dude, please dont burn out yourself. :-*
No worries! This is pretty typical for my dev cycle. The first two months are mostly writing, setting up scenes, etc. followed by a month of casual rendering, and then one of frantic work.
That said, I am planning to take a month or two off, following the reboot of Chapter One. That's a little ways out still, but at that time I'd like to pause my Patreon/SubStar, and take some time to myself. Between the day job, game development, and managing the social media component of FiN, I do get a bit fatigued. :'D Plus, I'd like some time to work on comics, and my prose novel.
It's funny, all three games are about the characterization more than anything, the writing of the dialogue mixed with the reactivity of the characters in response. Neon Ghosts could teach a class on that. Maybe should, after finishing this game, of course. Heh
That's terribly kind, thank you. I'm always very flattered when people connect with the writing and characterization.
With this upcoming episode have a decent amount of Gabby content? Cause we haven't seen much of her in the last few updates.
So, the original plan for this update was basically to end with a non-sexual Gabby scene. As was set up previously, MC needs to go bail her dad out of jail. So, the sequence of events was basically going to be..
- One of several possible openings, with Nicki, Ashe, Risa/Carolina, or MC alone.
- A Brittani scene.
- An extended Risa scene.
- An Alex scene.
- A Mason scene.
- Gabby's scene.
And of course there's several smaller scenes of MC dealing with this or that. Unfortunately, I underestimated exactly how much work it'd be to do those opening scenes. As a result, I'm over 500 renders in, and haven't even gotten to Risa's stuff yet.
Soooo.. I'm working towards the goal of getting through everything but Mason and Gabby's scene, and doing another Part One/Part Two release. As a result, Part One will likely be 800+ renders, and Part Two will likely be around 350+. I'd rather hold off and do everything at once, but I don't like the idea of waiting too long between updates. So, Part One on the 25th, and Part Two for late January - mid February?
But, I miss Gabby, and I think her first set of big scenes will be worth the wait. :3