Devlog #52: Flashbacks and Cutaways (Patreon)

Back in the swing of things!Getting back to work has been surprisingly easy. Ideas and renders are flowing, keeping a steady, healthy pace of 35 renders per day.

Specifically, I'm close to finishing Day 1 of the update and tweaked it a bit from the original draft.Pacing felt a bit off, so I'm gonna sneak in some lewds and some text messages to flesh out a couple of things.Also I've cut out some cutaway gags that were already written, again for pacing reasons.Cutaway gags are a powerful tool, but needs moderation and I was overdoing it the beginning of this chapter. I don't wanna end up doing the mistake Family Guy made by being overly reliant on it, so I only kept a couple, the ones that made more sense(though not necessarily the most funny).Also also, I'm experimenting a bit with flashbacks.Things other VNs/other medias do, like instead of having a character talk forever just SHOW what they were going to talk about or show a snippet of the past of a character to inform the scene that follows.Simple things, a bit time consuming 'cause they need completely new scenes to be made, but still relatively simple.It's a bit of a stylistic shift from how I did things in AR1, but we'll see how you, the players, will receive them. Worst case scenario I'll just stop doing them. So, yeah... I feel like I've started rambling earlier than usual, so it's better if I cut this short and get back to rendering.Have a Faith selfie and I'll see y'all next week