Hi there, thanks so much for the kind words.

Logic-based battles may well make an appearance in the follow-up, most likely as part of the dialog options to help add a little colour. I do like a bit of tactical meat to things, which is why I decided to try implementing a 'proper' battle system as well. I've previously prototyped some things in an X-com and Disgaea style, but the AI systems proved a bit much for me, so hopefully I can get something interesting working in a more streamlined way.

The base engine work is close to finished for the GameMaker version now, and I hope to start getting stuck into the actual content over the next week. All going according to plan, it should be released in a couple of months. Hard to say how it'll turn out at this point, I'm just trying my hardest to make the kind of thing I'd like to play. I hope you guys will like it too. After release I'm thinking of putting out a 'template' version of the engine for whoever would like to use it, but it'll probably take a little while to strip it back to a fairly blank state, along with writing up the docs.

So cheers again, hope to have something worth playing fairly shortly.