Dev log!

Good day, my dears!

I’m back with another weekly devlog! (Almost weekly. I’ve honestly completely lost track of time at this point...)

These past couple of weeks have been pretty intense. There was so much stuff I had to get done that I completely fell out of my usual rhythm. Literally: sleep → renders → work, work → renders → sleep, and occasionally remembering to eat something. But anyway, that’s not really important. Plenty of people have much worse schedules, so... yeah.

P.S. (And thank you so much for all your support. It genuinely gives me the strength to keep working, both mentally and physically :D)

Now, about the game. At the moment, I’d say it’s roughly 90% complete. The text is finished, the code is still in progress, and the renders... Yeah. The renders are a bit of a problem. Over the past two weeks, I managed to make only around 600 renders instead of the planned 1,000. I simply don’t have enough hours in the day to physically get everything done. So, as a result, development has been delayed a little.

Animations? Halfway there. I’ve finished Alice’s animations, and in the meantime I’ve been working on Tia’s. As for the scenes themselves, there were a couple of moments in the story that I wasn’t happy with, so I had to add some extra scenes. Which, naturally, means even more work.

And somewhere between all of that, I didn’t forget to remind myself that I should probably improve my writing skills. Then I remembered how talentless I am and decided to leave that problem for the final polishing stage.

Moving on! I’ve also been implementing the text and code into the game. Right now, I’m at around 3,700 lines of code out of 8,000. On the bright side, the update itself is going to be noticeably longer, roughly 6-7 hours, which I guess isn’t too bad. I’m hoping I can get everything done by the end of this week, or at least reach the testing stage, but there’s still... quite a bit of work left. (Come on. Get it together.)

Anyway, I’ve already talked about the update itself before, and almost nothing has changed story-wise since then. There are really only two things I’m still debating. First: whether I should add more action and comedy, or focus more on emotional/heartfelt scenes and cut back on the action. And second: which of the terrible possible endings for this part I should choose.

And I think I’ve finally found the perfect point in the story to cut this part off. And I guess... that’s everything?

Oh! Somewhere in between all of this, I’ve also been working on Astreon, going over a few parts of the story and figuring out what I want to do with them. The result?

I’ve decided to keep the drama after all, but give the protagonist more “cool” moments. So expect lots of epic stuff, lots of elves, and political games! (In theory.)

And that’s al— Ah. Right. Numbers!

Renders: 1600 / 2000
Text: 42k / 42k
Animations: 10 / 20
H-scenes: 1 / 2
Lines of code: 3,700 / 8,000
Music: 1 Michael Jackson / 10

Okay. Now that’s definitely everything. Thank you all for your support!

Take care, and I'll see you again next week!