[We Were Just Kids] Progress Report - 9/6/2021
We Were Just Kids:
- As of this post, We Were Just Kids is at about 350 renders, not including the 2 animations (Technically 4 if you include the other angles of those animations.). I'd like to say there's some noticeable improvement in both lighting and animations (again), but I'll let you guys be the judge of that.
- Writing is on track, though. I'm a good three quarters done with it. I'm usually pretty careful with typos, but naturally some'll be missed. So, still have to do some editing here and there. I'm sure some'll be picked up by the Patreon's in the early-releases (probably more accurate to say beta testers, but I try to keep those game-breaking errors to myself and get them fixed. Not that there's a ton of them regardless, as the code is hardly complicated in WWJK). Hint: Feel free to message me anywhere with any errors you pick up.
- Post is where I'm really behind right now. There's about a 150-ish done currently, so probably about 200 still needing some work in places, and I'm not quite done with rendering for this release either. I'm pretty decent with Photoshop, though, so it shouldn't take long to get through all of them.
- I've been cleaning up some mistakes and possible consistency issues that may crop up later. I'm not sure how much of this will fuck up old saves, apologies if it does. That said, I'll be adding a chapter jump in the intro once the VN starts getting longer.
- I've been thinking about re-doing the first release with updated lighting. Not only because it probably needs it, but if I want to make it Steam-friendly, I'm gonna need to take out some of the not so copyright friendly stuff shown early on. Not sure if I should do it as I go/have free time or if I should wait until the VN is done. May put a poll up at some point.
That's about it for the WWJK-related stuff. Feel free to check out some of the renders above. Now onto some personal stuff/news, for anyone that might be interested.
Personal Stuff:
There's a couple things that are making my life pretty hectic right now. The first being work coming back on. It's not currently affecting We Were Just Kids at all, just sort of giving me less time to put more detail into some of the renders. Or more specifically, the environments.
Secondly, my (idiot) sister is staying for a week or so with a crying child. I'd tell her to fuck off, but then I'd have to hear about it from family. But it ain't the kid's fault that her parents can't get their damn acts together. Eh, whatever. This isn't the place for family drama. Just not sure how much this'll slow down my work flow, if at all.
On a less serious note, Phineas released their new album and god damn is it good. Been on repeat all week. Probably AOTY so far. Have to wait for Spiritbox and Sleep Token before I declare that, though.
That's it for now. :)