Salutations!

If you’ve been following Tea for Two on Tumblr or Bluesky, you know that we’ve been continuing development on Alien Incrementum throughout the summer and fall! Slow but steady progress has been made, and we’re very pleased to inform you that Margot’s route is complete and in-game!

This past month, we’ve been having playtesters try out Margot’s route! Their feedback has been incredibly important to us, and we’ve learned a lot from everyone’s notes. Below, we’d like to share some of the feedback we've received and how we’re addressing it! We’re taking you behind the scenes of Alien Incremetum!

Opening Timeline

Alien Inc has a lot going on, especially in the beginning of the game; there’s a lot of information to share! However, our players found the game’s nonlinear storytelling in Chapter One to be a little disorientating. 

As such, we adjusted the visual novel’s opening to be more linear time-wise. With less time jumps, both back and forth, players can absorb this new world around them in a more digestible way! 

Earning the Good Ending

While we set out to make Margot’s route a smidgen harder than Adrianne’s, we ended up making it a tad too hard! Playtesters felt the threshold for Margot’s good ending was too high. Some were taken aback when they received the bad ending, having thought to be on track for the good one instead. As such, we are adjusting the thresholds for earning Margot’s good or bad endings! 

Exposition

While Adrianne might speak her inner thoughts in a more narrator-like way, that style of thinking didn’t suit our Margot! We wrote her inner monologue with a more personal twist, describing less of what she sees and more so what she feels! However, some lines still read as far too expository, so we’ve been combing through Margot’s thoughts for any lines that feel out of place!

There are lots of smaller tweaks we’ll be adjusting in the coming weeks, but these are our big ones! If all goes well, we are hoping to open our final casting call for the game at the end of this month!

Players also gave the game a lot of love! We’ve been told that Margot and Al’s relationship is adorable, our art is cozy and unique, and the character arcs are thoroughly explored and engaging.

Thank you for your continued support of Alien Incrementum! We can’t wait to release this big update!

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