Don't want to make this topic "dragon" but

 

Pic related because I live in a Dragon state. BFD is where it's at, and my mind is in the right place  :)

Hello guys today I am going to bitch about my plan for the game's release for a short while. This is a very minor thing that might not seem like it warrants a whole ass blog post to it, but it's my blog, and I make all the decisions, and it's related to development, which is the whole damn point of this blog.

 If for some godforsaken reason BFD gains a following, perhaps even a fandom after the chapter 1 demo is released, I fear this part of the story in isolation will prime them into expecting chapter 2 to be the same in terms of style, tone, themes etc. 

Unfortunately, protagonist 2 is a very different guy from protagonist 1, and his struggles and lifestyle are unique to him, so it makes little sense for the two perspectives to be consistent with one another in those previously mentioned ways. 

This may or may not piss people off. When chapter 2 comes out, there will be some tonal whiplash that could make it feel like an entirely separate game. People got invested in the perspective of chapter 1, and the switch could throw them off, maybe make them feel cheated and deceived as to what BFD really is.

Obviously I'm going to preface basically every post and update and whatever else with a statement of chapter 2's distinctive nature from chapter 1 and that CHAPTER 1 IS NOT REPRESENTATIVE OF THE WHOLE GAME, THERE'S A WHOLE 'NOTHER WORLD OUT THERE JUST WAITING TO BE EXPLORED. I may have to do this for chapters 3, 4, and 5 as well, but hopefully people will have gotten the point by then.

I suspect this would be less of an issue if I released every chapter at once like I originally planned given there's less of a time sink between chapters from not being actively developed, though people would still probably get at least a little mad.

For the record, this is not a post about how I'm changing the release schedule or that I'm even considering changing the release schedule. The demo containing chapter 1 will be first, and hopefully all will be well.