SonsOfLiberty

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Hey everyone

I had a bit of a busy week, but I spent every free minute working on renders and managed to make some decent progress after all .

The stats:
  • Writing: 100%
  • Coding: 90%
  • Environments: 75%
  • New Characters: 7/7
  • Background Characters: 24/40
  • Renders: 31%
    • Part 1 (9:00pm): 852/852
    • Part 2 (10:00pm): 253/360
    • Part 3 (11:00pm): 0/550
    • Part 4 (12:30am): 0/750
    • Part 5 (2:00am): 0/500
    • Part 6 (3:00am): 0/600
  • Music/Sound: 0%
  • Testing/Polish: 0%
Release date estimate: July/August 2025

I'm currently preparing the big scene of Part 2. This one is gonna be a challenge mostly in terms of the amount of people that are in it. I'm setting up plenty of background character props, and I'll have to employ some camera angle trickery as well to make this whole thing work, but I'm looking forward to how it'll turn out. And as a little tease for the patrons: The two ladies from the last preview are heavily involved in this scene .
The goal for next week is to finish Part 2. I also want to finally get one of the open bonus renders done (for Silver/Gold members). As you might have noticed, bonus stuff has been sparse recently. I will definitely finish the two renders from the latest request rounds, and I want to do something special for later in the month as well. But apart from that, I'll try to focus 100% on finishing Ep. 6, and minimize work on bonus stuff for a bit. Sorry about that.
When I'm done with Part 2, I also want to take another look at what's left to do, and how to get it all done as efficiently as possible. I'll likely post about my plans in next week's progress report.

❤ Anyways... Thank you all for being here! Have a nice weekend! ❤
 

SonsOfLiberty

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Hey everyone,

I had a bit of a busy week, but I spent every free minute working on renders and managed to make some decent progress after all .

The stats:
Writing: 100%
Coding: 90%
Environments: 75%
New Characters: 7/7
Background Characters: 24/40
Renders: 31%
Part 1 (9:00pm): 852/852
Part 2 (10:00pm): 253/360
Part 3 (11:00pm): 0/550
Part 4 (12:30am): 0/750
Part 5 (2:00am): 0/500
Part 6 (3:00am): 0/600
Music/Sound: 0%
Testing/Polish: 0%

Release date estimate: July/August 2025

I'm currently preparing the big scene of Part 2. This one is gonna be a challenge mostly in terms of the amount of people that are in it. I'm setting up plenty of background character props, and I'll have to employ some camera angle trickery as well to make this whole thing work, but I'm looking forward to how it'll turn out. And as a little tease for the patrons: The two ladies from the last preview are heavily involved in this scene .

The goal for next week is to finish Part 2. I also want to finally get one of the open bonus renders done (for Silver/Gold members). As you might have noticed, bonus stuff has been sparse recently. I will definitely finish the two renders from the latest request rounds, and I want to do something special for later in the month as well. But apart from that, I'll try to focus 100% on finishing Ep. 6, and minimize work on bonus stuff for a bit. Sorry about that.

When I'm done with Part 2, I also want to take another look at what's left to do, and how to get it all done as efficiently as possible. I'll likely post about my plans in next week's progress report.

❤ Anyways... Thank you all for being here! Have a nice weekend! ❤
It is literally the post above yours :rolleyes:

Not sure why people double post the same shit.
 
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SonsOfLiberty

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Are parts 5-6 less difficult than previous ones? Otherwise i dont see how meets the deadline
I'm not sure, they might have just had more things going on IRL and just haven't had as much time to work on it. Or maybe there is a lot more in the update than previous.

But, yeah, there should not be deadlines unless you 100% think you can meet it.
 

AdaWongLina

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Episode 6 - Progress Report #25
Hey everyone
I had a bit of a busy week, but I spent every free minute working on renders and managed to make some decent progress after all :).
The stats:
  • Writing: 100%
  • Coding: 90%
  • Environments: 75%
  • New Characters: 7/7
  • Background Characters: 24/40
  • Renders: 31%
    • Part 1 (9:00pm): 852/852
    • Part 2 (10:00pm): 253/360
    • Part 3 (11:00pm): 0/550
    • Part 4 (12:30am): 0/750
    • Part 5 (2:00am): 0/500
    • Part 6 (3:00am): 0/600
  • Music/Sound: 0%
  • Testing/Polish: 0%

Release date estimate: July/August 2025
I'm currently preparing the big scene of Part 2. This one is gonna be a challenge mostly in terms of the amount of people that are in it. I'm setting up plenty of background character props, and I'll have to employ some camera angle trickery as well to make this whole thing work, but I'm looking forward to how it'll turn out. And as a little tease for the patrons: The two ladies from the last preview are heavily involved in this scene :giggle: .
The goal for next week is to finish Part 2. I also want to finally get one of the open bonus renders done (for Silver/Gold members). As you might have noticed, bonus stuff has been sparse recently. I will definitely finish the two renders from the latest request rounds, and I want to do something special for later in the month as well. But apart from that, I'll try to focus 100% on finishing Ep. 6, and minimize work on bonus stuff for a bit. Sorry about that.
When I'm done with Part 2, I also want to take another look at what's left to do, and how to get it all done as efficiently as possible. I'll likely post about my plans in next week's progress report.

❤ Anyways... Thank you all for being here! Have a nice weekend! ❤

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Jafo

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Hey everyone

Sorry for the late report! I had a pretty stressful week and didn't get all the things done I wanted. I also underestimated the time I would need to craft that last scene of part 2 and how many variants of individual renders I need. The constant loading and hiding of big groups of people in this scene really slows down the workflow unfortunately.

Here's the progress:

Writing: 100%
Coding: 90%
Environments: 75%
New Characters: 7/7
Background Characters: 30/36
Renders: 33%
Part 1 (9:00pm): 852/852
Part 2 (10:00pm): 372/430
Part 3 (11:00pm): 0/550
Part 4 (12:30am): 0/750
Part 5 (2:00am): 0/500
Part 6 (3:00am): 0/600
Music/Sound: 0%
Testing/Polish: 0%

Release date estimate: August 2025
I did make a bunch of new background characters too, and I should be done with those soon. I think one more set of 6 characters will be enough to finally fill the scenes appropriately. There likely won't be any scenes with all these characters visible at once, but it adds some variety and realism if you're not always seeing the same 10 characters in the background.

I also spent some time making concrete plans on how I'm going to finish this episode in due time. I sat down and took another look at the remaining renders and other tasks. Realistically there's no real chance that I'll be done before August, so I corrected the estimated date. I took a look at my availability in the next couple weeks, when I'll get some days off work, etc. I've set myself goals for every week, which will hopefully help getting this thing rapidly closer to the finish line. My goal for now is to finish renders until August, and then take around two more weeks for sound, testing, and polish. So I'm aiming for a start of Early Access around mid August. I don't want to promise too much yet, since the goals I've set for myself are very ambitious, but I'll try my best to work towards that. I also already missed the goal for this week due to some personal stuff (and some miscalculations), so things aren't set in stone unfortunately. Nonetheless, I'm optimistic that I can speed up some more in these coming weeks and finish this looooong awaited episode in due time!

❤ Thank you for your patience and understanding. Have a nice weekend! ❤


 
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