A simplification of plans

The rush to actually get an episode out really did take away from that episode. If you haven't played through the episode, please do so before reading this section as there are spoilers in the following paragraphs. Here is what my original plans were.

First, the bank line up would have been timed as before, but instead of talking to a single person repeatedly, there would be multiple people who could be clicked on. When clicked on, those people would speak the comments in the same order as they appear in the final version. There would have also been a cut seen so that instead of being told that the person at the single open teller was your ex-boss, you would cut to the ex-boss hitting on the teller leaving it up to the player to figure out the fact that the person is the ex-boss. You would only be able to click on each person once. This is not that big of a change, though would have required a bit more logic behind the conversation system, and the working in of a cut scene which would involve more artwork as an image for the teller being hit on would probably also have been needed.

The bank robbers would appear after the fourth conversation or when the time ran out. After shooting your ex-boss, there would have ended up being an extended sequence determining the hostage. I would have gone the holly wood route of having the original hostage being someone else and the player talking the robbers into taking them as the hostage.

Why would the player want to be the hostage? Two reasons. First, the hostage would have been a pregnant woman (yes, I would have lowered myself down to the lowly level of playing with primitive human emotions). If this wasn't enough to get the player to volunteer to be the hostage within the conversation tree, I would have either had the player being shot, or more likely would have had the criminals using the in-humanity of the player as an excuse to take the player as a hostage instead of the pregnant woman.

This was changed as it would have required work to put together the conversation tree, and additional artwork as the pregnant woman would have had to been created, as well as a more elaborate version of the criminal to show that they were going to be taking this pregnant woman hostage.