Spook’s Progress Posting #29 – When the Fox is Away… (Patreon)

Hi-ho, wilder-inos! Another weekend is here, hooray! Hope you all have a great couple of days resting, relaxing and recharging, and I also hope to also be a part of that with a new news hit of awesomeness! In fact, this might be the last update we have for a little while, as by next week we’ll be on the doorstep of Little Toscana once again!

Whoops, I’m getting ahead of myself, aren’t I? We’re so close I can taste Noemi’s cooking though, don’t just believe me, let’s take a look at the numbers and see! Oh, and for serious for a second: Be sure to check out the Misc News this week, there’s an important little page note in there worth a read.

So then, where do we stand on Noemi’s next update after this last week:

Goal: Finish off the remaining Scene 3 are, 31 CGs thereby finishing the art load for the entire version.

Accomplished: Just that, 31 new CGs posed and rendered, completing the version.

It wasn’t a week overachieving this time, but we were spot on the goal and that’s not bad at all! This week was a short one indeed, as between Monday being a Public Holiday (St. Brigit’s Day) and being on nightshift leading to the week starting in the dark hours of Tuesday, it meant a 3-day spread for the last jag of artworking and that’s what we got. 31 CGs in 3 days, hold the onions, woo! So, let’s see how that’s turned into visual delights in our bars!

The hardest work of them all is done. The sexy is put from paper to screen and it’s almost ready to display. Now all that’s left is to make a game out of all the parts in hand, and that’s what I’ll be doing next week! We’re still on for a release window of Feb 17th-21st, likely closer to the front of that zone, or even before, but I’ll leave the gap as is just in case of overflow time. So off we go, just another shove now!

[From This Point On, Beware of Potential SPOILERS]

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Scene 3 was my dinner this week, and so since we’re on our way to serving the full course, I’ll give you a little taster to hold you over. It’s from Frankie’s latest escaped on her side story, but if you think she’s going to be demur and tame with her time in the spotlight, well think again.

As the post title says, “When the Fox is away, the cubs will play!”. (Yes, I know it’s actually cats and mice, but Noemi’s a fox and we all know it).

Being the oldest, most sensible and most reliable, Frankie’s the obvious choice to lead the shop in Noe’s absence, but not all on the team think that’s how best to rate who’s the best waitress in town. If Noe were to know what’s about to happen while she’s away, she’d think twice about leaving… But then again, she’s got her own surprises in store too, so hold tight and lets find out all about it together soon.

Misc News

Some important Patreon page news for you now. You may remember from our Page Roadmap Post recently, now that we’re in February we were to change our page to operate in Euro rather than USD. I started us out on the process this week only to discover a snag in the road on that. As it turns out, if we make the change, Patreon will increase the cut of their fees on us, from 5% to 10%, doubling it. Now that was an unfortunate surprise indeed. If we make the change, it won’t be possible to revert it back to 5% (we could go back to USD, but what good would that do?), so in the spirit of prudence we’ve decided to wait another few weeks to make the change. I’ve opened the discussion on the issue with Unshi, we’ll look at the data a little deeper before we take any jumps. Thanks for holding on and being patient with us on this matter.

The Week Ahead

The biggest and the best week yet, here’s hoping! There’s still a fair bit to do, but here’s the plan from here: Monday – Turning the texts for both Scenes 1 and 2 into game files, setting them up and getting both scenes ready to play. Tuesday – Playtest and read test all of Scene 1, getting it release ready. Wednesday – Finish Scene 3’s Post-Production to break up all the reading, and getting the last of the game admin together. Thursday – Prepping the test and getting Scene 3 to a playtest state. Friday – TBD/Overflow. Just in case somethings take longer than planned, Friday will catch it, and if that’s not needed, playtesting Scene 3.

By this time next week, we should be just needing to get Scene 3 finalized and the game playtested, at which point I might as well push on through the weekend and see if I can’t get’er done by Sunday. If we’re close enough to the plan of this post, and we usually are, then I won’t waste time and tease by hitting you with a progress report next week. If you don’t hear from me by Saturday morning then expect Noemi before the new week! Any other news will be posted to Discord to keep wild folk in the loop.

So that was the week that was #29! Once more around the track then! The oven’s cooking and dinner is almost served, or at least the start on a year of Noemi nasty-goodness! So, until the good times finally come…

Be unsupervised and beWilder!