- Aug 18, 2019
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I was wrong. So Halloween will be in this episode. It pleases!Ever since day one of this project, I've wanted to create the Halloween episode, and I'm euphoric right now as I'm doing it. I've been going over my old notes for the episode, laughing at jokes I forgot that I wrote years ago, and smiling at events that I know will be in the episode. I'm looking forward to making this episode as grand as I've pictured it.
Too much.Aside from writing and posing animations, I've been preparing close to 50-60 characters for the episode.
So, do I understand correctly, in a few weeks of parallel development, he has already written more dialogues and code than in the released Interlude?The progress in numbers is roughly 200 static renders and 8 animations. Moreover, I've written more dialogue and code than the Interlude has already.
This is good news. Creating an environment for free-roams usually take a lot of time. So Pink managed to optimize the time for such a routine.I've prepared the environments for the first free-roam and even rendered and processed them. Free-roams usually take the most time to create out of everything, so it feels extra good that there's a chunk of progress made here already.
This was clear from the very end of episode 8. Branching is a complicated thing.Branching is always something I enjoy creating, and it's among the trickier things to accomplish with this type of game. Everything needs to make sense, no matter which branch you're playing, and to make it interesting; the branches need to be different and show how choice can matter.
In addition, it is unclear how branching with Others will work. Will one branch split into several others? Pink wrote that he wants to make the content of one branch equal in size to the content of the other. The difficulty of the Other branches is that there are several characters in it, each of which has a mini-plot.
For example, Quinn has his own route. At the end of episode 8, it looks like Lily, Riona and Zoey will have their own ways. How will this be implemented? Will it just separate the path of Others to several parallel branches independent of each other?
So, he wants to make the episode shorter than usual, he doesn't know how.As I've mentioned before, I'm trying to limit the episode size a tad, and I chose the episode I've been looking forward to a lot to do it with - which is a challenge.
P.S. I still hope for August. Judging by the update, the speed of its work has increased.