v.0.31 Progress report (VII - and last, I hope)

It looks like I underestimated my own verbosity in last week’s report.

I said last week, “There’s only a big scene remaining (#10) and it has been half-written for some weeks. Then there are some small scenes (#9, #11, #12, #13, #18, and #20) and one medium scene (#19).”

Well, you know (because you read the changelogs, right?) that, for me, a big scene is over 2,500 words, a medium one is 1,001-2,500, and a small one is 500-1,000.

Let’s go with what I did this week:

• Scene #9: 713 words (I complied!). New this week: 413 words and 34 renders. Finished and tested.

• Scene #10: 2,141 words (it didn’t get Big, finally). New this week: 1,337 words and 162 renders. Finished and tested.

• Scene #11: New this week: 746 words and 50 renders. I complied once again! Finished and tested.

• Scene #12: New this week: 1,053 words and 80 renders. It went from Small to Medium. Finished and tested.

• Scene #13: New this week: 1,277 words and 89 renders. It went from Small to Medium. Finished and tested.

• Scene #18: New this week: 1,065 words and 66 renders. It went from Small to Medium. Finished and tested.

• Scene #19: New this week: 2,176 words and 120 renders. I complied! Finished and tested.

• Scene #20: New this week: 1,343 words and 24 renders. It went from Small to Medium. Around 50 more renders to finish it (and the update).

I was expecting to write around 7,500 words and I ended up doing 9,408 (estimated, pre-translation). I didn’t calculate the renders before writing, but if the words increased by 25%, I can guess the needed renders did too. I’ve done 625 renders, out of 675 needed, this week. So, I guess the original plan would have needed around 540 renders.

TL;DR: This week I’ve written 9,408 words and rendered 625 images. Finished writing 8 scenes and rendering and testing 7 of them. The update is 35,873-word long (second biggest ever, pre-translation), has 2,862 dialogue lines (biggest ever), over 2,050 still renders (biggest ever), 41 animations with 10,679 frames.

I told you I was going to finish the update (pre-translation) during the week, but the increase in size, and an unforeseeable event with my wife, didn’t allow me to do it. The plan continues as it was last week. Finish the 50 renders and test the last scene, translate and send the update to proofread as soon as possible, and release the update during next week.

Back to work! Those 50 renders aren’t going to pose themselves.

Oh, and one more thing I haven’t told you: In this update we will see a lot of new people. Nine new male characters and ELEVEN new female characters (even if you will only see seven of them in a single playthrough). +Cough+ +Cough+. We have heard about some of them before, but we will see them for the first time. None of them are Lis, but I’ve spent a lot of time designing those 20 new characters. And enjoyed every minute of it.