Another progress update

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Apologies for the Patreon silence for the past three-ish weeks. Unfortunately, there wasn't too much to say. As much as I'd like to post updates on the regular. I'd always like for it to be something more fruitful than "I'm still working on it 👍"

I'm rendering as we speak. The long chapter I was alluding to has been written. It'll take a grand total of 549 renders/animations. I've already done over 100 of these so far and hope to complete the chapter in the next 7-10 days. I've always been bad at predicting deadlines, so here's hoping.

If you remember, I explained my new approach to the word/render ratio that I implemented in the latter parts of episode 1. As it currently stands, with this chapter being fully written, Episode 2's word count is 44% the size of Episode 1's. This chapter is long in an outlier kind of way, so future chapters should be faster to produce. I have plans for 1 more chapter of similar scope in this episode, though it is too early to tell how complex that chapter is supposed to be. Like always, I will keep you guys updated.

For more clarity in the numbers, writing that past paragraph prompted me to do some further calculations. Comparing the current Episode 2, to the section of Episode 1 that comprises the slave market to the end of the episode; Episode 2 has 84% the amount of renders, and 81.5% the amount of words.

I can't wait to show off more of this episode. Once I've built up a few more renders in the next few days, I can post a sneak peek for my Resonant and higher Patrons. Overall, I'd say progress is still good. Maybe slower than episode 1's progress but again, this game is hard to make at the quality level I want (even though the game isn't nearly as good as I want), and by the looks of it, I'm going to be releasing my game in chunks of huge episodes as opposed to small, frequent updates. As plans stand, this episode is larger than the last. As long as everyone is satisfied with the amount of content in each release, I think we can forgive the development times.

If the opposite happens. Then I guess I'll need to re-evaluate my workflow and planning.

But that's all in the future. Just know for now, I'm working on the game, there are a lot of words, there are a lot of renders, there are a lot of animations. Same as always.

Look forward to a sneak peek soon if you're subscribed to that tier.

Posts should hopefully become more frequent as I move on to the smaller chapters in the future.

As always, thanks for your patience and continued support. I couldn't do it without you guys.

- Gary