Konae's Investigations

Strangely enough, my concentration of late has been to ensure that the world map from Arbiters From Another World (This one) is good to go. Though, I suppose ensuring that my world map for this game (This one) passes quality review in that "close enough" kind of way.

As for possible side-quests that I spoke of in the last blog, I'm not 100% sure if this idea was spawned from a suggestion that a beta-tester PMed me or not, but I was thinking of a missing cat case. Or something equally "stupid" for a Chapter 1 case. The side case for Chapter 2 and 3 are still very much undefined, though.

Other thoughts that have been in my head include the fact that it's high-time to actually make the encounter with Masako happen in-game. I've been figuring that certain actions that players perform before meeting her would affect what kinds of options are available when players meet her. For example, doing enough "right" things would mean that she joins the party without any fuss. Likewise, doing enough "wrong" things would mean that players are going to fight her. It's the middle ground where interesting things could happen. Well, that's the current theory. In the end, we shall see how this will pan out.