[Progress Report]: 9th of June
Added 2024-06-10 04:34:49 +0000 UTC
Hey everyone,
There are two weeks left until the next Early Build release and, let me tell you, that's not enough time!
Above you'll see an image from the previous poll event winner, Valentina! I'm alternating between large story events and these smaller sandbox events to try and pace myself as I work toward getting to the deadline. Right now, I am hoping for seven events, which will requirement no small amount of crunch! It would have been nine, but I needed to spend the first week designing the new character to debut, which is where the time went!
I'm aiming for some superhuman effort this week to finish out the above event and two more, with a dash of desperation that the next animation event will be kind to me and now take five days. All of that said...
This development cycle was actually quite nice. I got a good amount of exercise in, ate better, and in general feel much healthier than I have in months, which has translated to minimal writers' block and a much easier time story boarding. I have more time to plan out other improvements the game needs, the most pressing of which, to me, will be a personal wiki to sort out the main story. I will begin work on that after the Early Build has come out, and it's completion should dramatically increase the speed with which I write.
With the computer upgraded, the two largest bottlenecks to development are locating new assets, writing the story, and coding. More or less in that order when they're all relevant. I don't always need new assets, and I'm not always writing new code, so the story itself is the most time consuming segment to produce. Having something to streamline that would be helpful beyond what words can describe, and I'll be investing significant time in the future to fleshing it out.
Also, no, the wiki will not be available to the public because, aside from spoilers, it will contain all of my unfinished plot threads, which will thrash expectations around unnecessarily.
All right, that's it for me this week! I've got some hard rendering to do, so wish me luck!
Thank you for all of your support,
~Solace
