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Hey guys,
I want you to know what has happened recently...
About a week ago, my PC did crash and I faced a blue screen. After several restarts and working my way through the bios (which didn't help), I tried to get into the recovery settings, which wasn't possible as well. Of course the more I did run out of options, the more I was flying into panic mode. If I can't get at least all my data saved, I'm completey screwed.
With no more options left, I decided to call the repair service. Luckily he was coming by the same day and we began to save whatever we could.
Long story short, the good news is that, despite I have lost several hundred Gigabyte of my data, I was able to save all data belonging to my game, Alenja's Adventures. And by a country mile this is the most important part.
Nonetheless, the only solution left was to completely reformat the harddrive, removing windows and all data left on it and then set up the system as new.
Which means whatever is gone, is completely gone and I can only hope I don't face any trouble in the future, when I realise I forgot to backup something important before we did reformating the harddrive.
The thing is, the repair service is very expensive and with every hour gone by it got even more expensive. To be more precise, saving several hundred Gigabyte via USB takes a lot of time, which means the longer it takes, the more I have to pay the service man from money that I don't have. Because of that I needed to priorities which data to save. And of course, the project is right up that list.
Since then I'm busy reinstalling all the stuff that I need for work. Despite the 3D programm itself, I also need to re-download and reinstall all the 3D assests I have bought over the years. And of course many other programms as well, like Photoshop and stuff. All of that takes a lot of time.
So the conclusion is, I have lost around a weeks time, several hundred euros to pay the repair service and a lot of of nerves along the way.
I still face some smaller issues here and there. Things that I need to work on the game. Many of those issues aren't that big of a problem, but they still take time to solve.
For instance, I do a lot of post production to get the very best out of every render. What you guys see is just the end product, which is often day and night in comparison to what the untouched render looks like. Especialy things like artefacts, noise or clipping issues are very time consuming to get rid of. And because all of those things are individually and differ from render to render, they need to be taken care of by hand.
But enough of that, I don't want to digress too much.
So lets end this post with some good news, if you will.
Despite ALL this trouble above, I was able to save all the games data, my system is now running again, and all the smaller issues I still have, I'm confident to solve going forward.
Now to the most important part for you guys.
It's a bit too soon to give you an exact release date for the next update, BUT I can confidently say that, if there aren't any big unforseen issues happen, I will release v0.19 Final in the first half of april. Sorry that it takes a bit longer this time around. I wish I could speed things up :/
Thank you all very much for your patience and support! This means a lot to me! Really!
I hope every single one of you is having a fantastic day!