Work Update - Corrupted Hard Drive! (Patreon)

HOOOOLY ~!

It started with one unreadable file here, then one failed file compression there. On Wednesday, I booted up my computer and went to the hard drive where all my game data and assets were and the drive was unreadable! That's everything - all of my work on HEROES OF CELTICA (besides what is online) and all the past work on STELLAR INCOGNITA.

Two CHKDSKs later, I get into the hard drive and begin a mass exodus of data to alternative storage. Hundreds and hundreds of gigabytes of data from a really old and slow SATA hard drive onto an SSD took a few days. You always hear the advice to back up your work, but it's troublesome and time-consuming, so you don't. I think I got off lucky, with only about a dozen small files lost that can be replaced or substituted with something else.

So, now the ship has been steadied, what's happening this weekend? Two things:

1) I will release HEROES OF CELTICA v0.3.0 to Alpha Slam members (probably on Sunday).2) Working on STELLAR INCOGNITA EX. Remember how I made a buffer of updates for HEROES OF CELTICA? Well, I'm "spending" one of those buffers to get more work done on the images for STELLAR INCOGNITA EX. I've basically planned out the entire story paths, but it's strange to return to a more primitive style of story mapping compared to the extra pre-planning required for CELTICA.