ONE STEP CLOSER TO 0.6.1.5
Good evening,
It’s a bit later than usual today, I wanted to finish editing the last few images before writing this report. So, here’s a short summary of what I’ve been working on this week.
As I mentioned last Friday, I finally wanted to start working on the scene for Lyvia, Tia, and Bianca. After spending some time figuring out how I wanted to structure it, I began working on the animations. In total, I created 9 animations plus transitions. From those nine, I recorded different camera angles and then edited all the images, and as I mentioned, I was still working on the last of those just a short while ago.
And even though I’ve been working on this scene all week, I still feel like it’s not quite complete. I built everything in a very modular way so that the scene will work regardless of whether only one, two, or all three of the women are present. However, because of this flexibility, I couldn’t include multiple positions, otherwise I’d probably still be working on it now. The same goes for foreplay, I’m considering expanding the scene later, meaning for the 0.6.2.0 release, not the 0.6.1.5 one that I want to finish soon. For now, the scene will serve as a way to invite the three women over to the MC’s house, and once 0.6.2.0 is done, it will also be used for the inns where the MC can spend the night with them.
Now that the images for the scene are mostly finished, the question is what’s left to do to complete the 0.6.1.5 update. First, I need to implement this scene along with its dialogues. Then I need to write alternative texts for the first visit to Bjorn’s tavern in case Kate isn’t present. After that, the MC has to be transitioned to Kirlic, Kirlic itself still needs to be brought to life with NPCs moving around depending on the time of day, and the inn there needs to be fully implemented so that characters can interact inside it. this will also require some introduction of course.
When I list it all like that, I doubt I’ll be able to finish everything by next Friday. I’ll still do my best, but based on experience, I think it’s unrealistic. Especially since I’ll probably have to create a few more transition images while writing the scene, which always happens.
I’d like to be more optimistic with this estimate, but I think it’s better to be honest than to raise expectations and then fall short. We will see how far I've gotten by next Friday, by then I have hopefully a lot better news.
For now, I’m a bit exhausted, working on animations always takes a lot out of me. So it’s good that the weekend is here and I can recharge a bit.
With that said, I wish you all a relaxing weekend!