Episode 5 - Progress Report #20

Hey everyone

So... the report is a little late today, because I really wanted to finish all renders before I post it. Which I did! 😀

Here's the progress:

• Writing: 100%

• Character models: 100%

• Environments: 100%

• Renders: 100%

  • Day 14: 378/378

  • Day 15: 817/817

  • Day 16: 436/436

  • Day 17: 434/434

  • Music/Sound: 0%

📆 Release dates

• Gold, Silver: October 22nd

• Bronze, itch.io: October 29th

• Public release: November 12th

All this amounts to 2065 new renders in total! 😮

What's left to do? First is music and sound. I'll spend a couple days looking for fitting songs and SFX. As the game grows I already have a decent music library in the game, so with every release should it be a little easier to find music.

I also still need to post-process about 300 images, some of which are still in the render queue, waiting to be rendered. (The number of renders above are the amount of renders I have finished in Daz Studio and are ready to render. That is the biggest bulk of work, which is why I use that as the number for the progress. Post-processing in comparison is usually done in less than a minute per render.)

Next up is a small list of various fixes I need to do, both in renders and in text. This should be done relatively quickly. And after that it's just testing and more testing. In this episode there is a ton of story variations depending on your choices, both big and small, that need to be taken into account when testing. So this will probably take a little longer than usual.

Finally I'll also need to convert all PNG images to WEBP and build distributions. And then we're done! 🥳

I'm really excited for this release, and can't wait to see all your discussions, theories and feedback. Not much longer now! 😊

❤️ Thanks for all your support! Enjoy your weekend! ❤️