Weekly update 23/2021 (Patreon)

Dear, supporters!

This week I finally managed to rerender the old Donald scenes that were bothering me for the past 6 months. That is done and I consider image transfer from RPG to Renpy finished. Also did backups and my work is safe.

Most importantly! I have my render plan for v0.8.

As you know I had decided to bring a more sustainable balance in my life. And I promised that I will come up with my decision this week. I have had an exchange with some of you during the last couple of weeks and some of you know what it is. 

Just 2 things: 

a) slow down by reducing the daily hours I spend with the project. And dedicate most of my weekends to the things that matter in life. I tried last weekend and it turned out that my family are pretty nice people :)

Reduction is a bit more than 1/3 of the time. Luckily the work I do for a living is done from my home office. And it is not because of the pandemic. It takes some 6 hours a day so still, after the reduction, I will be able to spend significant enough time with this project.

b) sadly for some of you, I will refuse from RPG. This will save some time and will allow me to concentrate on fewer things.

All together is some 1/3 increase in production time. Instead of aiming for the update once in 2 months, it will be once in 3.

This means that I must reduce the number of spoilers I am giving out at the end of the rendering week. Earlier I made about 60-90 pictures per week. If in future if I will make 40 pictures weekly, giving out 12 of them would make more than 25%. It would spoil surprises.  I will switch back to approx 6 like it was before. But I will think of adding some other benefit to the Project Manager tier.

Also, I will remove from my page my goal of 600$. Actually, in January I invested another thousand eur in additional hardware. So this is not relevant for some while.

About v0.8

It will cover the next 2 game days and contain approximately the same amount of renders as v0.7. Probably even more.

Here are some story spoilers for v0.8:

Gunnar will take his revenge for the slap. Laura will have an unexpected visitor in her new job. And I will start a storyline with the new detective.

Also, I want to have hidden events on each map. Like it was in v0.7 City Centre morning + 1 repeatable event at home + change repeatable events that already are there.

When to expect? I have my plan set for each day. But I do not know how it will work in real life. My calendar shows 10.09.2021.  Maybe earlier, but I can not promise that now. Will see.

In the name of Laura thanks for supporting the project! Because of you, Laura can eat cakes.

P.S. The picture is NOT from the game!

Regards,

Nemiegs.