Modern Synthetic Games

Time for the midmonth stat check to keep us honest!  Every 15th of the month (A day early because of the short month this month) we'll post up some basic stats on the growth of the game. Right now here's what our automated test tool is telling us: Statistics: The game contains 1,242 dialogue blocks, containing 24,457 words and 137,305 characters, for an average of 19.7 words and 111 characters per block. The game contains 56 menus, 22 images, and 27 screens.

Another busy month at Modern Synthetic.  This month was spent doing a lot of polish, thanks to an amazing Beta tester we had enough to go through a full polish pass.  More scene transitions and art has been implemented in order to make things really feel like an interactive visual novel not a text-based interactive novel with some incidental art.  The display was prettied up and we got some nice polish adjustments like displaying a day and week as opposed to a numerical day.  We also cleaned up the events interface to improve its logic and provide a solid base for Another much-requested feature involved more programming than we've done so far, a character screen which will summarize your stats, what 'ware you have implanted, and your inventory. But not everything was just polish, we also finished up all the shopping, some more events, and a special segment of day burning the midnight oil for those true cyberpunks that are willing to alter their metabolism with 'war...