New Year's Day(e)
Chapter 3 Release
Ta-daaaa!!
Here it is! And it's even on time (sort of)!
This is chapter 3. It has taken a little longer than usual for me to get this out, but I have been having a rough time this year. Luckily, I have creative outlets like this one to help channel negative energy into. Enough about my boring life. What about this chapter?!
In this chapter, we will see the resolution of the problems between Kaylee and her mom. We will meet Becky's little sister Olivia and uncover some as of yet unknown things about the MC's past. I've tried to include a few foreshadowing clues here and there, some are more subtle than others, so keep an eye out.
We will also see how the big New Year's party is shaping up and there are some really great things that happen with our titular characters.
While I touted earlier that this chapter is not nearly as dark as chapter 2, I will say that for the majority if the time this is true, but watch out for the ending of this one, it's a doozy.
I am trying out using Butler in order to hopefully get the files posted directly to my itch.io page, but I'll also post the Mega links as well just in case it doesn't work.
Anyway, I couldn't be more excited about this chapter and how the rest of the story is shaping up. Please let me know what you think in the comments or hit me up over on Discord.
I hope you've all had a wonderful Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Saturnalia, or whatever other winter-solstice-adjacent holiday you may celebrate. Hopefully Eve, Daye, Kaylee and their friends will make it even better.
Love you all!
~ Jonesy
Comments
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I hope your year gets better Jonesy. I appreciate the work you put in. Unfortunately I have no idea how hard it is since I have no clue on how to develop games. Where does a guy learn that? I have a shit ton of stories. lol. Anyhoo. Here's to a better 2024! Thanks again!
Thanks! I'm glad you're liking everything so far.
As far as learning game development goes? This is it. This is me learning. If you look back at "Christmas Eve", you'll notice a pretty big difference in image quality, coding, animations, and writing as opposed to NYD. I have always enjoyed reading and I have a knack for telling stories. I also love video games.
I was a CAD design engineer in a past life, so I applied some of those skills to working with DAZ Studio to create the images. The rest has been a series of trial and error, forums, videos and this and other communities giving me advice on how to write Ren'Py code, make better images, etc.
It's been hard work, but I also find it fun. If you're interested in trying it out, download DAZ and Ren'Py (both are free), and I'll give you what advice I can.
I really appreciate the info. I will definitely give it a go as I have a lot of experience with CAD as well (Structural and Architectural Engineer in my current life). Thank you again. It's not every day that creators share info as so many are on Patreon selling wait time. I definitely noticed a difference in the two games as far as quality but "Christmas Eve" still looked really good. I look forward to the progress of this and I hope that you continue making content and writing stories. Happy New Year's! (Eve) lol