Weekly update No 5: It's coming...

Morning!

A briefer than usual update from me this week, largely as we're getting close to release and I realise that if I'm -too- chatty I may well spoil things. Which would be bit silly given the release is that close.

But! I do need to be accountable so, what's the gen?

Firstly the render hamster has been working like a devil. Progress is better than good and it looks like the renders will all be done by Thursday. That gives me a couple of days to play it through to ensure we have no odd compositions or add the odd render in if I feel the need to do so.

As to content this Chapter, we have the following high level summary:

Annie: Four paths
Sarah good route: Three paths
Sarah bad route: Three paths
Chris trainer route: Two paths
Chris non-trainer: No specific path
Trisha : Two paths
Marcus: Three paths
Mike: One path only
Kelly: Two paths to start the SL

This excludes the impact on other characters from decisions you make down paths of course. But now you see why I need so many renders :)

Also don't let that little summary make you think your fav gal hasn't her fair share of content. Annie's multiple paths actually can have quite the impact on what happens with the others as well as give you some additional insight into them. I'm curious to know what you will make of the Piper Palace story for those of you that find it...

I'll be releasing the game in two versions this month. The $5 version and a higher level tier version for those that get Bored Pilot etc. Now, the differences are not huge, largely the inclusion of BP but since BP is canon in this universe there is an additional small scene for those of you brave enough to mention her appearance in the mag to our Chief Engineer. It seemed counter intuitive that the MC could well have seen her (and crikey he would have seen quite a lot!...) and wouldn't have the option to mention it.

I'll confess I'm not a fan of having additional story content in game for different levels (as opposed to extras which is totes different) but it seemed not giving the MC the option to mention it was even worse. Anyhoo, it's only a small piece. No more than about twenty lines of dialogue and it solved a problem. 

I -think- that's about it, other than I've been spending your money on assets of course and have started pricing up a new graphics card. It looks like I might be able to upgrade to a 6GB card without having to replace the entire PC and that should make a huge difference I hope. I'll keep you informed on that one.