Progress Report 25-02

I'm gonna keep this short today, so here are the things I'm covering: Ep4 development status, Patreon subscription renewals, and personal things.

Ep4 Development

It's been a good month since I've been back at it (besides last week with a bunch of birthdays and holiday gatherings).

It turned out there was a bit I needed to rewrite early on with some complicated scenes based on past choices, and stuff I wasn't quite happy with. Additionally, I've been doing slightly more renders per lines of text than usual, which help convey more emotion/expression changes during conversation.

Patreon Subscription Renewals

In January I turned off automatic renewals until I was back doing full development work, and until I had an idea when the next release would be. Thank you again for allowing me to work through some things and get back to focusing on TaH.

So right now my plan is turn back on auto renewals starting in May.

I guess that also means I should say I'm anticipating a release sometime the first half of summer. I'm kinda thinking July, but this is just an early guess.

Personal

So while everything above the neck has been doing much better, I had my first life-threatening scare Tuesday with AFib. I didn't know what was happening, so thoughts of heart attack or stroke started running through my mind. The first 6 hours were highly irregular heartbeats/heartrates (my fitbit gave a bunch of warnings with 35-180bpm over this time). 12 hours later the irregular rhythms began to calm down. Then after getting some sleep I was feeling almost back to normal.

My dad has had these issues since he was 30, but he was also a heavy smoker most of his life. I guess it's time to once again go hard into fitness! I'd like to avoid a lifetime of medication like my dad is forced into.

Seriously, guys. Take care of your health. It's better to prevent issues than to deal with them after they arrive.

-ckr