Developer's Journal 4:34 (Patreon)

Hey everybody.

This week I worked on a scene that's very important to the last few episodes of the game. A scene where the characters get a piece of information about the investigation that I have been dying to share. I like getting those types of scenes done because they really help to fix the bigger picture for me. Working on a story this complex is hard to do alone because I have no one I can discuss it with. Until the playtesters get it, I'm the only person keeping track of what's going on and I'm constantly worried about things like plot holes, ensuring character motivations are adequately expressed, and just general inconsistencies. All of that is harder than it should be because I am getting old and I was never that smart to begin with. Anyway, once the big pieces of information have been put into the game through renders and have been fit in with what's already happened, it's much easier for me to see the path forward.

How much is left to do? It's hard to say how many renders I still need. Malena's content is done. I probably have another 150 renders for one scene with Jamie and 200-250 for two scenes with Emmeline. Perhaps 50 more for Aghavni. And another 150 maybe for general stuff. Problematically most of these scenes are at new locations so those always take longer to set up. There are two scenes that haven't been written yet. And so far we've only finished the animations for one of the episode's four lewd scenes. So there is still quite a lot to do.

But I am working hard and I have made improvements to my workflow that will make things move faster than they did in the early phase of Episode Four.

That's all for this week. Thank you for your support!

--Monk