DECEMBER Status Update! This is the end...

(the end of the year)
Development's still on-going!

First of all, Chapter 8 started in version 0.58.5 of the game, and the latest version 0.58.6 is out for Patreons in case you missed it before!

Originally, 0.58.6 was planned to just be some quick bugfixes, but the changelog ended up turning into a short novel. Many many gameplay improvements and important bugfixes. Normally I'd backport to the free version, that was the original plan, but basically so much got fixed/changed that you can't really apply those fixes to an older version anymore... But I'll go public, eventually!

Second of all, I'm not sure how/why, but we've hit an all time high of patreon subscribers!

If you would please consult the chart...

Not that I'm complaining, in fact I'm quite happy :-)
Unlike my stock portfolio, this line is going upwards!

What I have I done with my newfound patreonbucks, you ask?
Got a new computer. Judging by how the tech-degenerates are vacuuming up all the RAM on the market, I upgraded just in time...

Old Machine:
RTX 3070 8GB Vram
AMD RYZEN Something (12/16 cores?)
16GB RAM

New Machine:
RTX 5080 16GB Vram
Core 9 Ultra, 24 cores
32 GB Ram

Gotta say, really good timing to anyone who decided to join (or stay with) the Patreon these last months!

I'm very happy. The performance is really night and day. Working in Blender (3d program used for all the 'scenes') is like 1000% smoother now.

Scenes that used to be laggy as shit, can now be previewed in almost real-time, which really speeds things up.

For example, previously if I wanted to to preview an animation or something, my computer would only be able to play it at like 4 fps, e.g. laggy as shit.

So if you wanted to preview it smoothly you'd have to render it out to a movie/image sequence which could take anywhere between 15 minutes to 2 hours. (or turn of all the shaders etc). And then you notice a bunch of errors, and then you re-render it... and on it goes.

But now I can preview almost in realtime, even complicated scenes.

For example, even something like this with multiple animated characters, physics simulations, arrows flying etc... can be previewed quite smoothly.

Here are some gifs. If you don't see anything, they're probably just slow to load.
I'd post vids, but the platform fears what would happen if I received video posting privileges.

If something looks wonky, I will use "it's work in progress" as my excuse.

The jiggle physics runs smoothly as well, but I'm not allowed to post those in a public post.

In short, I'm looking forward to working more in Blender now!

Currently I'm working on a fairly complicated update. Spoilers for non-Patreons I guess.!

After the events of Chapter 8 (0.58.5) the party decides to "fix" the Protagonist and his lack of interest in human relationships, via a very a convoluted plan that involves going straight into the his goblin-addled mind...

… and there'll be some peeks into the dreamscapes of the three companions as well. What do dwarves dream of? The clips above were some work in progress stuff from the upcoming update.

Anyway, I'm getting back to work, so that's all for now. Also, there may be a smaller "in-between" update before the next big one!

Thank you for all you support this year, and in general, and see you later!