Spook’s Progress Posting #46 – I Know Now Why You Cry. (Patreon)

Hey there and welcome to all you wild ones. It’s been a very eventful week, though not all for the best of reasons. Alas, we’ll touch on that below, the top line is the progress to post about, so let’s talk turkey and Italian delicacies.

Goal: 20-22 New CGs, finishing out the gameplays (including the text side of things) while getting started on Scene 1.

Accomplished: Exactly that. 22 New CGs. The texts for all the gameplays was readied too, but not put into the game yet.

Other events in the back half of the timeframe made it so that I couldn’t get the Post-Production for this week done, it’ll be on the block for next week, and that also means I can’t put the final images into the engine to make them game ready. So then, progress was on target for the most part, but it’s most 3 of the 5 bars getting some growth for this week. Let’s take a look.

Not a bad step forward, but not our usual fair of reaching for the furthest edges. Then again, dealing with the gameplays usually does take longer, which is why I tackle them early, so things are moving well enough. It’s a little odd to see Texts overtake Post-Pro, huh?  Oh, and another thing worth mentioning this week, I’ve officially crossed the 500 CGs mark for the year, meaning we’re well on track still for my personal goal of 1000 new Noemi CGs this year.

As for the rest of the week… Readers of these posts may well remember back in Post #34 (April 10th) I mentioned some personal life news that needed some grappling with. I’ll rip off the band-aid and just tell y’all, that week my father was given a terminal diagnosis. This week, he past on. I didn’t want to make it into a whole thing that would shake confidence, and as y’all can see despite taking plenty of time to care for him in his last months/weeks, I also managed to put out a whole version, make 188 CGs, write up about 80 more during the writing experiment week and keep this posts going, so this is not a sky is falling moment. It’s just a tough and sad one for me, for a while.

When I first created Noe’s story, I knew in my head the pain of loss that comes with a father’s passing, as reflected by Noe herself over the course of the game. Today, I feel the pain with my heart, not just my head. As the post’s title says, “I know now why you cry”. But like Noe, I’ll put myself back into my work soon enough and keep going. It’s a sad day, but it was his time. Life will go on. As Billy Joel sings in “Allentown” (also in Pennsylvania), “It’s hard to keep a good man down… But I won’t be getting up today…”.

[From This Point On, Beware of Potential SPOILERS]

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I’m sure y’all will understand if I keep things short from here. Still, my problems aren’t yours to bare, so I still want to show you a little spark of the progress made this week and stir up a little tease to please.

Noe’s really on the back foot after her back alley bashing with Beck, so she’d better have an ace up her sleeve this time. But as Sal knows all to well, you can never count Noemi out, and she’s already got Beck nervous about what’s to come next. Can you figure what her plan to win the next match will be?

The Week Ahead

Needless to say, next week won’t be a very productive one, but I still want to keep things moving so we’ll see what comes of it. Tuesday is the funeral services, and as his only son I’ll have a part to plan in it. Between readying for all that, some other family duties, and just taking a few moments to myself along the way, it’ll be Thursday most likely before I’m back at the PC to work. My goal for this week is to get all the gameplays into the game in working order, nailing that side of things down for this version. That’s Post-Pro on 14 images, finalize he texts in XML, set up all the code and get them tested. Anything beyond that will be extra, if anything more comes of it. It’s my hopes and plan to be back to a proper week’s worth of Noe and co the following week, so we can get closer and closer to a new release. There’s a rollercoaster ahead of me though and a lot can happen to the human spirit in 10 days, so hang tight and let’s see.

So that was the week that was #46! Progress is progress and I’m glad to have had it. I’m starting into the next bout with Beck on Noemi’s misadventure, so here’s to some serious mischief and more around the poker table! Until then…

Be at peace, and beWilder!