CH05 Status Update #45
Added 2023-09-22 19:32:20 +0000 UTCHello, everyone!
This week we'll quickly reflect on the size of CH05, development decisions and some other little things. But we'll try to keep the status update short regardless.
Current status first. This week was more hectic than expected. All the little things that we've pushed to the back burner are now rapidly being brought back as we wrap everything up. But despite the work being hectic, it's been quite enjoyable as every mark on the checklist brings us one step closer to being done. Marvelous.
And then the size of CH05... Early on in the development cycle, we made the decision to combine the evening and night content into one release. Back then it felt like a cool and good ideaβmore content for the update, right? But later we realized that okay, there's actually a lot do to until we reach the end, because we knew exactly how and where we wanted to end the update.
The render count ended up being almost 3x the size of CH04, with 3500 renders and then some! Not including Ember renders and some variations. We'll have a more thorough breakdown of the numbers in the actual release notes.
One looong development cycle later, Summer Heat is almost here...
As a reminder, the release dates are as follows:
Enthusiast+ tiers: Friday, October 13th
Player tier: Sunday, October 15th
What we did this week:
- Editing/playtesting Ember content
- Couple of outfits for extra renders
- Reworked the night ambience
- Spot-rendering some fixes
- A lot of Blender morphs
- To-do list grinding
- Scripting 0.6
- Felled a tree
- Songs & SFX
- Renders
- Coding
Other news
The special render poll for September has ended and the winner is Sophie.
Cheers and have a great weekend!
Robison & Npx
Comments
Got'cha, and good call.. you guys make a good quality game, I'd love for the game to do very well so we can continue to play this a couple of years.
Jonathan Karlsson
2023-09-26 14:29:10 +0000 UTCHey Jonathan! We're not huge fans of the long development time either and that's why we're going to be returning to shorter, more frequent updates with 0.6 π
Npx
2023-09-24 14:48:04 +0000 UTCJust my personal opinion, not sure if everyone else agrees. But. I feel like the amount of time between updates is way too long, makes (at least me) loose interest in the game. In the beggining the updates were more frequent, and i think you should go back to try to release an update a month. Dosent have to be mega big, just a new chapter with some gameplay. Just my opinion, do with it what you will
Jonathan Karlsson
2023-09-24 11:01:50 +0000 UTCAs always, thanks for the newsπ₯ Dont forget to get some free time for urself sometimes. Cant wait for the update, have a good one πͺ
TheNative
2023-09-23 01:13:07 +0000 UTCThat is a lot of things you guy did this week. We're getting closer!!! Can't wait for that Sophie render.
Jonathan Hang
2023-09-22 21:11:25 +0000 UTC
