Chapter 1 development status. #10

Hi everyone,

It’s been about a month since the last dev update, so I figured it’s time to share what I’ve been up to and how things are going. Originally, the plan was to release the project by the end of summer, but that’s looking pretty unlikely now. While working on the menu system and some other features, I ran into a few bugs. None of them were game-breaking—the game actually worked fine with them—but some were worth addressing. For example, hitting “Return to Main Menu” would throw the player back to the “warning” screen before the title screen. Just a small example, but you get the idea. Some bugs might never have shown up during a normal playthrough, but they could’ve caused issues later on with updates, so fixing them now felt necessary. The good news is: all of that cleanup is done.

I’ve also added a few more scenes to the plan, which obviously takes extra time. Right now, rendering a single image takes about 1 hour 15–20 minutes. That’s pretty slow, and unfortunately, I can’t leave my PC running overnight—it keeps me from sleeping—so rendering only happens while I’m at work. When I get home, I set up new poses, and then the cycle repeats. At the moment, I’ve got 1,020 renders finished, with around 40 left in the queue. On top of that, I’m going back through all the sound effects and music to make sure every scene has the most fitting audio. Thankfully, most of that part is already done.

I won’t be sharing any previews before the next update drops, but here’s an older piece of artwork I always meant to post and never did.

Thanks so much for your patience and continued interest—it really means a lot. Talk to you soon!