Development update #4 - Chapter 3

Hi 👋 new weekly devlog.

4th week of development, and I made it to 410 total renders, which is good considering there are still 2 days left of rendering before the month ends. It's also good because I didn't even spend the whole week just rendering.

I worked on some new characters that are gonna show up in Chapter 3, and to be honest... they took way longer than I expected. I had a whole battle with their skins, they looked bad and fixing it was painful 🫩

Then I ended up completely redoing the script. I realized it was going way too deep into character development, like... too much text. It was starting to feel boring, and I don't want that. I feel like you can understand a character by how they act in certain situations instead of just reading a ton of dialogue. Plus I prefer focusing more on the apocalypse side, tension, suspense, all that.

So yeah, I rewrote everything just in time before committing to rendering the old version. The new script is way better. Especially for a 2000 render chapter. You can't really go too heavy on one thing, you gotta balance character development, apocalypse stuff, NSFW, new characters, everything.

Oh, and I also tried making a small animation for immersion, but I didn't like how it turned out, so yeah... wasted like 2 hours on that 🙃

And that's pretty much everything I did this week, it’s been a really good month of development so far.

Hope you all have a great week.

—pixelend 🧟