I haven't finished the quest yet. I thought I would be over this week, quite honestly, but despite putting a decent amount of time into the game and I managed to do some good progress, I didn't quite close the whole deal. It's a mix of "the project was slightly too ambitious for a side-quest" "I keep re-thinking what items/rewards to give to the players" and a hint of "what the fuck was I thinking when I wrote this scene?!?". I kept re-working several times things I had done before, so a lot of the work I made was completely useless and will never be seen again, as it has been changed radically, or has been removed from the game.
The good news is that stuff got done anyway, and I have a basic plan for almost everything left to add to the quest, so it shouldn't be as much of a pain in the ass to put together. It's slightly less great than I thought it would be, but maybe I can improve on it once I have the quest complete, by adding touches here and there.
The pure awesomeness is you guys. I seriously am amazed by how generous you are. This week I got 35 € from S.M. and 60 € from Y.C. (to answer your question: there is a planned male crew member as a new NPC, and a boyfriend relationship might be added, in the form of Russell, the owner of the lonely mermaid. I am not sure if I'll do it, because of the usual problem of Celeste having no male partners in her galleries, and because romances are difficult to handle in a open-ish world game like TOTDC, and I am having trouble already with just two incomplete romances in place. I would like to, though).
As I like to remind to everyone who donated, if you want you can drop me an e-mail or a PM over at the Hypnopics collective, if you can think of something you would like as a reward (suggest a scene, name someone/something after you, access to closed betas), I would be happy to hear you out.
And now, the one thing you are actually looking for when you come to see this blog: Intros of awesome/weird anime!
This week, we are featuring the italian version of the opening of Daitarn 3:
To quote TV tropes: James Bond With A Humongous Mecha And Blue Hair!
If that doesn't sound awesome to you, you clearly hate fun!
I think this anime has no english version, which is really sad, because it was really fun. It didn't took itself seriously at all, and yet managed to have drama, in a weird way. It is something of an anomaly among anime with big stompy mechs, and it subtly mocks its own genre without condemning it.
Well, this is it, folks, at least until next week! ;)
