Progress Update: ALL ANIMATIONS ACCOMPLISHED (Patreon)

Alright!  As of today:

Acts I, II, and III are DONE.

Act IV is ALMOST DONE. (art is done, just need to put spritesheets into the game)

Here's a compilation of animations – modified to avoid spoilers! – from Acts III and IV:

Also, here's a sneak listen at a musical track from Act III:

🎵 Adventures with Anxiety - The Wolf Who Cried Wolf (mp3) 🎵

And as always, the Progress Update Diagram:

Rough Estimate: AwA is 80% done, and will launch 6 weeks from now.

You know what's "funny"? For the last several Progress Updates, I've been making progress at exactly 10% per three weeks. However, I always hoped/rationalized that my progress would get faster as I picked up momentum.

Which was why I first estimated AwA would launch start-of-August... then end-of-August... and now, mid-September... which is what I should have estimated from the very beginning, if I took my "10% per 3 weeks" rate seriously.

Moral of the story: my Progress Updates are way more accurate than I am.

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What's Left To Do:

• Act IV: Spritesheet integration
• All acts: final sound effects
• Auto-save & Continue Game feature
• Credits (ok, there's more art & animation for this)
• A page with some mental health resources (focused on anxiety)
• A not-terrible process for fans to translate/localize the game
• FINAL ROUND OF PLAYTESTS
• Polish polish polish!
• Presskit (Videos, GIFs)
• RELEASE INTO THE WILD
• Mad rush to submit it to the 2020 Independent Games Festival

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Aside #1: During my downtime, I try to learn new stuff. In the last 3 weeks, I read Arbital's full guide to Bayes' Theorem, discovered McAdams' psychological model of Life Stories (pdf), and read a bunch of papers about Eudaimonia (vs Hedonia) and empirical studies on Meaning In Life. I may or may not make edu-things about these in the future, but they'll definitely influence how I make sense of the world, humanity, and myself.

Aside #2: I found a room to rent! Thank you all so much to everyone who offered to help re: my desperate request in the last Progress Update.

See y'all again soon! 💖

🐺,
~ Nicky Case