations, everyone ^w^

Sorry if you haven't heard from me (or received any new content for the game) in a while. I had some issues with my computer and had to have a few of the parts replaced, and I've also been doing a lot of proofreading, as I'm now writing dialogue, choices, and story pages directly into the Ren'py engine, rather than just transcribing that text from pre-existing sources.

Mission: Concentrated Resistance is about halfway done, and is progressing at around 10 lines of narrative code per day. I currently have an estimated few hundred of these written in the mission, and one (out of four planned) battle sequences, which introduces new weapons and weapon classes to the game, as well as serving as Airi's debut as a temporary squadmate. 

One of these three combat encounters has already been implemented, so the remaining three, of which the last will be a boss fight, should be easier to add to the mission. In addition to this, three minor issues have already been added to the mission, and you can decide how Rui will address them based on the skills, tactics, and values you want to employ during your playthrough. At the end of the mission, there will be a major choice that will either keep you allied with the Lemniscate Corporation, or give you the opportunity to ally with the Isamu Liberation Front, but I'd rather not spoil it, as it's intended to be a fairly bleak and horrifying key moment for the story.

While that's about everything for now, I've included some screenshots from the mission,  which feature new backgrounds of the District 8 skyline in downtown Isamu, machine-generated with the assistance of NovelAI.

Thanks again for the support, and please don't tell the SSD if you find classified design specs at the bottom of the page ^w^