Progres report - Working on the epilogue (11/08/2023)

I hope the ending event is working as intended, I don't tested enough but it was very straight forward programming wise.
Spoilers ahead.

Epilogue details.

Although the epilogue takes in account multiple variables, the main one that determinates which escenario plays during the epilogue is "rei_trait_future", which was part of one of the important events. Now, this variable/trait was part of the ending event in some point in development, to make more clear that was the main responsible for the future of the couple, however, I throw it in the middle of an early event to add more dialogues about their future lifes, this is the reason why Evangeline sometimes talks about how many kids want from Rei or hint about their plans after graduation on common dialogues and phone-chat.

Structure wise, the epilogue will be a big CG slide show with a lot of variations depending on different circumstances, enough to make a difference between multiple playthroughs.
More spoilers ahead.

Bad endings.

We didn't mention bad endings before because these are very small and give the player the opportunity to go back in time. However, it would be good to mention these for anyone curious about it.

- The first bad ending will be triggered if Rei/The player is rude with Evan during her first time having sex, making her angry and really sad, this will lead to a breaking up scene the next day.

- The second bad ending will be trigger if the player was rude with Evan during sex before the ending event, this will lead to a variation of the ending where both Evan and Rei become distant over time and break up. This ending will have its own epilogue.

In both endings will be an option to return to the main menu or a previous point in the playthrough, giving the opportunity to patch things with Evangeline.

There are no real consequences for these endings and are not even part of the achievements that will be added later on the game. Just bad endings place on key momments to have some consequences for the player actions.
Even more spoilers ahead.

Pregnancy ending.

Since mid development people has been asking about pregnancy, of course because the game is mean to be play on an infinite loop for future content such as events and sex stuff, pregnancy would limit such aspects, however, the epilogue takes in account variables to make pregnancy part of it. The age and gender of Rei and Evan kids will vary depending on the future plans of the couple, Rei's gender and the point in time in which Evan gets pregnant.

That is all for now, I was aiming to release the build in the middle of the month but I have failed previously with other builds to deliver on time, so, before of the end of the month will be for sure.

Thanks for your support, until next time~