Where is the second chapter?
Hello everyone!
A month ago I wrote this post about my plans concerning the second chapter and promised to release it in the middle of June. Unfortunately, it had not taken place.
And there are 2 reasons for that.
The first one is my computer didn't have enough capacity to perform such a complicated work. It became especially obvious when I noticed that night frames with limited light source were rendered a few times longer. Thus, if in the first chapter rendering of one image took me 4-8 hours and only sometimes exceeded 18 (for example, the scene in the bathroom with "Maria"), now almost every frame demands more than 12 hours. Also, if there are more than 3 people in the scene, the program fails due the lack of the RAM. So I got to join the characters in Photoshop.
The second reason is the increased size of the chapter. If first I planned to make a chapter of 8 subchapters and 300-350 full HD images, now I'm planning to make nearly 10 subchapters and 400 images. So far about 245 of those are complete. Of course I could reduce the number of frames, but I don't really like it in games when it goes 10-15 text lines for each frame. And I guess you'll agree with me on that one. It doesn't matter how good is the text, you almost never want to keep on reading if there's nothing going on the screen. My another excuse could be the image quality which has became much better than in the first chapter.
So, what are we going to do now?
I decided to devide the second chapter in two parts. First I'm going to release the 0.1.7 version, and full chapter a little bit later.
Why can't I just wait and release the whole chapter at once?
The thing is many people have supported the game. They wrote their reviews on forums, pointed out mistakes in text or warned me about new rules of the patreon, and many other things. And all I want is to find a way to thank these people and meet their hopes.
Right now I already have 110 followers and 10 patreons!
Sure, I mostly feel bad for those ones who invested their money in the game. I've already saved up $86 and it's one third of the whole sum I need for translation. It means I even may eat some decent food in July…
THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
So, the plan is as follows.
I'm going to release the 0.1.7 version by July, 15th.
And I'm going to release the full second chapter by July, 31st.
The 0.1.7 version will be available for everyone, but the 0.2 will first be for patreons only. This will be my way of thanking those people.