[Episode Izar] Progress Update XXII (Patreon)

Greetings,

well, not too many positive news, but lets start with them. First round of the review is through and beta will start tomorrow or the day after.

Scripting

I wanted to do episode start a bit different than usually. I wanted to trigger it automatically when entering the room, loading a save-file where you are already in the room or it automatically starts after the previous episode without free roaming in between. Well in theory I already had that implemented. Well I even use it when you start the scene replay with Selene at the pool and choose to go to the next scene replay in her sleep capsule. That's basically the same functionality I wanted to use for the blend from episode 8 to 9. However, that doesn't work quite as smooth as I thought due to variable handling and some Unity internal processes that are asynchron for some reason. It took me quite a while to figure out the problem and to find a fitting workaround. It works now, but a bit different than I wanted it. This took some time to fix, sorry for the technical rambling :)

Music / Sounds

I added quite a few new sound effects and added a bit of functionality to use them better. Should help with the cinematic feeling of some scenes.

I finished one new track and started working on another. I'm pretty happy with it. I tried to make it fit the game but I also think that I could turn it into a club track with some more work on it. But the focus is for the game right now of course.

For the second track I'm having a bit of trouble with the arrangement to make it sound fitting for the scenes I want to use.

The problem is that some scenes are quite short and it doesn't make sense to create a track where only the middle part fits or underlines the scene when you probably won't even reach that part within the dialogue.

Anyway, just some things I try to keep in mind when creating this soundtracks.

Lewd-Scene

Sadly haven't had much time to work on it but progressed a little. The base positions for the animations are laid out and are ready to be tweaked so I should also be able to start rendering them sometime this week.

Injury

I injured my arm this week during sport and the my doctor ordered me to rest my arm... Well, that ain't happening one way or another. To much to do at work and to much to in private life and on this game anyway. But I will have to keep an eye on not making it worse too much....

Poll Result

The winner for the 4K render reward poll is Hulk vs. Black Widow. So, that's something fun that I'll work on in between. This will be a interesting one.

Current Status - Episode Izar

99,9% scripting (new songs are missing)

780 images

2 animations