Episode 5 Progress Update #10

Episode 5 Progress Update #10

Hey, everybody.

First off, I wanna apologize if there's any incoherence in this post and it seems a little rambly. I'm writing this kinda late and I forgot about the progress update.

Animations are done. I'm going to re-render one scene to make it a little better but it's almost finished. All of the animations seem to be working and are placed inside of the game.

The writing is pretty much done unless I skipped a scene for some reason. It's written but not edited.

For the coding, there are still some things I need to do. I did a quick playthrough skipping all of the dialogue and made it through to the end. Nothing broke, so that's good. But that doesn't necessarily mean everything's working.

In Episode 5, more than any episode so far, there are more variations in regards to results to the three dialogue options with the women. There are some lines that will change based on how you've spoken to each girl. Don't worry. You're not missing any specific content. The girls just react differently. It's kind of hard to explain and it's very subtle. But you'll see for yourself when you play through it. I'll go into more details after you've played it.

Other coding work I have to do is adding music. It takes a long time to find the right tracks for specific scenes. It really has to fit with the mood but it also can't be too distracting. I'm going to try to add more sound effects, too.

What's going to take most of the time is the editing though because it's such a long episode relative to previous episodes. In addition to making sure nothing breaks, I have to check the writing. It's not just making sure there are typos. I also change stuff around to make it sound better. If I'm going to make you read a bunch of dialogue, I'm going to try and make them as interesting as possible.

I don't know how long all of that will take but I like to polish things so that you get it as clean as possible. I don't want you playing something that's broken, buggy, and filled with mistakes. I want to get this as close to perfect as I can.

Thanks for your support, your patience, and your understanding. I should be able to get to special renders next week for the end of August. If you have any comments, complaints, suggestions, or questions, feel free to leave a message.

Talk to you soon.