Episode 2 weekly progress 7
Added 2021-12-01 00:11:49 +0000 UTCAaaaaaaaaand endgame is near.
Jokes aside, most scenes are done. What is essentially of scenes left is photoshoping a few (like adding effects, erasing some irregularities, or vignettes) and trying to make an animation in two small scenes. I will give it a go for a day or two, if I don't make something decent I will just leave it as pictures and add animations in ep3 instead. Don't want to waste too much time, especially as they aren't that important (for now) anyway.
So if scenes and dialogue parts are mostly done, what is left?
Everything else.
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Ok it's not that bad.
Photoshop/animation attempts that I mentioned => 2/3 days.
Music => 1-2 days.
Scripting the values/IDs system - unknown. (This one could be either in a matter of an hour or longer. Basically just gotta find how exactly to make that I can add extra characters and values to the game without people needing to restart the game each episode. Almost every game has it setup right so shouldn't be that hard, I hope.)
Aaaaand the elephant in the room. Gallery mode. I did some prep work before, and I went through a tutorial but what I plan to have and what the tutorial ends up with is night and day. Probably gonna be similar to animation system. If I manage to figure it out quickly I will go through it, if it ends up a time sink I will leave for ep3.
Lastly, naturally testing aka skipping text and selecting all choices + 2 day whole script in English correction/translation checkups. If I manage to have a stable, but not fully checked and every choice selected version I might post it like that on Patreon if people would like that, might make a poll when the time arrives (basically if ppl want to try Beta that might still have issues or wait for optimal version).
Anyway, it's very close to end but I am busy with midterm exams (1st-9th December) so hard to predict date, will know more in a week. And if any Patron wants a refund for the month of December due to all this slow progress, let me know, I will gladly refund this month and we can work something out.
Comments
Thanks for kind words. The release is definitely this month, I just feel bad as it was supposed to be till December, not in December.
Katana
2021-12-01 15:24:00 +0000 UTCDon't worry about repay for my part. It would be a good idea to have an early release here, so we can see if there are any big errors. For me isn't a gallery so important, I can wait for ep3. I can wish you good luck with your exams, but don't thank me! That will jinx it!
Tarragon
2021-12-01 11:25:13 +0000 UTC
