Progress update 9

Hey everyone!

Another progress up. Let's dive straight into.

University -4(5) weeks left
Annoying as always, let's start with uni. I think I can officially say that I am in the final stretch, meaning just entering the final month. The last week was an absolute pain and fiesta, because for the mandatory internship (yup) the university has (like many in my country tbh) the most incompetent workers and guidelines to follow. One of the days, I literally traveled to uni (rip 3 hours) to submit a paper, as per instructions... Just for them to decline it and say it's not needed now and I need to pick it back up the other day. Yay.

Ignoring their stupidity, I should end up in 4 (5) weeks with everything. Was supposed to be 4, but with this paperwork that they screwed me over, it kinda means I got pushed back by a week. Still, that's just that, the exams etc. all finish before that. So yea, keep that counter in mind, till then we continue with the slow progress as we had currently.
I also debated if I should again do like in January, take a month off (and possibly pause Patreon), but I see no use. All the annoying exams/projects/internship are quite spread out, meaning I am busy each week, but won't have like last time 3 weeks of pure hell.

Game progress
Less than planned with uni hiccups, but still some stuff done. Finished all renders for the first segment (technically 60 more renders related to the one I finished last time, but another location now). Now we are just shy of 1k, at 990 renders. I've also started writing the dialogue/script for the other half, and got to an extra 350 lines of code there.
Related to it, I shifted my initial plans slightly, onto what I think is smarter. Considering proofreading, bug fixing, etc., are usually at the end of the episode work, and take a few days for my proofreader/s to go through, I've decided to split it in half and just send the first half of the game to them to already work on it. Might save some time, right? Moreover, besides missing music, 2 images, and missing all the transitions between images, the first half is now "fully playable", and so far at least they didn't report any bugs, so that's why the other percentages changed. Probably a big jump in cleaning in next progress. Another thing that we (proofreaders and I) will attempt, is to try to further improve the dialogue. Naturally, my game won't suddenly become a book haha, nor will I really change my writing in some big way (I can't, at least not on some quick notice, I am so NOT used to writing in anything besides a simple way😂 ). But maybe we at least manage to iron out some phrases, remove some constant simple words that are repeated, etc. With how much time they have till I am done with ep4, they might even go through ep1-3 script and improve it too. This was a part I wanted to improve in Episode 4.5 update (the one I keep mentioning due to me wanting to improve some renders), but I decided to make this sooner rather than later.

Tl:DR for those hating my long posts.
4-5 weeks of uni and super slow progress left
a bit more renders, back to dialogue writing
First half playable, sent for proofreading, improving dialogue possibly in earlier content too

As always, I love you all for your patience, and I hope I can see you all at the finish line too!

Stay safe,
Kat <3