Dev Log : What's Going On?

Fun times : Go on - what NON-sexual thing is going on in this image? What's being said? What's happening? Drop it in the comments below. Best answer gets a .. eermm .. Like?? :)

But on a wider scale - what's been going on with Behind the Curtain this last week?

Still in clean up on Chapter 2 .. this week I've been doing a few things :

1 - Re-rendering some older images that had been originally rendered in HD as I wasn't too happy with the "low res" image and so redone them in 4k.

2 - There's an internal flag system within the code that tracks choices and decisions you make through the VN so you'll get different versions of some scenes (or some new scenes all together) depending on the choices you'd made previously. I'd done it an old sledgehammer way originally but I changed it to a more swanky dynamic way when tidying up Chapter 1 and so am having to bring Chapter 2 up to date.

3 - Making the flow between scenes a little more fluid. Some scenes would just STOP. Now while it was perfectly fine from a narrative perspective for the scene to stop - I felt a few transitions between one scene and the next were a little jarring and abrupt. So I've added a few intermediate images to the scene transitions to smooth it out a little. So for instance - instead of two characters conversations seemingly just ending and then onto the next scene - I've added an image or two showing one character walking away for example so we know the scene has ended.

4 - Talking of scene endings. I'm about to re-add a scene ending that I'd included originally but then removed as I think it took the focus away from an event that had happened in that scene. But now - I've decided to put it back as it makes sense and provides motivation for a future scene (coming in Chapter 3). There's no extra rendering as it's all done, no extra dialogue for likewise reasons - I just need to integrate it back in.

So I'll be continuing with these little things this week and then .. that .. will .. be .. it.

Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 before my birthday at the end of this month.

And then I can take a little rest ..

.. before I got to start on Chapter 3.