A Short Review Of The Past Week

Good morning,

I've decided to write this now before it get's even later and I can almost write the next report.
So I want to reflect a little on the 0.6.0.0 update and talk about what's next.

First of all I'm really happy that the update is done now. On Friday even the thought of writing another "I need more time" report made my stomach turn... I didn't want to write it but at the same time I just couldn't get it done. I then worked through Saturday and was at least able to finish one of the two routes for Ugotha. But it took the whole day yesterday to finish the second route.
What's now taken so long was on the one side additional content that I added in such as some more transition animations as well as Bianca now being able to join the group outside the mine (I hope I have edited in enough for all the different situations such as Tia's quest and others where partymembers join/leave the group, if someone finds the time, a playthrough in which Bianca is in group from as early as possible would be appreciated). - Would require for Lyvia's content to be completed, other than that I think that's it for requirement.

The choice to go this step for Bianca now and not in a future update came when I made the decision to add the passage to the banditcamp. I definitly wanted to have a way to access the goblin village easily. So originally I had planned to add a connection to Gavina's valley and the camp. For now only the connection to the camp made it, since I decided that this would be most convenient and easiest to access. But yeah when leaving for the camp this would have meant Bianca has to stay in the mine... so that's why I decided to go the extra mile and made her able to join group outside the mine now. It also fit with the story of the quest as Bianca wanted to leave the valley behind. - There are now of course no animations for all the defeat scenes, something I will add in the future when I have the time.

Anyway. It was fun working on this new area and the goblin village will get more content in the future so that the inbetween times can be better filled out. For example I want to add fishing to the game in the future, and fishing there would make for a good activity and then there are of course the other 2 routes for Nibblina and Snikka that also want to be implemented + content for both if you've gone the Ugotha route.

But for now I will leave the goblin village behind.
Plans for today are to first write the changelog for 0.6.0.0, then update the walkthrough and then do some last fixes for 0.6.0.0 + adding something I forgot (remembered it last night when going to bed).

When that is done I'll directly begin with working on Imawyn's bonusscene. It is fitting that this is now about her, since I will make use of that to also add Bianca to the feast scene at the camp. I don't know how long this scene will take me, probably depends on how much I add on top... for example I really really wanted to update Imawyn's armor.... all her older dialog images (which I just saw again during the tests) need an update. But that would then also mean that I have to update her images at prison, during emily's kidnapping... just so you get an idea. But I think it would be worth it and is a good preparation for her future update.

Since the work on the bonusscene will begin, it is also time to decide about the next addition to the bonusscene poll. So I'm looking forward to suggestions on discord or via pm. We will then have another pre vote on discord to decide which option will be added to the poll. before it then goes life probably early next week. So as soon as we have enough ideas I'll start the prevote, it will most likely end on monday next week (I'll also inform you about this in my coming friday report).

Anyway, a lot to do! I want to get to Arianna's update as quickly as possible.
Hope you all had a good start into the week, I'll give you another update on Friday!