"Chapters" 6 & 7 & 8 (aka months of May, June and July) are finished and I will be starting to work on the final two months shortly. ︀︀June and July are sparse in events, but have major story developments alongside August and (maybe) September.
I should note that August is quite content dense with September being (in spirit) the endgame.
Once the story is complete, I will focus on the last feature: Arcade mode progression. What I'm thinking of is this:
Vehicle unlocking remains the same as it is now.
The arcade mode won't change, but a feature will be added instead.
I'm thinking this feature will be unlocking concept art and lore pieces that can be accessed on the right side of the main menu.
Completing a cup with a vehicle gives you 1 point and 1 more point is added for each difficulty up to special, where it counts the same as completing the tournament in beyond. (so, 3 or 4 points if you finish at beyond or above),
Finishing up to 3rd place still gives you the points, an Initial philosophy that I went in while designing this game was that first place would never be required for the completion of anything. I personally find the insistence that you should always come first in a racing game annoying and overused.
To get all the points you have to beat every cup with every vehicle on the hardest difficulty and there will be a menu that tracks such completion.
However, you will only need a fraction (lets say half, or a third) to unlock all of the "Gallery". Overall completion percentage will not be counted and there will not be an achievement.
(May not happen) Completing the story mode unlocks the "Story Kestrel", were you are able to play as the vehicle you built in the story mode. For now it is unclear to me if this should be its own vehicle or a variant of the main kestrel.
What do you guys think?
